http://www.vintage.beautiful-contradiction.org all music, all the time Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:10:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Remember how I posted about Muxtape biting the dust due to RIAA interference? Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have a successor (who copies much of Mux's coding, and completely acknowledges that fact). The rebellion continues. Please direct yourselves to this lovely little link: Opentape.fm This blog is in no way affiliated with ... http://www.vintage.beautiful-contradiction.org/78 I am kind of at a loss as to what to write about these days, since I haven't seen any shows and I haven't picked up any records. Heaven forbid, I know. However, one exciting thing remains: Neil Young has announced a North American tour in late fall, and I ... http://www.vintage.beautiful-contradiction.org/76 Pitchfork Media reports that John Lydon of the Sex Pistols, better known as Johnny Rotten, got a little physical last weekend at the Summercase festival. Apparently, Lydon attacked Kele Okereke of Bloc Party after a racist tirade and left the singer "bruised and bloody". Lydon alleges that Okereke is making up ... http://www.vintage.beautiful-contradiction.org/71 A few things I have been thinking about lately: Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is an awesome song. It's #217 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - a list which is, of course, biased toward American and British acts, left out various influential artists, and includes nothing before 1940, but ... http://www.vintage.beautiful-contradiction.org/66 I am not getting any real work done, so I might as well write a post. Here is the second half of my folk festival ramblings! Saturday & Sunday: Workshops The awesome thing about the weekends at the Calgary Folk Music Festival is that the daytimes - 10:30 in the morning until ... http://www.vintage.beautiful-contradiction.org/61 In case you haven't been following, here's the first post about this. The Matchstick Zune program is wrapping up shortly and so I am going to toss a few more comments in here while I can. I might actually have to make a switch to the Zune because my Zen ... http://www.vintage.beautiful-contradiction.org/60 I've been following my blog stats quite religiously lately, and they have consistently been telling me this bewildering piece of information: My top search engine hit is for pony da look. That's right. People searching for this band are finding my site; I believe I've only mentioned them once, in ... http://www.vintage.beautiful-contradiction.org/59 In case you haven't been keeping up lately (shame!), I ran a mini-contest, for nothing but bragging rights, involving being able to recognize the birth names of popular musicians who are better known by their stage names. You can check out the original post right here. Major props go to ... http://www.vintage.beautiful-contradiction.org/58 The four days are over and I have the most killer tan. This would probably be more useful if I wasn't brown to begin with, but you know how it is. Thursday Things got rolling with the Master Musicians of Jajouka, at best an unconventional way to start the festival. The group ... http://www.vintage.beautiful-contradiction.org/53 The Calgary Folk Music Festival starts this afternoon! Check out the website for more info, and follow my Twitter for updates. Reviews will follow the festival. Let's get this party started! http://www.vintage.beautiful-contradiction.org/52