A Few Internet Must Sees for Music Fans
By davidhall
Some of us have lives (AKA commuting, working nine-to-five, commuting some more, etc…) and some of us spend most of our time (to our paychecks’ dismay) surfing the web for all the free and entertaining music tidbits we can get our hands on. For those of you in the latter category who haven’t yet scored your fix for today, here are some starting points:
- Are you one of those music fans who loves a visual element to go along with your all-American music (I know I’m a fan of picture books)? If your answer if, ‘By God, I do love pictures with my music!’, then check out this sweet four-part illustrated show review (sample shown above) by artist Ariel Kitch of Alela Diane and Blitzen Trapper playing at Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis. Seriously, this is an awesome concept – we need more sketch artists doing show reviews!
- Ground control to Cat Power fans, this one’s for you. If you haven’t been flipping channels during TV commercials, you might have heard none other than Chan Marshall (AKA Cat Power) singing David Bowie‘s “Space Oddity” over a new ad for Lincoln’s 2009 MKS. So far, we’ve only got the clip available (below), but cross your fingers that this rendition ends up on another cover album from Marshall! Great choice…
- Speaking of artists, if you are one and you want to get a jump-start working in the music industry, enter The Decemberists‘ poster design contest for their NPR showcase at Stubb’s during South by Southwest in Austin, TX (March 18), which will mark the first time that the band plays their new album, “The Hazards of Love,” in its entirety. So what are you waiting for? Check out the guidelines and get crackin’ on your latest music-inspired masterpiece!
- If you were planning a listening party for U2‘s new album, “No Line on the Horizon,” when they stream it for unlimited listen this Sunday (Feb. 22) on UK’s Spotify, pick up the phone now and tell your friends that the party has been moved to tonight! Due to an inadvertent slip by Universal Music Australia that made the band’s record available for digital purchase more than a week before its release, U2 is streaming the record on their MySpace RIGHT NOW! So much for all U2′s efforts to keep it under wraps, but kudos to the Irishmen for stepping up to the plate when a curve ball is thrown their way.
