Spotify - A Love Affair

If you don't have it yet, then you need to get it on!  Spotify is simply and incredible service/app.  It does have it's flaws, but for the most part they pale in comparison to what is easily the greatest thing to happen to music in a long time.  If you like Pandora, but sometimes wish that you could hear more of that group that you just discovered there, then take it to Spotify and search.  It is likely that you will find much of said group's discography, if not all of their catalog.

I have spent much time searching and adding songs to playlists, and I have found a few gaping holes.  I assume those are due largely to licensing problems.  For instance, there is NO Eagles there, but I'm sure that is due to Henley's strong anti-corporate stance.

Talib Kweli

Need to look into this guy.  More to come.

Lee DeWise...... Really?

If I needed another reason not to watch next season of American Idol other than the fact that Simon will be absent, I have just been given that reason.  They are hand picking the fucking winners.  Come on!  Did these people watch the final competition.  Lee didn't even show up!  WTF!

When he sang "Beautiful Day" I thought that he oughtta be arrested for murder... of an awesome song.... damn.
Are we really going to have to hear him do a version of that?  man....

Bowersox is 10 times the singer that he is.  And I'll give you that she seems a bit uncomfortable sans guitar but so the hell does he.

Anyway, this has been the worst year by far of Idol ranked by how much I agreed with the judges and how they just seemed to bask in Lee's rays from the beginning.

Oh well, can't say it wasn't unpredictable but, after last night's show I thought that Crystal had a pretty damned good chance.  So much for what I think!

Online Music Contests

I'm looking for contests to enter online such as singing / songwriting contests.

This is one
http://www.riffstar.com/

Playing Live On SecondLife

I really want to do this.  I think there is a legal way to do it, ie, not getting kicked out of Second Life.

Here is a WikiHow on how to do it.  Not sure if it is the legal way or not.

Here is SL wiki on how to stream music.

Live Performance on SL

Guitar Wall Hanger

Here is an instructable on how to do it yourself.

Steve Vai and Orianthi

I had never heard of heard before, but apparently she knows Steve. Maybe she plays on his Favored Nations label or something. I will check into that.

Meanwhile, here is a video with the two: