The administrator of singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen posted this on his official fan forum last week:
The following advance notice is posted with Leonard’s permission.
Leonard Cohen will be touring with his band in
Canada and US in May and in Europe in the summer.
More details will be announced in February.
Many critics consider Cohen to be among our most talented living songwriters and I agree. Don’t know who Leonard Cohen is?
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UPDATED: Want to save 20% to 70% and more on your next Ipod, Zune, Creative Zen or other portable music player? It’s actually pretty simple. Buy refurbished direct from the manufacturer or wholesaler. Refurbished can mean many things. Sometimes its returned merchandise after someone changed their mind or from a store that bought to many. Sometimes its a broken player that has now been fixed. Often its just that they made too many; so they discount to make room for the next model.
Most “refurbished” players are guaranteed to look and play like new. Usually the guarantee provided is the …read more
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Ever wish you could convert that stack of great albums gathering dust in the corner to mp3’s playable on your computer?
Thanks to a line of turntables from Numark you can. Several models enable ripping tracks to your computer that can then be transferred to any portable player or ripped to CD. But the latest model adds a dock that allows you to rip straight into your iPod without any computer needed.
It’s kind of pricey at $449, but if your pile of vinyl is big enough you might want to spring for it; and you also end up with a pretty …read more
This iPod docking station and radio inspired by Disney’s ultra-popular “High School Musical” (just ask anyone under the age of 15) is so cool looking that it makes me wish I were back in high school.
It sells for about $60 and if that weren’t enough, check out this HD ready 15 inch LCD TV which will sell for around $300.
Did you ever wish you could discover and help promote a great new band? Or just help support some of the great new music that’s created but just doesn’t have the connections or desire to sign with one of those big failing record labels? Now thanks to SliceThePie.com you can.
Can you hear a track and judge how successful it’s going to be?
Would you like to help finance artists and share in their financial success? Or just trade in and out of artists to make money?
If so, Slicethepie is for you.
Slicethepie turns every music fan into a record label. Earn money …read more
The world’s 4th largest record label group EMI announced it would cut 1500-2000 jobs or one third of its workforce in the next 90 days. Details emerged of a new plan to spend more on artists development and less on marketing. (Good for new music and bad for the established acts we love.) Several major acts including Coldplay, Robbie Williams and The Verve said they would delay delivering new releases until EMI proved they would support them and The Rolling Stones departed the label for Universal as Radiohead had earlier.
Fewer indies on imeem and Lala: Hypebot broke the story that …read more
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You can find, play and then download almost any song you can imagine for free from the web. We should caution that some of the songs you download are not intentionally being offered free.
searches the web for mp3’s and lets you listen to the them from your web browser. Its extremely easy to use and provides great results. (here)
If you like to listen to primarily live tracks also try Songza we’ve written about previously and has some great song sharing options.
Songbeat is a little peice of software that let’s you (and this is the legally grey area) download what your …read more
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