April 21st was the fifth annual Record Store Day, the third Saturday in April where participating independent record stores receive exclusive releases from musicians specifically for the event which takes place across North America. These releases are typically on vinyl and are made up of remixes, b-sides, new material or … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Katy Perry
It’s Grammy night
Tonight is the Grammy awards, the biggest night in music, and I’ll be live-blogging as well as the occasional tweet. The awards begin to be given out in about 40 minutes for the non-televised categories. It all starts there. The ones I pick up on during that time I’ll mention … Continue reading
2011 American Music Awards: Liveblog
I’ve never liveblogged before. Unless you count my ongoing tweets on Twitter a few months back for the MTV Music Awards. I’ve seen liveblogging occurring on actual blog sites before and figured I’ve have a crack at it while a live event was going on. I’m choosing the American Music … Continue reading
Musical Authenticity
If you were to ask me whether this year has been a good year in popular music so far, I’d give a pretty good “yes”. But when I think a bit more about it, it occurs to me that most of the year has been dominated by last year’s music. … Continue reading
This is the remix
Katy Perry just earned her 5th #1 single from her Teenage Dream album, tying a record set by Michael Jackson in the late 80s as the album with the most #1 Hot 100 singles for Bad. And she did this with the help of a few remixes. One was released … Continue reading
Katy Perry Pop
If music were an edible entity , a Katy Perry concert would be like the day after Halloween. So incredibly sweet and full of sugary goodness. And you don’t realize it until you’ve experienced it firsthand just how good it is. When thinking about good music in any sense of … Continue reading