Hello Faithful Readers!

I would like to inform you, that according to my sources, T-Pain is deciding to not use Auto-tune on his new album, rEVOLVEr. Here is is official statement as to why:

"You can't stick with one thing forever," T-Pain explains. "After you figure out how stuff works, you've got to start making your own. When everybody talks about (Auto-Tune), they pretty much say T-Pain. So what simpler thing to do? It's supply and demand. You want the T-Pain sound? I'm gonna give you the T-Pain effect."


Personally, I have to respect his wishes on this. An artist cannot stick to the same thing all the time. It's always good to try new things. A good example of this is Panic(!) At The Disco. There are major musical differences between their albums, Fever You Can't Sweat Out and Pretty Odd. They are incredibly different. But Panic pulled it off because it was only their second album. However on their third album, they returned to that familier "first album" soun.  The only band that not changing really worked for was The Ramones. I love every one of their albums from Ramones  to Adios Amigos.  


Part of being a musician or any other form of artists is taking chances. You put yourself down on the canvas or in the lyrics or in your music. Not everybody will like who you are. Even if a band or musician isn't good, I respect them. It takes quite a bit of guts to put yourself out there like that. 


So I say, Well played T-Pain! 

Birthdays

I would like to wish a very happy birthday to Mr. Cat Stevens or Yusef Islam as he is called now. He is one of my dad's favorite recording artists, and because I grew up around that, he is one of my favorite recording artists. 


This Day in Music History


1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience played the first of three nights at the Cafe-a-Go-Go in New York City. 

Jimi Hendrix

1973, Jim Croce started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Bad, Bad Leroy Brown'. Croce was killed in a plane crash three months later.

1973, Canned Heat, Chuck Berry, Nazareth, Edgar Broughton Band, Groundhogs, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Medicine Head, Brewers Droop, Roy Wood and Wizzard all appeared at this years Buxton Festival in Derbyshire, England. 

1977, Despite protests, The Sex Pistols made their first appearance on the UK music show Top Of The Pops, where they lip-synched to their third single, 'Pretty Vacant'. The performance helped push the song up the charts to No.7.

Johnny Rotten 

1982, Queen played the first night on their 32-date ‘Hot Space’ North American tour at Montreal Forum, Montreal, Canada.






1990, Roger Waters 'The Wall' took place at the Berlin Wall in Potzdamer Platz, Berlin. Over 350,000 people attended and the event was broadcast live throughout the world, Van Morrison, Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell, The Scorpions, Cyndi Lauper, Sinead O'Connor and others took part.




Albums that I can't get enough of recently:


Sidewalks- Matt & Kim

This is Matt & Kim's third studio album, and in my opinion gives their second album, Grand, a run for its money. This album give you a genuine taste of NYC. It can be said that Matt matured a little in his lyrics and his sound. Not to say that Matt & Kim and  Grand weren't good. They were good. But why not leave good for great, as one of the songs on Sidewalks suggests?






















Fixed At Zero- VersaEmerge

This is VersaEmerge's first studio album. But definitely not their first compilation of material. Preceded by this album were 2 or 3 EPs. 
The front cover of the album and the title song both have vultures as a re-occuring theme. "Vultures, themselves, are lazy and not capable hunters. I think that the vulture represents the things inside us that hinder us or hold us back", says lead vocalist, Sierra Kusterbeck . Vultures are also what VersaEmerge's fanbase has come to call itself. 

Write About Love- Belle and Sebastian

It's Belle & Sebastian...nuff said. No.. Jk. There are so many great things that I can say about this album. My friends used to say that Belle and Sebastian's music is music only a hipster mother could love. Well, Belle and Sebastian's 8th studio album definitely changed their minds. Stuart and his band definitely did a great job writing about...let's see. What did they write about? OH write about Love. The album features artists like Norah Jones (on Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John) and Carrie Mulligan (on Write About Love). Actually, in all honesty, the fact that is it is indeed Belle & Sebastian sort of speaks for itself. They are known world-wide and they have the(se) unique sound(s) that only Belle & Sebastian are capable of pulling off.