Tell me when ya get here:

Does anyone else find Pollstar a disorganized mess? I know it’s useful when you want to know if a specific artist is coming to your town but that’s nothing you can’t do through the artists own mailing list. Say you want to know who will be playing in your town in the month of May? A jumble red links like a blood splatter across your monitor. Too small, badly organized, lots of information, little use.

There’s got to be a few web geeks out there who could create a service a la Moreover that harvests concert information from the web sites of bands, labels, and concert venues that could then be transmited via email. A music lover could select a list of artists, where they live and the service could update them accordingly.

Uncool and Proud:

It was only a matter of time before the music I grew up with came back into vogue: loud, silly pop you can’t get out of your head, sung by ugly white boys from Michigan. May I present, dear readers, Andrew W K.

Downloadable Hassles:

I’ve been trying for the last week to download “This Year”, a song by Chantal Kreviazuk from the Serendipity soundtrack. It’s got those burnished chords and harmonies that leave me breathless.

WinMX lists hundreds of songs by this artist but no sign of “This Year.” I know it’s a new soundtrack but back in the days of Napster, my fellow music thieves would have mp3’s ready for download the minute an album hit the shelves. C’mon people, it’s the digital age! You don’t expect me to actually wait for something…

Do you?

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