Weredog and the Undead Bone

Author's details

Name: John Parker
Date registered: May 29, 2009
URL: http://

Latest posts

Why did SACD, DVD-A, and Blu-ray fail as music surround formats? — June 27, 2011
Hallelujah! — March 25, 2011
RIAA + AARP = profit? — October 8, 2010
Rolling Stone to RIA — August 16, 2010
Extension FM — July 15, 2010

Author's posts listings

Nov 07 2009

Diane Birch

Categories:

Re-Categorize, Uncategorized

by Weredog and the Undead Bone

Pretty impressed with the new offering from Diane Birch. Her first album, Bible Belt is a tour de force of piano and soul. (As much as we all deride Starbucks as a McDonald-esque manifestation of American mass produced culture run amok, they have been doing a pretty good job of selecting and promoting new musical …

Tags: CDs

Leave comment

Oct 19 2009

The Song Decoders

Categories:

Business Model, Resources, Technology

by Weredog and the Undead Bone

The NYT did an excellent piece this weekend on the art and science behind Pandora. Fascinating reading, both on how Pandora profiles the songs as well as how cultural influences interfere with our ability to just listen.

This post has no tag

Leave comment

Oct 14 2009

etown

Categories:

Awards, Humour, Resources

by Weredog and the Undead Bone

…and they podcast, once a week 60 minutes, Mondays. Big thumbs up from the weredog. Upcoming: Dates Show Oct 14-Oct 20 Bruce Hornsby / Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women Oct 21-Oct 27 Kathy Mattea / Johnny Long Oct 27-Nov 02 Warren Haynes / Langhorne Slim Nov 04-Nov 10 Judy …

This post has no tag

Leave comment

Oct 13 2009

Waiting on Waits, no more

Categories:

Re-Categorize, Uncategorized

by Weredog and the Undead Bone

Tom Waits’ new live album, Glitter and Doom, is coming Nov. 24th and as a special preview you can download 8 tracks for free from his website. Get ‘em while they’re hot.

This post has no tag

Leave comment

Sep 30 2009

New Mika CD lovehatelovehateloveit

Categories:

Pop

by Weredog and the Undead Bone

Mika’s new CD, The Boy Who Knew Too Much, is a conundrum. Let me begin this brief review with the comment that my shmaltz tolerance level is pretty high, so I happen to be one of those who thinks some glam-pop is pretty cool. I am, for instance, a huge Queen fan. I actually like …

This post has no tag

2 comments

Sep 29 2009

New Subdudes

Categories:

Singer/Songwriter

by Weredog and the Undead Bone

Lest the site devolve into a Tree fanzine, I would like to mention that I am simply overjoyed with the Subdudes’ new album “Flower Petals”. It’s a little bit of a departure for them, a themed album focused on a soldier who has just died. A little less tambourine, but still New Orleans heart and …

Tags: CDs

2 comments

Sep 15 2009

…and drift away

Categories:

Progressive

by Weredog and the Undead Bone

Props to my friend Pete who passed along this Youtube video with the note skip to 5:39, turn it up, close your eyes and take the ride.

Tags: YouTube

2 comments

Sep 15 2009

SPIN’s 20 Best of 2009… so far

Categories:

Re-Categorize, Uncategorized

by Weredog and the Undead Bone

Listening to music on Youtube is like eating lobster dipped in Cheese Whiz (TM), but it’s nice when somebody (SPIN magazine in this case) takes the time to assemble some links to new artists and/or albums. I’m sorry to say I only recognized 50% of the artists in this roster, but glad to have the …

This post has no tag

1 comment

Aug 15 2009

These Are My Twisted Words

Categories:

Business Model, Lyrics, Progressive, Rock

by Weredog and the Undead Bone

Check the info text file embedded on the new leaked track from Radiohead, and you find this: i just wanted to reassure readers that following representations seeking confirmation that before your very eyes behind the wall of ice that the box is not under threat however they are set to remove other boxes in fact …

Tags: New Music

1 comment

Dec 22 2007

Music industry gets Byrne’d

Categories:

Business Model

by Weredog and the Undead Bone

For the more business-minded amongst us, Wired is running a great series of articles on the changing nature of the music business, stemming from interviews with David Byrne and Thom Yorke. This one in particular is quite rich in content and sets forth six “models” for music distribution that are the best and most accurate …

Tags: Publishing

1 comment

Just Good Music

It's like pornography. You know it when you hear it.