The Mundown

Sorry, haven't written anything in a couple weeks. Just haven't really found anything I felt like writing about lately. So I thought I'd at least return to The Mundown and try to throw out some good music vibes. Among other things...

GO SUNS! Up 1-0 against the Spurs. Good start.

I've written about Lala quite a bit, and I use it to post music on here, so I was very disappointed to hear Apple will be shutting it down as of May 31, 2010. Seems iTunes will be moving to the Cloud soon, which I guess will ultimately be good, but they haven't really said if they'll do anything along the Lala model. Probably no free listen, and I can't imagine they'll let you 'rent' songs. Too bad. I hope something comes up in place of it. Oh well, enjoy while you can.

Seems all I can do is post a link now, so this may or may not work. Until I figure out one of those bottom of the screen music stream things. This is "Closing Time" by Tom Waits.


Spinner http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/1
Stream new albums from Broken Social Scene, The Hold Steady, Free Energy, Holy F*ck, New Pornographers, Minus the Bear, Cate Le Bon (no relation to Simon), and Bone Thugs 'n Harmony. Plus more I didn't list.

I must say I really like Free Energy and have listened to that a couple times. Also like the new Broken Social Scene and Hold Steady. Haven't listened to Minus the Bear yet but I will. I probably won't listen to Bone Thugs.

Lala (enjoy it while you can!) http://www.lala.com
Looks like new stuff from Ozomatli, Godsmack, Snoop Dogg and....Glee (OMG!). There are also some EPs from Cornershop, VHS or Beta and Ozzy. Oh, I left out a new one from Air Supply. All in all, it's getting pretty crappy on Lala.

NPR http://www.npr.org/music/
Stream new ones from The National, The Dead Weather and Flying Lotus.

I like the new National album. I can't say I love it but I like it. I'll listen to it a couple more times I'm sure, and it hasn't officially been released yet. Somehow, though, I think I was wanting a little bit more.

There are so many 'radio' sites. I like Pandora, Last.fm, etc but I like to be able to choose what I want to hear and I like to be able to hear entire albums. They just don't give you that. I read on Mashable those are more of discovery sites, and I'd agree with that. Good for a certain time, but for me, that's not a lot. YouTube is also great for listening (and obviously watching) stuff.