Category Archives: Music

All things related to music: reviews, concerts, birthdays, etc.

Ten billion songs

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Steve

Apple’s iTunes Store achieved this milestone this afternoon. Pretty impressive since the downloadable part of the store was launched less than seven years ago. I’m curious about two things in regards to this achievement: Did the Music Industry traditionally sell … Continue reading →

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Happy 60th Birthday Peter Gabriel

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Steve

For years, the moniker “genius” is overused in the realm of popular music but Peter Gabriel rightfully belongs there on my short list. (You’ll have to bug me directly for the other nine.) While David Bowie is the grandfather of … Continue reading →

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KMAG hits one million songs…

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Steve

…and no, I am not doing the whole Dr. Evil-Mike Myers bit with my pinky. The joke was rather tired by mid-Summer 1997. This landmark, okay trivial, event finally happened at 3:15 AM on January 30, 2010. I didn’t bother … Continue reading →

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Maybe this singer should get my shoe solution

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Steve

If Little Books (nee Victoria Hesketh) needed to move into a new house (not sure why the English withhold articles with such phrases as going to (the) hospital) all over her shoe collection, then the Container Store should look into … Continue reading →

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May nothing come of this unholy union

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Steve

I was poking around the Web, reading a great article on The Guardian about the photographer Spoon paid for their new album cover only to see this horror. Scratch that. Horror implies I care. Corgan gets well-deserved razzing for the … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday to Elvis & David Bowie

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Steve

Hail to the King of Rock n’ Roll and the Thin White Duke. Man, if Elvis didn’t die on the can, he would’ve be 75? I always thought he was older but I did the math again based upon knowing … Continue reading →

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It’s a stretch yet I agree!

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Steve

This was from today’s Toronto Star column on technology. Comical? Yes. Odd? That too. Apocryphal? No. Only the music purists could say such a thing, never mind the games’ positive effect on people wanting to learn how to play the … Continue reading →

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KMAG’s playlist exceeds 8000 songs now

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Steve

Hmm. It took me 17 months add 1000 songs which is rather disappointing since I scored over 150 releases for 2009; I’m nowhere close to being done too, I think my stream will be bringing in material from 2009 well … Continue reading →

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Manhattan Transfer

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Steve

Sunday night I saw the greatest Vocal-based/Crossover act of the last 40 years at the One World Theater for the third time. Most are ambivalent about the Manhattan Transfer but I know they can draw out a really some serious … Continue reading →

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Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Steve

Today I got to meet a member of Music Royalty, the lovely and very talented Rosanne Cash! Royalty? Yes. She’s the daughter of Johnny Cash, step-daughter of June Carter, step-sister of Carlene Carter and through all these relationships Rosanne is … Continue reading →

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Eric Woolfson RIP

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Steve

The primary singer and co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project passed away earlier this week according the NY Times. Contrary to the band being named after his partner; the more famous recording engineer (practically everyone knows about Alan’s contributions to … Continue reading →

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Metric

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Steve

When it comes to describing this Toronto-based quartet, I usually fallback on Ladytron but I think Echobelly is more accurate or maybe something in between. I finally got to catch them while the iron is hot because their current album … Continue reading →

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Great podcast regarding music’s future

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Steve

Last week I was talking to former manager about the new Brian Setzer album (released in October with his orchestra) and the conversation evolved into technology killing traditional music sales v. radio’s consolidation being the root cause. Obviously, I’m in … Continue reading →

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Glenn Tilbrook

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Steve

Most of the world knows him as the lead singer of Squeeze which isn’t very accurate because Chris Difford sang on many tunes plus their biggest hit is predominantly sung by Paul Carrack and Jools Holland did a few. No … Continue reading →

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Happy 50th Birthday Weird Al Yankovic

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Steve

The clown prince of Pop music celebrates his birthday but sadly no new album until next year as per his site. To satisfy  his legion of fans, there’s just a five-song EP via iTunes and a compilation CD (only the … Continue reading →

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