Do you like all the album names of your favorite artists? I am not talking about the albums themselves, but their names. Some bands get really creative and some occasionally get creative. Often, bands just pick a name (which is usually the band’s name) and keep numbering the name, as they release more records. Boring, right?
Fun, Random Album Name Generators and Why You Might Want to Use Them

Dear @amandapalmer,
There’s no easy way to say this, but I think we need a break. As a novice Twitterer, there was a certain excitement to seeing your name on my front page every three minutes; I mean, how else would I know how much wine you were drinking or how many emails you hadn’t answered. It was like we really were best friends [even though you probably wouldn’t answer my emails]. Even when you went on tour and somehow managed to find time to play music in between expressing your …

Amazon has published their take on the 100 greatest jazz albums of all time. I had a great time going through this list, remembering music that I hadn’t heard in a long, long time and I also discovered a few albums (and musicians) that I still hadn’t been turned on to.
Here is the list below – check it out, and leave your comments on whether or not you think any album was missed (don’t forget, this is albums , not musicians ) and if there is anything in the …

I always like to wonder about what my favorite musicians listen to. It helps me discover new music and it’s also fun to find out what music inspires the musicians that have inspired me.
Every once in a while I read an interview with one of my favorite bands and they mention some albums they like.  I’ll  usually check them out and it’s amazing how many great bands I’ve found this way that  I never would have been turned on to otherwise.
Well, Amazon decided to get a whole ton of  musicians …

Twitter is an ever-more-popular social networking tool for people and companies to use to send messages and stay in touch with people. If you’re not familiar with twitter, it’s basically like the status line of Facebook, but with some extra (very minimal) messaging components.
A lot of people are using twitter to stay in touch and talk (including a lot of bands), so there are usually a lot of conversations flying around, all of which are publicly accessible.
The interesting part about this is that twitter gives you the ability to …