I just love the "My Blueberry Nights" soundtrack (you can listen to the whole thing here). The Cat Power song "The Greatest" is one of my faves...

Quoted: My Blueberry Nights (2007) soundtrack. Featuring Norah Jones, Cat Power, Cassandra Willson and Otis Redding from a new new film by Wong Kar Wai (2046, In the Mood for Love). Starring Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Tim Roth and Norah Jones.

Oh man, I really want to go to this! Perhaps for my b-day...

Quoted: DjangoFest returns to Whidbey Island for a five-day festival celebrating the music and spirit of the great French/Belgian Gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt.

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Joseph Arthur's "In the Sun" is a great song to begin with, but Michael Stipe's lead vocals (and Chris Martin's backing vocals) suit this song really well. This is such a lovely cover. Man, I still love Stipe - what a voice!

Quoted: R.E.M. lead singer Micheal Stipe sings a cover of Joseph Arthur's "In the Sun" with Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin.

Love Moby's latest album. He's an artist I've continued to like over the years, even as his sound changes... I miss living above his tea shop! Such tasty vegan desserts...

Quoted: MySpace music profile for Moby with tour dates, songs, videos, pictures, blogs, band information, downloads and more.

Sad! He had been battling melanoma for a while. You probably have heard his fantastic glockenspiel and organ playing on Born to Run.

Quoted: Danny Federici, one of the original members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, died Thursday. He was 58.

Bruce for president!

Quoted: Rock star Bruce Springsteen, troubadour of the working class, endorses Obama for president.

I see where the writer is going, but it's not an easy call. This doesn't really work for CDs/books that never have the promise of selling big in the first place...

Quoted: What should record labels, software giants, & other media companies do about digital piracy? There are two options: Get tough and defend intellectual-property rights with every legal & technological trick in the book, or tolerate some illegal copying in the hope of generating buzz & making money in some other way.

Sounds like a really interesting staging of Philip Glass' conceptual opera on Mahatma Gandhi's road to truth.

Quoted: This is a fitting time to revisit Philip Glass’s opera “Satyagraha,” a landmark work of Minimalism.

A slide show by yours truly on how Steinways are made. I really want to take this factory tour, it sounds awesome.

Quoted: Join us on a virtual tour of the Steinway & Sons factory in New York and see steps of the piano-making process.