My Rock Band/Guitar Hero Top 10 Wish List

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that I'm hopelessly addicted to Rock Band and Guitar Hero. I pretend that I bought those games for my kids, but we all know I really bought them for myself (and if the kids are nice, I'll let them play, too). It's a sure sign that you're addicted to these... [read more]

Sunday, February 10, 2008 in Music | Permalink | Comments (18) | Incoming Links

The Bradbury Family's Rocking Weekend

This was a rock-and-roll weekend for the Bradbury household. It started when my coworker Darrin Long let me know that Rush was playing at Red Rocks this summer. I mentioned this to my wife, who suggested we both go, and bring our two kids with us. I was able to get four pre-sale tickets, so fellow NewsGator-ites be forewarned: there... [read more]

Monday, January 28, 2008 in Music, Personal | Permalink | Comments (5) | Incoming Links

Great Performance by Nicole Atkins

My musical tastes lean towards the "loud and obnoxious" variety (for example, Avenged Sevenfold's latest CD has been blasting from my speakers this week). But despite not being my style of music, this performance by Nicole Atkins blew me away. If this woman isn't the next big thing, then there's something wrong with this country (via Rogers Cadenhead). [read more]

Friday, January 11, 2008 in Music | Permalink | Comments (6) | Incoming Links

Guitar Hero II Ate My Weekend

Instead of going to Gnomedex this past weekend, I chose to stay home with my kids because today is their first day at a new school. So I had big plans for the weekend, plans that involved spending "quality time" with them making sure they were comfortable with going to a new school. But then my son asked to play... [read more]

Monday, August 13, 2007 in Music, Personal | Permalink | Comments (9) | Incoming Links

My iTunes Widgets

Niall Kennedy has the news about Apple's new My iTunes, which enables sharing your iTunes purchases, favorites and reviews as Flash-based widgets. This is a great move by Apple, although I do wish I could customize which purchases appear in the widget (for example, I'd like to exclude music I purchased for my wife, since her tastes are quite different... [read more]

Friday, August 10, 2007 in Music, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (1) | Incoming Links

Impressive Guitarist

I added this to my link feed earlier today, but since this is a slow blogging week for me, I figured I'd share it here, too. If you enjoy the acoustic guitar, then check out this YouTube video of guitarist Andy McKee. [read more]

Tuesday, August 07, 2007 in Music | Permalink | Comments (9) | Incoming Links

The Hype Machine RSS Feeds

Jason Calacanis just pointed to The Hype Machine, a free service which tracks MP3 blogs and builds a list of MP3 links that are downloadable by a podcatcher such as FeedStation. [read more]

Thursday, January 25, 2007 in FeedDemon, Music, Syndication | Permalink | Comments (0) | Incoming Links

My 2006 Favorites

Yep, I'm joining the ranks of bloggers who write about their favorite pop culture releases of the past year. Sad, isn't it? [read more]

Wednesday, December 27, 2006 in Film, Music, Personal, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (3) | Incoming Links

Old School?

Yesterday Scott Johnson said that I rock because I'm an "old school" programmer (Scott - thanks for the kind words!). Funny thing is, yesterday was my 39th birthday (yep, I'm one year away from the big four-oh) so it was kind of unnerving to hear that I'm old school already. But in the programming world, I guess I am old... [read more]

Friday, May 12, 2006 in Music, Personal | Permalink | Comments (5) | Incoming Links

What was I thinking?

So, last night I went to a Sevendust concert, and for the first time in almost two decades I got into a mosh pit. Let's just say that today my aching 38-year-old self is very aware of the reasons why moshing is done by a younger crowd... [read more]

Monday, March 13, 2006 in Music, Personal | Permalink | Comments (11) | Incoming Links