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Category Archives: Music
Daily Links for Friday, October 23, 2009 – Early Edition
Software Nokia: Apple iPhone Violates Our Patents BusinessWeek / Jack Ewing and Arik Hesseldahl The Finnish handset giant said Oct. 22 it has filed suit against Apple (AAPL) in U.S. District Court in Delaware, accusing its California-based rival of infringing … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Bruce Springsteen, Linux, Nokia, Patents, Ubuntu
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Daily Links for Tuesday, October 13, 2009 – Springsteen Edition
Music Springsteen plays last show at Giants Stadium National Public Radio (NPR) Many photos of the last show are included with this article. Friday night’s show – which drew nearly 60,000 people and lasted for more than three hours – … Continue reading
Daily Links for Thursday, October 1, 2009
Open Source The Linux Foundation Announces Second Annual End User Summit The Summit will take place November 9-10, 2009 at the Hyatt Jersey City on the Hudson and will provide end users and kernel developers a direct connection to one … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, September 16, 2009 – Morning Edition
Open Source Is Cloud Computing Killing Open Source? ebizQ / Andre Yee Depending on the cloud computing service, I find that open source is complementary, rather than competitive with the cloud based model. If that’s true, even though cloud computing … Continue reading
Dylan to play three nights in Chicago at the end of October
The Fall, 2009, tour schedule for Bob Dylan is up on his website and it includes three nights at the Aragon Ballroom (1106 W Lawrence, Chicago, IL 60640) in Chicago October 29, 30, and 31. What better way to spend … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 28, 2009 – Lunchtime Edition
Macintosh Why Snow Leopard Is Truly Disruptive Forbes.com / Brian Caulfield Here’s the breakthrough: Apple’s ( AAPL – news – people ) OS X, Snow Leopard, which goes on sale Friday, uses less code than its predecessor to do the … Continue reading
From CNN: “McCartney performs on Ed Sullivan Theater roof”
Paul McCartney and band played over the marquee to the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City before appearing on the David Letterman show. CNN video includes “Get Back” and “Back in the U.S.S.R.”. Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN … Continue reading
Springsteen masterpieces, Take 1
Next week I’m going to see Bruce Springsteen in Chicago and I thought I would do a few things in the days leading up to it related to his albums and songs, as time permits. Today I’m going to start … Continue reading
Bob Dylan US Summer tour
Bob Dylan, along with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp, will be playing minor league baseball stadiums in the US this summer. We saw him at the Rochester (NY) Red Wings stadium a couple of years ago and it was a … Continue reading
Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday party bash at Madison Square Garden
On May 3, 2009, Madison Square Garden in New York City will host a 90th birthday “singalong” party for Pete Seeger. According to an email I received, musical guests will include Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder, John … Continue reading
Springsteen on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Last night Bruce Springsteen went on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the result was a whole lot more upbeat than last week’s engagement with Jim Cramer. The interview bordered on hero worship but, with Springsteen, I totally get … Continue reading
Bob Dylan to release new album in late April
Rolling Stone is reporting that Bob Dylan will release a new, and yet unnamed, album in late April. According to the article, the record has “a seductive border-cafe feel (courtesy of the accordion on every track) and an emphasis on … Continue reading
Springsteen announces US tour
Bruce Springsteen has announced his Spring, 2009, tour dates in support of his new album “Working on a Dream”. Also see the New York Times article “The Rock Laureate” by Jon Pareles.
Lunchtime distraction: Flight of the Conchords songs
My daughter is seven years older than my son, meaning that even though he is quite independent, she has a very strong cultural influence on him. Thus he knows more about Bob Dylan than your average 11 year old. When … Continue reading
Introducing the events calendar
Two year’s ago when my wife Judith was running for the New York State Assembly, I wrote a simple events calendar for her website to keep track of all the local meetings, parades, and county fairs where she would be … Continue reading
Joe Satriani vs. Coldplay
I like Coldplay, I really do. Part of this is because my son loves Coldplay, and so I listen to them a lot with him. Guitarist Joe Satriani, no slouch in his own right, has sued Coldplay for copyright infringement, … Continue reading
Daily Links 12/01/2008 (p.m.)
Bob Dylan | Shop the Bob Dylan Official Store You can never have too much. tags: OB, Bob Dylan, music, clothes Jungle Disk – Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3 – JungleDisk “Jungle Disk Desktop Edition lets you store files and … Continue reading
Swedish pop music 24/7
Last week my wife and daughter went to see the Mamma Mia! movie, based on the musical based on the songs of ABBA. A few days after that, my wife took me to see it, warning that “it’s not good … Continue reading
Song of the Day
Is … World Party‘s “Is It Like Today?,” which you can hear on Last.fm. New band (to me) of the day is The Submarines, if only for their interesting backstory, though their music is growing on me. Hear them on … Continue reading
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Old Crow Medicine Show to perform 3 shows in the UK in September
I’ve previously spoken here of the great group The Old Crow Medicine Show, most recently last July when we saw them from right in front of the stage at the Water Street Music Hall in Rochester, NY. It looks like … Continue reading
Open Blog Rerun: “#1. Starting your Bob Dylan musical library”
Since I’m traveling this week and not likely to post much, I’ve scheduled some entries like this to point to some of my personal favorite blog writings. Here’s today’s blog blast from the past. Title: “#1. Starting your Bob Dylan … Continue reading
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Open Blog Rerun: “Starting with the guitar, part 1: Basic considerations”
Since I’m traveling this week and not likely to post much, I’ve scheduled some entries like this to point to some of my personal favorite blog writings. Here’s today’s blog blast from the past. Title: “Starting with the guitar, part … Continue reading
Dylan to play Prospect Park in Brooklyn on August 12
Bob Dylan will be playing at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn, NY, on Tuesday, August 12. See the bottom of the tour page at bobdylan.com for the TicketMaster link and early purchase password.
Mike and Ruthie
Two members of one of my favorite indie bands The Mammals have recently gone off on their own and 1) gotten married, 2) had a baby, and 3) made an album, though I’m not quite sure of the order. Anyway, … Continue reading
Album of the Day – Then Again: A Retrospective
Then Again: A Retrospective (emusic) by Martha and the Muffins. I first heard this Canadian group in college and I still remember their sound, which is mixed in my mind to some extent with that of groups like the Talking … Continue reading
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links for 2008-03-19
Rolling Stone : Bruce Springsteen Parties Like It’s 1978 During Stellar Long Island Show “Last night at Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum, Springsteen didn’t debut any new songs or dust off any gems, but he did put on a thrilling two … Continue reading
Springsteen on my mind
I keep thinking about the Bruce Springsteen concert that my wife I and I saw in Rochester, NY, a couple of weeks ago. It was terrific, it was memorable, it was one of the best musical experiences of my life. … Continue reading
Springsteen in Rochester
Last night my wife and I went up to the Bruce Springsteen concert at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester. The concert was sold out, as are most of the others that I know of that are taking place soon. … Continue reading
Bruuuuce!
Springsteen, that is. I’m going to see him in concert tonight with the E Street Band. I last saw him in 1984 or 85 during the Born in the USA tour in Hartford, Connecticut. Personally, he’s one of my heroes, … Continue reading
Dylan touring in Mexico and South America in the next month
See the Bob Dylan tour schedule.
