NY Times Piece on Music and Marketing
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
Magnet Magazine Mention
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
Juliana Hatfield Responds to Post
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 …
Cover of the Week 7 Slip Slidin’ Away
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 …
Cover of the Week 6 In a Misty Morning
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 …
Another, Younger Janovitz
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
Cover of the Week 4 Dreaming/’Til the Next Goodbye
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 …
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Congratulations Bandini, Low Anthem, Ed V., Billy B and so many others…..
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 …
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Are You Excited for the Faces Reunion?
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Further on Kenney Jones
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