Albums are completely dead. Trends show that users are barely downloading songs nowadays, let alone buying albums. Streaming is where it’s at. And streaming services now have their own charts, too. Ex-music industry exec ranter Bob Lefsetz had an interesting take on the fall of the album and the trends involving Spotify, MOG, YouTube, and [...]
There are a few unexpected milestones that I’ve hit in my years on this earth. Unexpected, because I’m not necessarily asking for it, but it just fortuitously fell in my lap. Here are 3 I’m quite proud of, and all documented on RadioPotato.com. 1 – I won DJ of the Year in college 2x. and [...]
That old familiar story about musicians dying at 27 has become full focus once again by all the blogs and news outlets (mine included). AMY WINEHOUSE was the latest living legend to lose her battle with drugs and alcohol on July 23, 2011 at Age 27. Some musicians work their entire lives to achieve critical acclaim for their [...]
Since band bios tend to be REALLY long and REALLY lame (this rising band sweeping the internet, breathtakingly brilliant, uber-talented, infectious grooves, blah, blah, blah), the reader checks out immediately when it goes into hyper-adjective mode and is written by the superfanclubpresident. See example below. *Name has been changed to protect the guilty. Puff the Magic Dragon* was [...]
Slow Runner’s Damage Points is a psychological mind-f*ck. Not quite indie and not quite pop, Charleston, SC’s Slow Runner releases their fourth studio album on March 15th. Made up of singer/songwriter/keyboardist Michael Flynn and multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaler, Damage Points is a unique dance between the synthesized light-hearted bleeps and bloops coupled with a gripping emotional [...]
Unless you’re Oprah Winfrey or Barbara Walters, journalists’ interviews of interesting people generally suck. Either the questions are as creative as a wet mop (how did you get started? who are your influences? blah blah yawn blah) or the artists being interviewed choose Fort Knox as their modus operandi. I’d like to give a big fat BRAVO to two [...]
Opening with bone-shaking harmonies a Capella while slowly introducing the picking of an acoustic guitar, then adding a faint bass line, and working into a full thumping rush of their stunning song “Sigh No More,” Mumford & Sons had arrived in Atlanta. Mumford & Sons is an anomaly of sorts. You don’t expect a band from [...]
When left with a little too much time and a little too much curiosity, I wondered what the ultra-private Ray LaMontagne’s wife Sarah Sousa looked like and what her life was like. Not that I’m planning on being the Perez Hilton of folk music, but… BOOM! And it’s scandalous and shocking… I have to say, she LOOKS [...]
Drive-bys, Facebook stalking, inappropriate sobbing, therapy-inducing self-doubt, random rebound hook-ups, break-ins, drunk texting, embarassing pleas begging to get back together…oy vay! Break-ups will make you go from Zero –> Crazy in no time flat. Not that I would EVER do such things (ahem!) but you get the point. We’ve all done ridiculously embarassing things to kill the pain of a [...]
My girlfriends and I have often sat around and discussed the inner-complexities of our failed relationships and we noticed they have a very common theme. They go something like this: ”It started out GREAT! He was so perfect and sweet to me! And then I don’t know what happened. He became disconnected and a total [...]
He may look like a little British hobbit, but DAMN, Jamie Cullum puts on an electrifying performance! I’ve been a fan of Jamie Cullum for many years now. Evidently, my nomination for the highly esteemed Chozen Award has left me pretty cocky. I decided I would send Jamie a Facebook e-mail earlier this week. Maybe his career aspirations included being [...]
Q: When you think of John Mayer, do you think Musician or do you think Celebrity? Discuss.
Festival Season is almost here! Hot steamy days with streets filled with drunken fools, warm flat beer, big live music, oyster shuckings on the ground, and general debauchery. In Atlanta, festival season kicks off in mid-February with the Steamhouse Lounge’s Oysterfest. I, for one, have my tickets ready to go and am ready to kick it off [...]
2009 has been rich in friends, music, family, and love. I can’t believe that in a few days, we will be in the next decade! I spend hours and hours searching for the best music you’ve (or I’ve) never heard and put only the best on this site. Some may say that I’m obsessed. Instead, I [...]
Could the grocery store be the new hotbed for music? Probably not – but I have been noticing a trend. I was walking through Publix supermarket when Fleet Foxes’s Mykonos - (recently dubbed part of the “bearded folk” movement) was playing on the overhead speaker. Then, I heard a song by a Nashville-based emerging singer/songwriter named Griffin House. What? When did these [...]
