Filed under: media | Tags: Alesha Dixon, Mambo, Music, The Boy Does Nothing
Not a Song of the Week, but this mambo piece by Alesha Dixon is a lot of fun….
Filed under: media | Tags: "Falling Away", "Jupiter Rising", Music, Song of the Week
This week’s Song of the Week is ‘Falling Away’ by LA’s Jupiter Rising, a hip-hop duo made up of veteran San Diego musician Spencer Nezey and vocalist Jessie Payo. They describe the music as “state of the art pop, with clever twists”.
Their album, ‘The Quiet Hype’ will be available March 17th.
Filed under: media | Tags: "About You Now", "Miranda Cosgrove", Song of the Week, Sugarbabes
Just because it annoys me when labels release bad covers and promote them….
The Sugarbabes had a hit in the UK with ‘About You Now’ which was a song of the week in October ‘07. The cover is by Miranda Cosgrove, Nickelodeon’s answer to Disney teen/tween roster and star of the Nickelodeon series iCarly. The track would fade into the woodwork, except of course Cosgrove’s label has decided to make it the title track on the album and push it hard on the entertainment TV circuit.
The original has some great backdrop in London, better musical performance, and better visual performance, but that’s my opinion… You be the judge.
They won MTVU’s Freshmen Five a couple of weeks ago, and look like a band with the legs to become a success. The Freshman Five entry was their video for Turn Me Off. Below you can sample their single ‘Paper Face’ which is a little more frenetic but no less worthy.
The band was formed in 2002 and has evolved into a four piece band from its original two. 2008 brought a series of higher profile gigs, and it looks like the band is starting to crack into the mainstream with appearances at SXSW and NoisePop.
You can hear more at their MySpace page.
from Lenore Skenazy’s article on AdAge today…she says smartphones over and over to be politically correct, but every concrete example is an iPhone or iTouch….
“Is it just my kid, or is every child over the age of 8 carrying around a smartphone that’s making him dumb?
That’s what I’ve been wondering ever since my 12-year-old saved up his money for the do-it-yourself lobotomy known as the iPod Touch. (Yes, I know it’s not actually a phone. Same point.) This is a boy who used to pick up whatever book I was reading and read it faster. “Now what do you like to do?” I asked.
“Well,” he smiled. “I like to listen to funny sounds.”
“Funny?”
“You know — farts.” (read the full article)
Filed under: media
Old, but I just saw this posted on Facebook and had to pass it along…..
…oh why the heck would I re-post the bad and the ugly?
The funniest (Sorry, Guy Slapstick does it for me….)
The most inspiring
Best use of John Elway in a commercial…finally
