Eric Maynard: music

The World Is My Oyster

Tue, 08 Oct 2002 23:19:46 GMT

Asimov. catchy acoustic pop/rock fans

All their songs were recorded at home in their livingroom. The music is surprisingly good and definitely worth a listen.

- trippedwire at 5:40 PM on October 06 2002

[via Emergent Music]

I agree. This song is a melancholy filled trip into oblivion... i like the organ at the beginning - nice touch.

I'm for sure giving the other 10 songs on their site a listen as well.

The Dears

Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:40:21 GMT

The Dears, Orchestral Pop Noir Romantique. artistic, ambient, euro influenced rock music. [Emergent Music]

Sort of like Barenaked Ladies meets David Bowie. Interesting, but not really my cup of tea.

In the mood for some tunes

Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:07:33 GMT

Light blogging... heavy into music (at the moment).

Got KazAa Lite installed and I'm crankin' out CDs. Also, got a few oldies from the library:

Wilco's 1996 Being There, which interstestingly, is #17 on Microsoft's Amazon populartity engine.

Weezer's 1996 Pinkerton. Belly's 1993 Star. And finally... The Cowboy Junkies' 1990 The Trinity Session

Eunice Sim, Stronger Than Some.

Wed, 07 Aug 2002 11:32:37 GMT

Eunice Sim, Stronger Than Some. For music fans who like alternative pop [on Emergent Music]

Oh yeah, I can handle more of that. Got that Indigo Girls thing going, but only a little more popish.

Freeflow Conspiracy - United.

Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:57:30 GMT

Freeflow Conspiracy, United. If you like rock, rap, hip hop, surf, funk...sublime or 311. [Emergent Music]

Hmmm.... I'd say more like Kid Rock or the Beastie Boys, but then most of the sublime that I'm familiar with is very melodic(?) - What I Got, Wrong Way, Santeria, and Doin' Time.

Tape (2001)

Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:05:09 GMT

"This is a very daring and extremely unconventional film which will have a hard time finding an audience. Certainly, it will not be for everyone."

We watched this brilliant piece of camera work last night. The UMF - (ultimate mind %&#)

IMDB's write up says it all:

"...the viewer feels like a voyeur intruding on something that has nothing to do with them - the way Amy herself probably feels when watching these two men. And the camera is constantly drawing attention to itself to the point where it's actually distracting and even infuriating. If the sight of people talking in previous Linklater films felt inviting, this feels more like an uncomfortable situation you can't get out of."

I'm confident that watching this on a big screen would have amplified that feeling even more.

BlogAmp

Sun, 14 Jul 2002 02:08:36 GMT

"BlogAmp is a free Winamp plugin that allows the user to keep in his personal web page a list with the last songs played in his Winamp. This list is update by FTP in real time."

Now I can begin streaming playlists again. Soon

Counting Crows

Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:09:42 GMT

The Crows have a new album out - Hard Candy is the title.

Beth Orton : Daybreaker

Wed, 10 Jul 2002 03:06:44 GMT

"Long known for her work with The Chemical Brothers and her two solo albums, Beth Orton is back with the brand new record entitled Daybreaker, her first on Astralwerks with Heavenly Recordings. Featuring collaborations with Ben Watt, The Chemical Brothers, Emmylou Harris and Ryan Adams (who lends vocals on the first single, Concrete Sky), Daybreaker will permanently establish Beth as one of the great artists of our time. "

I was curious who that was on Concrete Sky "sound" . Excellent first impression. I'll need more for sure.

Musical morning

Tue, 02 Jul 2002 12:02:58 GMT

Lot's of good music on DirecTV 818 (Progressive) this morning getting ready for work...

'Southern Cross' by Crosby Stills Nash & Young
In the Sun by Joseph Arthur

When Doves Cry by Patti Smith

Good eclectic mix!

That's reminds me... this past weekend listening to our local PR station... my daughter making up her own nonsense words as I croon out the real words to an instrumental 'Ohio' performed some accoustic guitarist.

A timeless moment on so many different levels. I'm smiling inside now at the thought of her recalling the moment 20 or 30 years from now :)

BNL - Greatest Hits

Tue, 02 Jul 2002 02:08:02 GMT

Listening to Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001 The Barenaked Ladies in the vehicle this past week or so. Pretty good stuff, but a bit like candy, eventually you just get enough.

Wed, 19 Jun 2002 01:29:34 GMT

Don Henley (from Eagles still test the limits)

I have a great deal of distaste and disrespect for what MTV and VH1 have become, pandering to the lowest-common denominator -- you know, contributing to the increasing shallowness of the culture, the dumbing down of the culture, simply to feed the voracious corporate appetite. Corporations are ruining the world, okay? They're sucking the blood out of every culture on the earth.

[via Matt Goyer - Check out EM]

Amen brother!

Fri, 07 Jun 2002 10:53:58 GMT

Red to Violet, MR J, Here I Am, It Comes Again, 13 more.... alt rock duo, winners America's JPFolks indie music awards, alternative song category [Emergent Music]

The vocals of this group are a bit on the rough, but I still find them interesting to listen to. I pulled this quote from "EM" recommendation an I say it's just bout on target.

"rough-edged vocals, think Chrissie Hynde meets Alanis Morissette, alt rock sound with unique instrumentation" (corrie pelc, fmsound.net)

Sat, 01 Jun 2002 00:33:59 GMT

Visit Venus, Stellarphobia. Visit Venus, Stellarphobia
Electronica - 'Stellerphobia' by Visit Venus is deeply grooving [Best of Emergent Music]

Music to set the mood...

