Yesterday, it was announced that Spotify will tightly integrate with Facebook. That’s great for sharing music, but if you want to buy music instead of just taste-testing on Spotify, then you should really check out the Amazon.com MP3 Store.
Continue reading → Piping New Music: From Amazon to iTunes to Google Music to Spotify
I just spent the last four days continuously uploading all my music to the Amazon Cloud Player. I had previously spent days uploading all my music to Google Music Beta. Now I have my entire iTunes library backed up in two separate places. I like the Amazon music upload interface better than Google’s because you are updated every moment about the status of your uploaded songs.
I signed up for Spotify on Friday, and after only a few days of use, I’m ready to forsake my years with Pandora and iTunes. Spotify covers those music services with ease and then beats them in the belly of the very beast in which they long to live: Customizability and Variety. With the $10.00USD a month Premium version of Spotify, I can stream high bit rate music and download 3,333 songs each to three separate portable devices like an iPad or an iPhone for non-streaming, offline, listening. The Spotify library has more than 15,000,000 songs and using Spotify makes me feel as I did when I was using Rhapsody before I had to give up that music service in my move to Mac computers.
Continue reading → Bye Bye Pandora and iTunes: The Spotify Review
Yesterday, I was hankerin’ for a hunk o’ Blues holiday music. I hopped onto iTunes and found — “Blues, Blues Christmas” — a collect of 52 songs recorded between 1925-1955.
I was toodling around the iTunes App store this morning, and when I did a search for “guitar amps,” I discovered the “Vox Mobile Catalog” for my iPhone and I was hooked the moment after the free download.
We love the Guitar World Lick of the Day and, this week, that keen program is the “iPad App of the Week” in the iTunes store.
Continue reading → Boles Blues Review in the iTunes App Store!
Buddy Guy is 74-years-old and his latest album — Living Proof — dropped today and that collection of gut and grit is, without a doubt, spectacular. Buddy Guy is one of our greatest American Blues Heroes. He has transformed his talent into something bright, white-hot, and unbending.
When we are met with the abject Blues failures of fail-safe luminaries like Eric Clapton and Cyndi Lauper — getting a fresh breath of the Blues with 16-year-old Andy Poxon — is just the tonic we need to keep on skiffling.
Eric Clapton’s new album dropped today — simply titled, “Clapton” — and this is his first album of new songs in over four years and, unfortunately, the record is ashamedly weak and painfully forlorn. See Clapton dully staring back at you from the album cover below? That’s perfectly encapsulates the listening experience of the music. He. Blankly. Stares. At. You. With. A. Dour. Face.
Continue reading → The Clapton Review: Waiting Four Years for Mediocrity
Gregor Hilden is one of those Bluesman who — once you hear a single chord he plays — forever owns your sense of what’s good and your definition of what makes The Blues intrinsically real and beautifully human. I’ve never met Greg proper, but I feel as if I’ve known him forever — merely because I drink in his daily GregsGuitars videos on YouTube. Four days ago, I couldn’t bear my secret delight in his talent any longer, and I posted my very first comment on a video in my long history of using YouTube:
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