Danny Novo
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Neat how the iTunes music store lets you — This is fascinating. Guided selections for artists or genres in the iTunes Music Store. That is, they present you with (someone’s opinion of) the basic songs for the artist or genre, next steps, and deep cuts. It’s a little hard to find in iTunes, but if […]
So we’re coming home from Target, listening to the iPod in the car, and at one point the five year-old pipes up from the backseat, “Why is he the only one that could ever teach her?” Bonus points for identifying the song without using Google.
Million Miles, by J.Ralph (then going by the name SPY), just cycled through on iTunes, and brought to mind my second favorite VW commercial ever, called “Big Day,” in which the song is prominently featured. The commercial is a gem. It tells a spellbinding story, unspooling perfectly, with an unexpected twist and an uncertain ending. […]
So this last week on American Idol was a bad one. Nobody sang particularly well, the songs were not particularly memorable, Brooke got fewer votes than Jason, and then… then there was Dolly Parton. I know she’s a legend. I know she’s written over 3,000 songs, and even wrote the Whitney Houston signature song, “I Will […]
Hello, visitors from the Intarwebs. You grace my site with search queries about the SXSW Music conference, and I have decided to give you what you want: Here is a link to the cover art I made for the SXSW 2008 music. You may use this cover art (a 600 x 600 pixel jpg file) however […]
So YouTube is busy celebrating April 1st by Rickrolling all the Featured Videos on their front page. How fun, I thought, I haven’t seen Rick Astley since, well, the Eighties. So, at breakfast, I visited YouTube and clicked on a video about a monkey. Sure enough, there was Rick, singing in his too-deep tones with […]