Sat, 01 Jun 2002 00:31:44 GMT

Leona Naess, I Tried To Rock You But You Only Roll. Leona Naess, I Tried To Rock You But You Only Roll
Rock - one of the best albums of 2001 [Best of Emergent Music]

My fav is the more toned down "Promise To Try"

Sat, 01 Jun 2002 00:08:39 GMT

Pocket Dwellers, Pocket Dwellers. Pocket Dwellers, Pocket Dwellers
Hip Hop - warning: this record induces spontaneous dancing [Best of Emergent Music]

The 'Jazz' in this group's music really makes the first recommendatoin claim true. You do suddenly get the urge to tap your feet or hands on the nearest object.

Fri, 31 May 2002 23:41:21 GMT

Linda M, This is Linda M. Linda M, This is Linda M
Pop - Great lyric-driven catchy pop [Best of Emergent Music]

I quote Gary R. "She's a real diamond in the rough." and chris_mahan captures my own first impressions: "A mix between Morissette and McLaughlin"

NPR : Guitarist/Songwriter John Mayer

Tue, 28 May 2002 23:39:53 GMT

"The 24-year-old guitarist delivers a smoother, more smoldering sound than your average rocker -- in fact, you could say his music is for squares."

I'm a square then... If you haven't given this young gentleman a listen to yet then *DO* it. I've love that 'smooth, soldering sound' as described in the NPR interview linked above. The tension in Mayer's music is just incredible.

I first heard Why Georgia about a month ago on DirecTV's DMX 'Progressive' channel (an excellent source for new music BTW) and No Such Thing on our local Clear Channel station over the weekend. Hopefully, this 24 year old's emminent success won't spoil him too much. Lot's of clips and a couple of videos (for those w/ large pipes) on the official website johnmayer.com

Wed, 22 May 2002 12:32:53 GMT

Clem Snide, Moment In the Sun. Alternative country [Emergent Music]

My first EM Music Review. Now, all my EM reviews will be fed (via RSS) back into my Radio-based ...useless miscellany music category.

Ain't it kewl!

Tue, 21 May 2002 23:11:20 GMT

Custom RSS Feeds From Emergent Music

If you find our current Radio Userland driven feed not flexible enough for your hardcore RSS needs then please check out our new dynamic RSS feeds (we're using RSS 0.92).

We know have the following feeds:

And you can limit how many items you want in each in addition to filtering by genre.

Send your complaints my way if you have any.

Hopefully this helps Benny who was trying to read our RSS feeds with his iPod. [Matt Goyer - Check out EM]

I can't tell you how exciting it is to be part of something as forward thinking as Emergent Music is. These guys are extremely responsive to the community they serve. Keep up the awesome work guys.

Sidenote: Now that I'm connected via broadband, I'll hopefully be able to participate and make more of a contribution to the EM community. It was kind of tuff having to wait on downloads at sub 28.8k speeds.

Tue, 21 May 2002 11:08:45 GMT

A first today... I ripped a CD onto my hard drive and threw away the physical disk. I couldn't find the case for it, and a caseless CD just seemed to be more trouble than it was worth. It's the first time I've ended up with purchased music only in the form of bits on my hard drive. On the other hand, the record company's position is probably that I own the CD, not the music itself, so I shouldn't have done what I did. Tough. It's a new world, you folks who work at the labels; you'd better get used to it and help make it even better for people like me, or we'll replace you. [Gary Robinson's Rants]

Hear, hear!

Smells like Teen Spirit

Wed, 15 May 2002 14:54:17 GMT

"But Cobain's music and lyrics confronted and changed me. They forced me to see a world I had previously avoided, mainly because my friends and I never walked that direction. Cobain was the first writer from my own age group to capture my attention."

I can relate on so many levels with the author of this article on Salon about the late Kurt Cobain and Nirvana's success in the early '90s.

RSS Downloads without Radio

Tue, 07 May 2002 12:00:14 GMT

>>> I've run across a couple more bugs in Radio Userland's code for enclosures. It chokes if the URL for the enclosure has spaces in it -- which is true for a lot of mp3 files. On Mac OS X (and I assume Mac OS 9 although I hanven't checked) it also chokes on filenames longer than 31 characters. In the meantime we're working on our own alternative RSS download engine so that interested users can get the best of Emergent Music downloaded onto their hard drives overnight without buying Radio. <<< [Gary Robinson's Rants]

It's great to see these guys putting forth the effort to make RSS delivered downloads ready for the massess. Good luck Gary & all at "em weblog"

Wed, 01 May 2002 01:35:45 GMT

The badge on the right is, IMHO, very cool. Run your mouse over it and click on an mp3 link to hear music. If you'd like to give your readers the ability to instantaneously hear the best of EM without leaving your own site, see these instructions. [Gary Robinson's Rants]

Got it! And it is truly cool (Although it would be even cooler limited to my micro-genres of choice). Scroll down, and hover your mouse on the EMp3 Badge

Dangerous thinking

Wed, 01 May 2002 00:10:30 GMT

"So what's so Emergent about EmergentMusic? It seeks to find make emerge? the great stuff from all the music you can find on the Web. Members are encouraged to post their ratings for music they find and like. "

Just remember that's Emergent as in 'haven't been discovered yet'