"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. " -- Plato.
It’s always good to hear from friends and here at Band of the Week we feel like all our former bands are friends. One such band, The Ruse, recently let us know of the exciting things happening in their world. We originally profiled The Ruse back in August 2006, when I reviewed their […]
Previous Band of the Week artists, Green River Ordinance (GRO), recently announced that they would be giving away their acclaimed debut album The Beauty of Letting Go completely free. This independently released album is sincere and dynamic, sumptuously layered with rich, warm melodies, harmonies, and rhythms. Their unique brand of power-pop and indie […]
The Satirical/ Sci Fi novelist Kurt Vonnegut died late Wednesday. The man many critics consider to be one of the key figures in the shaping of modern American literature had suffered irreversible brain injuries after a fall in his Manhattan home several weeks ago.
Vonnegut, the author of 14 novels was ever the social critic; […]
Today, EMI – one of the world’s largest record labels and home to mega-artists like Coldplay, Pink Floyd, Lenny Kravitz and Keith Urban — announced it would make DRM-free music downloads available through iTunes.
Online music makes up only about a five to ten percent of the music market but has the potential to grow un-checked […]
Blowjobs for everyone!
Boys, you did all the hard work. You searched high and low for that perfect gift for your lovely lady in the weeks running up to Valentine’s Day. And now you have a special day all your own. No, it’s not don’t-have-to-take-out-the-trash day, it’s not even men-watch-football-without-being-nagged day. It’s […]
A news story recently appeared on the Guardian Unlimited newspaper site that disturbed some Americans. It seemed to say that Arabic media, like al-Jazeera, was viewed by Europeans as more trustworthy than any American news source.
I’m an ex-pat living in the UK and my first reaction to that was to say no, it’s not […]