Patients in the cardiac care unit of Morristown (NJ) Memorial Hospital are showing positive responses to the daily visits of Alix Weisz and her harp. She is part of a month-long study of the effects of music in hospitals, and she sticks to a calming repertoire of lullabies, chants and Celtic songs.
A selection of fashion, skin adornment and scalp reworkings from music fans. Borderline NSFW, depending, of course, on where you work.
How metal is forging new territories via SunnO))), Six Organs of Admittance, Wolfmangler and Cadaverous Condition.
She underwent gastric bypass surgery, and dropped 200 lbs, but the voice remains intact, according to this report on a recent performance.
Threats of copyright lawsuits are shutting down sites where players share tips on how to play their favorite songs.
Faced with a multitude of choices, a NYT writer searches for the right instrument for her child, who wishes to study the flute. Should she rent or buy? New or used? How different are the brands? Music store or online shopping? Nickel-plated or silver-plated?
Within a year and a half, Youtube expects to be offering every music video ever made. Free to users. They are currently in talks with EMI and Warner Music Group.
Ten of his best, a playlist from Entertainment Weekly that features Incident on 57th Street, Nebraska, Jungleland, Galveston Bay and Born in the USA.
About the sweeping game. But then he’s had his share of the annoying crowds.
He was not even asked, but he’s okay with that.
Does it define you? Is anything cooler? Does it help you meet interesting people? Did any band ever sell more t-shirts than albums? Is it worth the $45 you paid?
Usually, I can only take Etta James in small doses, but seeing as how I’ve got a ton of stuff to do that requires that I stay chained to the desk, I’ve put on Mystery Lady, Songs of Billie Holiday. Includes You’ve Changed, Body and Soul, The Very Thought of You and I’ll Be Seeing You.
If there’s not a song about tuberous begonias, there should be.
Nokia gets ready to enter the the music service world with its acquisition of the company started by Peter Gabriel.
The service will be aimed at Nokia cellphone users, and launches sometime next year.
There was a time when records were sold out of plain brown wrappers. How times have changed.
In a recent online poll of Brit hits, the Beatles song was voted the absolute worst. Runners-up include Meat Loaf, Vanilla Ice and 5ive with Queen. Readers of the Beeb responded with their own choices, some of which will make you shudder at remembering.
The Keyboard Experience has a keyboard and six percussion tubes plus an MP3 player dock. If you prefer eight tubes playable by hand motion, there’s the Percussion Tubes device. Both under $80 at your local Kmart or Best Buy.
Making your own percussive music means you can dance around while generating a custom rhythm, right? How cool is that?
Suggestions from The Telegraph: Brubeck, Krall, Benson, Sting, Cullum, Hancock, Tyner.
The Guardian asks what they listen to when they travel. Quite a range, from Tony Jo White to DJ Shadow to Brian Wilson to Massive Attack to Kate Bush to Groove Armada to David Bowie.
The list from Q magazine includes Foreigner, Gloria Gaynor, Billy Idol, 10cc and ELO.
We are grateful for the cool marine breezes that make up our Bay Area summer wind. But the capricious wind of the song is not to be trusted if you want to hang on to your sweetie.
Michel LeGrand won an Oscar for the score of Summer of ‘42, and this was the title song.
‘And lovingly she warms the sand on which you lie.’
