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My long-time friend and fellow music freak John “JP” Palmer is now working the 4-6am free-form programming slot on Tampa’s WMNF 88.5 Community Radio. This probably provides him a bit more satisfying creative outlet than his day job as a Bank Vice-President…at least, I assume it must to make the hours worth it.

Luckily, the [...]

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007. Posted in Family and Friends, Music | No Comments »>

Magnetic ribbons

The Asylum Street Spankers’ tribute to magnetic ribbons is brilliant.� Love these guys.� Watch some of their other ones while you’re there.

Saturday, August 4th, 2007. Posted in Humor, Music | No Comments »>

Noble creatures

The Gourds are back with a new record and fancy new website. I’m a sucker for their obtuse mashup of traditional American music and obtuse lyrics. You gotta love a record that starts out: “Jammin’ on the old cartoons with the swagger of the immune, Sleeping like a fat racoon - diabetic on [...]

Friday, July 13th, 2007. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Man, Elvis is cool!

Elvis is so drippingly cool that I really found myself enjoying the superficially catastrophic pairing of his archive footage with Celine Dion on American Idol last night. Wow.

Thursday, April 26th, 2007. Posted in Music, TV | No Comments »>

Free acoustic guitar ringtones

I’ve intended to do this for a while, but tonight I actual sat down for a few minutes and did it. Here for your listening pleasure, are a couple of quickie acoustic guitar ringtones. I gated them down and mixed them for looping. They probably don’t sound spectacular on a good speaker, [...]

Friday, March 2nd, 2007. Posted in Ringtones | 1 Comment »>

My year in music, 2006

The biggest and best things in my musical life this year are more about the distribution channel than the music. The first is eMusic, the second Pandora.

If you are a regular music consumer, ie, not a casual listener, but a person who regularly explores and purchases music, you need to get an eMusic account [...]

Thursday, December 28th, 2006. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Chatham County Line: Route 23

Artist: Chatham County Line Album: Route 23 Rating: 5 out of 5 Media: CD Genre: Bluegrass Favorite songs Parlor Light Route 23 While not the newest record, Route 23 is the best thing I’ve dug up with my new eMusic membership. I love bluegrass, but I often find the song writing rather dry. So many [...]

Sunday, December 10th, 2006. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

RIP, CBGBs

I’ve posted about the CBGBs saga before, but it’s appeared that the end is near. Actually, I think it’s perfect that they are going to take everything out and build a replica of the original in Las Vegas. That’s just so strangely ironic, yet cool, at the same time. The home of [...]

Monday, October 16th, 2006. Posted in Misc, Music | No Comments »>

Jackie Greene: Sweet Somewhere Bound

Sweet Somewhere Bound Artist: Jackie Green Rating: 5 out of 5 Media: CD Genre: Folk Rock Favorite songs Emily’s in Heaven My friend John Palmer introduced me to this record on a trip to Florida in February, and it’s been a favorite even since. It didn’t really grab me until the 3rd or 4th listen, [...]

Thursday, May 11th, 2006. Posted in Music | 1 Comment »>

Music: Let Her Go

This one still needs some work, but I haven’t posted any tunes of mine in a while, so I figured I’d go ahead an throw it up. So, without further ado, my GarageBand rendition of the Louvin Brother’s Let Her Go.

[audio:Greg_Pierce_Let_Her_Go.mp3]

Monday, April 24th, 2006. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Fun job

My friend Jim just IM’d me…"Hey, I’m on Jeff Tweedy’s tour bus." That’s Jeff Tweedy of Wilco.

"O," I say, "is it nice?"

"Yea, 42 inch plasmas in the bunk beds. How can you have wireless Internet in a moving bus?"

His job definitely seems more fun than mine at the moment.

Friday, February 3rd, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends, Music | No Comments »>

Pandora

Pandora is the best music-related technology I’ve run into in a long time. Simply put, it’s custom streaming radio based on your musical tastes. Doesn’t sound that revolutionary, but the “Music Genome” project underneath it does a really good job of coming up with new music that fits your tastes, based on seed [...]

Monday, January 9th, 2006. Posted in Music, Technology | No Comments »>

Jon Kulp: Conciones para ninos

On a note tangentially related to my previous post regarding the Library of Congress, my friend Jon Kulp, whom was the other “fellow” in the Music Division when I was was there, has released a set of MP3s of new recordings of one of his song-cycles. It’s an excellent performance of some quite beautiful [...]

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends, Music | No Comments »>

Five Little Monkeys

Here’s a bit of GarageBand fun I did with the boys a couple of weeks ago: Five Little Monkeys. As usual, certified loop-free.

[audio:Greg_Pierce_Five_Little_Monkeys.mp3]

Friday, December 16th, 2005. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

MPFreaker and AudioFaucet

MPFreaker (Mac only) is a way cool app that searches a variety of Internet sources to locate the correct information and artwork for the songs in your MP3 collection, then updates the tags with that info. Sweet.

Also, the beta of AudioFaucet is finally out. It’s a renamed and updated version of iSeeiTunes, which [...]

Friday, September 23rd, 2005. Posted in Music, TV, Technology, TiVO | No Comments »> « Previous Entries