I have mentioned a few times before on my blog that I am a non-believer in pre-ordering music CDs before they come out. While it fully makes sense to pre-order something like a DVD of a movie you’ve seen and enjoyed, or to pre-order the sequel of a book series that you are following, music [...]

I am usually not a fan of pre-ordering music CDs. While I am usually a fairly faithful listener and CD buyer when I like a band, I still don’t like the idea of blindly buying an album when I have no clue if it’s going to be good or bad. For example, there is a [...]

After there years of waiting, and after the tragic events of last summer which led to the demise of saxophonist LeRoi Moore, the Dave Matthews Band is going to be releasing a new CD in June. For one week only, you get request a free download for the new single from the album, “Funny the [...]

I am not a big fan of YouTube since a lot of the videos that it contains seem pointless to me. However, once in a while, I hear about something great, go see it, and am just amazed at the creativity, time and effort that is put into the videos that are put on there. [...]

There’s been a roster change in the Canadian Pop Band Barenaked Ladies’ ranks a few weeks ago when co-lead singer Steven Page left the band to pursue other projects. To follow on this sad news, the four remaining members of the band have decided to make the recording of their first show as a four-piece [...]

As I was browsing the web yesterday looking for some free live concert recordings, I stumbled upon AOL’s CD Listening Party Page. This is a site that gives you a chance to listen to entire recordings that are coming out. They change the selections on a weekly basis so that they don’t stay up too [...]

I’ve been using the iTunes Music Store for a couple of years, ever since I got my first iPod. While I love the concepts of being able to buy music singles or entire albums at my leisure and getting easy previews of the songs, I’ve been appalled recently by the number of album pre-orders that [...]

While a surround sound system is useful for a home theatre system, you often need to have other radios around the house, especially the kitchen, to listen to music while performing your chores.
The old Sanyo Boombox that I had since my college days was starting to behave very strangely, not always responding to button presses [...]

My wife Andrée and I had the pleasure of seeing Daniel Bélanger on stage at a local college’s theatre this Thursday. After last seeing him on stage about 5 years ago, Bélanger is back on the road to support the release of a new album, L’échec du matériel.
With his laid back appearance (long beard, untamed [...]

I was a bit surprised today to learn that Steven Page, lead singer of Barenaked Ladies, one of my all-time favorite bands, has released a solo project in June of this year. Entitled The Vanity Project, this new CD contains a series of songs that Page co-wrote with long-time collaborator Stephen Duffy. I’ve only listened [...]