Prepared Like a Boy Scout

So besides your guitar and your amp, what do you bring with you to a gig?

15 Other Things In Your Gig Bag from Fender.con

2009 Mashup from DJ Earworm

This year in the charts, so many of the pop songs this year seem to tell the same story: Yeah, we’ve been through a lot, but right now we’re gonna celebrate with music and dance, and it’s gonna be ok. With that spirit in mind, I invite you to…BLAME IT ON THE POP

• The Black Eyed Peas - BOOM BOOM POW
• Lady Gaga - POKER FACE
• Lady Gaga Featuring Colby O’Donis - JUST DANCE
• The Black Eyed Peas - I GOTTA FEELING
• Taylor Swift - LOVE STORY
• Flo Rida - RIGHT ROUND
• Jason Mraz - I’M YOURS
• Beyonce - SINGLE LADIES (PUT A RING ON IT)
• Kanye West - HEARTLESS
• The All-American Rejects - GIVES YOU HELL
• Taylor Swift - YOU BELONG WITH ME
• T.I. Featuring Justin Timberlake - DEAD AND GONE
• The Fray - YOU FOUND ME
• Kings Of Leon - USE SOMEBODY
• Keri Hilson Featuring Kanye West & Ne-Yo - KNOCK YOU DOWN
• Jamie Foxx Featuring T-Pain - BLAME IT
• Pitbull - I KNOW YOU WANT ME (CALLE OCHO)
• T.I. Featuring Rihanna - LIVE YOUR LIFE
• Soulja Boy Tell ‘em Featuring Sammie - KISS ME THRU THE PHONE
• Jay Sean Featuring Lil Wayne - DOWN
• Miley Cyrus - THE CLIMB
• Drake - BEST I EVER HAD
• Kelly Clarkson - MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT YOU
• Beyonce - HALO
• Katy Perry - HOT N COLD

This just sounds painful to me

Guitarists' Brains Swing Together

ScienceDaily (Mar. 18, 2009) — When musicians play along together it isn't just their instruments that are in time – their brain waves are too. New research shows how EEG readouts from pairs of guitarists become more synchronized, a finding with wider potential implications for how our brains interact when we do.

Steven Page ventures out on his own

Steven Page, former lead singer of Barenaked Ladies, is working on a solo album, and he has an interesting blog post about the process.

Springsteen is ‘exactly where I want to be’

I think this is turning into a "All Bruce All The Time" blog ...

MSNBC.com

The Big Man keeps Rocking

Great article about E Street Band saxman Clarence Clemons. No matter what - surgeries, age, racism - he just keeps on rockin'.

Re-Meet The Beatles

PopMatters.com is saluting the genius that is the Fab Four with a month full of feature articles and blogs. Enjoy!

Geeks get a hold of Hey Jude

This is exactly what we need - a flow chart for "Hey Jude."



From the loveallthis.com blog.

So When Does the MEB get our White House Invite?

Lots of cool music has been happening at the White House, with lots more planned.

MSNBC.com

R.E.M. Rediscovers R.E.M.

This is a very interesting interview with Michael Stipe of R.E.M. He makes some interesting points about how you never know which of your songs will be popular.

Love this quote from Mike Mills:

"The fact is," Mills says, "that you never know what your best songs are. Losing my Religion is a five-minute song without a chorus where the main instrument is a mandolin — and it’s our biggest hit."

TimesOnlineUK