The Jay-Z of Blogging

A Last Chance to Donate to Music Education

2007-10-28T02:56:33Z

The Donors Choose Bloggers Challenge that I wrote about a few weeks ago is almost over, and that means you only have a few days to help support the Notes for Class Challenge, an effort to help fund music education programs that have been proposed...

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South Side Sounds

2007-10-03T02:51:14Z

I've gotten a lot of really good questions (and some fantastically generous donations!) about the Donors Choose blogger challenge I wrote about yesterday, but by far the most common is "what should I do?" There are a lot of options, so let me mak...

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Timbaland, Nine Years On

2007-09-04T06:31:47Z

Speaking of Timberlake, that brings us inevitably to Timbaland. After the fawning over Rick Rubin in the New York Times, it's amazing that there hasn't been a similarly high-profile profile of the best producer working in pop music today. Until t...

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JT's LoveShow

2007-09-04T04:23:30Z

We just finished watching HBO's broadcast of Justin Timberlake's FutureSex tour, which I (unsurprisingly) quite enjoyed. It seems like he's done a good bit since his last tour to incorporate his strong live band and his rapidly improving chops...

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A Pre-Superbowl Prince Primer

2007-02-02T20:53:33Z

Most everybody who knows me well knows that I've been a fan of Prince for pretty much my entire life. So when casual fans or non-fans hear that Prince is playing the halftime show at the Superbowl this year, they ask me, "What's up with that guy?...

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Alan Leeds and Eric Leeds

2007-01-21T09:50:58Z

I don't think I've blogged about it on Vox before, but I'm a big fan of Alan Leeds and Eric Leeds... they've both been huge parts of my appreciation of music. Alan because of his helping run the business affairs of James Brown, Prince, George Clin...

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"Prince? The little guy?"

2006-12-03T01:59:01Z

I've liked Prince and his music pretty much my whole life, and for a while I was self-conscious about it. These days, pretty much everybody who knows me knows about me being a fan, though I still struggle to explain why. Two recent YouTube finds ...

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The Problem Is, The Zune Is Brown

2006-11-14T09:42:23Z

Microsoft has just launched the Zune, which will be one of the most popular digital music players ever made, and could have been considered a wild success as a result. Instead, the device has been inevitably and irrevocably compared to Apple...

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QotD: My Musical Horoscope

2006-09-20T22:10:43Z

What's your musical horoscope? (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) Inspired by Stephanie. Hmm. I cheated a bit and told iTunes to make a 10-track party shuffle with my library. Here's what it thi...

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I'm Invincible!

2006-09-18T21:44:08Z

1. Avoided Destiny offers MP3s of most Mario Bros themes, including the Starman/Invincibility theme. I'd been looking for this for some time, and The Mushroom Kingdom was surprisingly bereft. 2. Alaina has an Nike + iPod Nano Sport Kit, which I'...

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