Vids of E-heads concert

Here’s one of the great vids from the E-heads reunion concert:
Eraserheads perform ‘Alapaap’

More vids found here with additional thoughts from Raimund Marasigan.

‘E-heads reunion concert cut short, Buendia rushed to hospital’

News from Soundtrip:
Excerpt:
MANILA, Philippines — The Eraserheads Reunion Concert was cut short Saturday night after lead singer Ely Buendia was rushed to the Makati Medical Center due to overfatigue.
The concert’s sudden end was announced by Buendia’s sister Lally who went onstage after a 20-minute intermission of the planned 30-song concert.
Raimund Marasigan also came out onstage, [...]

Akira Yamaoka and video game symphony

Music4Games recently had a chat with Akira Yamaoka, the guy behind a video game symphony.
Gamers will immediately recognize the tunes he has composed.

Bye bye Pandora

It was too good to last. Yes, Pandora, the Internet streaming service that allowed people to rediscover music is gone. I was introduced to Pandora by my officemate. In not so many words, she just said, “Go to Pandora.com. You’ll love it.”
I replied, “Pandora what?”
“Just go!” she snapped back.
So I opened my browser, and for the [...]

Feeling nostalgic about Pinoy music

I recently wrote an entry on Soundtrip, aptly titled “What is Pinoy Music?”
Excerpt:
I WAS “lost” last weekend in the piles of books in a local bookstore. I was hunting for a book that was recommended to me earlier by a literary friend. But fate brought me to the “entertainment section” of this bookstore. There I [...]

Soundtrip

Finally, this is another dream come true. That sounds corny but please indulge me. I’ve been given the chance to blog about Pinoy music at INQUIRER.net. We launched it today and it’s called Soundtrip.
Excerpt of my first post:
I WAS once gifted with a T-shirt from Tower Records that says, “Know Music, Know Life.”
Perhaps that was [...]

Eddie Van Halen entering rehab

(Photo taken from Wikipedia) 
Finally, he’s doing it. It’s long overdue. I miss listening to him play Monster guitar! Here’s the same announcement from his official website.

Gravity and blues guitar

Gravity is working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down
-Gravity, John Mayer (Continuum)

I love the Blues. Thanks to Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Freddie King, and other countless guitar slingers, I’ve been addicted to the Blues. So when I picked up John Mayer’s new album, Continuum, I was surprised to find blues [...]

Pandora: Discover the music you like

Type an artist that you want to listen to, say, Joe Satriani. Pandora finds this artist, creates a personalized radio station and starts playing it (Thanks En for sharing this online find ;-)). But wait, it doesn’t stop there. It will also start playing similar music based on your taste. Welcome to Pandora, an Internet [...]

Google Music Tracks

Have you noticed that you can now let people know what you’re listening to while using Google Mail of Chat ? It’s called Google Music Trends, a service that actually tracks your music taste. It’s similar to the YM functionality that allows you to show others the Yahoo radio station you’re tuned in. But Google [...]