OK, we will post at my site, thanks to Kevin Guiney, to whom I will forever remain in debt for all his hard work on my and BT’s behalf. We are working on integrating a music player so you won’t have to leave Le Blogge. We will also be re-posting the back catalog of CotW, …
Cover of the Week 8 What Are You Doing New Years Eve Read More »
Interesting article on music in marketing by Jon Pareles in today’s Times. Nothing groundbreaking; even Jon seems unable to offer anything conclusive. http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Nice to see some other sites picking up on the Cover of the Week project. Bradley’s Almanac had an early post about it. Magnet Magazine takes notice here. http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
If I had a dollar for every time a girl/woman told me it’s not me it’s her… Our friend from way back, Juliana, graciously offers her version/explanation of the events described in my Dreaming post. Bill, it’s not you; it’s me. Don’t take it personally that I said I would sing on “Dreaming” and then …
Something I read in a magazine a few days ago set me off on one of those Google-search-digression nights and before I knew it was on to a dozen other things that tangentially looped off that original query. The thing that I had read in the magazine was the first third of a poem by …
The Byrds were one of the most important bands in rock & roll history, with mutual influences flowing two ways between them and Dylan and the Beatles. Without the Byrds there is no Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, no R.E.M., nor many other hugely significant bands. In fact, in a documentary about Petty, he is …
This is my brother, Tom. I was 16 when he was born. That makes him, lemme see…12. Lovely voice, lovely guitar. Sort of Ry Cooder meets John Fahey. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CffcHkVP7vM] http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
When I was maybe 19, just into college, a friend told me all about these cool new kids she had met in her apartment complex in Charlestown (a neighborhood of Boston). Or maybe she met them at a party or something. But they were students at Berklee College of Music and in this great band …
Cover of the Week 4 Dreaming/’Til the Next Goodbye Read More »
I want to say, hey, congratulations to my brother, Scott, and his band, the Great Bandini, for winning best local song, “One and One.” Also, I recall loving Wait Until Spring, Bandini, from John Fante, back when I read it close to 20 years back. Also, I have to say you should check out The …
Congratulations Bandini, Low Anthem, Ed V., Billy B and so many others….. Read More »
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