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Not that anyone cares about this but me… but it is my blog so…
Dakoda Motor Co is back together and touring and they’ll be at Cornerstone California!
This is good for those of us that like loud guitars… noisy drums… and girl singers that rock.
I think their old stuff is available at iTunes nowadays…
This is the [...]

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As you’ll notice if you see my last.fm chart next week, I’ve gotten into the music of Five For Fighting lately.
I had heard the most popular songs, but I’m impressed with the depth of the songs on each record. If you haven’t listed to anything other than Superman and 100 Years, you are missing out [...]

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I guess this news has been out there for a while, but I just read about it yesterday.
The Parachute Band is one of my favorite bands… they play modern praise & worship… but with a very unique sound. I discovered their music about 4-5 years ago and I think they are special.
Well… they WERE special… [...]

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I’ve been using this little program for a while and it has become one that I feel like I can’t live without. Of course, I *could* live without it… but I think you know what I mean…
Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher for Windows
From the website:
Launchy is a free windows utility designed to [...]

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I blogged here about the seminars Sean C and I attended at the Cornerstone Festival. I promised a wrapup about the bands we saw… so here it is.
I’ll give a little summary for each, but not any kind of “rating” because everyone we saw was great… I was impressed by everyone that we actually watched.
After [...]

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Maybe a big change coming up at lastfm… Here’s a screen grab at 10:45 CDT.

Hopefully we won’t have to wait too long to find out. Hmmm…. hopefully it isn’t shutting down.
 Update: LastFM is back up… and the most obvious change is that they added the album art to your recently played tracks and put your [...]

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As you know… Sean C and I went to the Cornerstone Festival last week. What a blast. It was a great experience and we thought we’d report back with this short list of tips we gathered during our experience.
We camped during our stay… July 5 through 9… and we had the chance to hear some [...]

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Whoa… I shouldn’t have downloaded Windows Media Player 11.
IT ROCKS! and I’m having WAY too much fun playing music with it. I still have TONS of things to do and I’m looking at album art……. aarrrgggghhhhh!
If you use Windows Media Player already… this is a MUST HAVE UPGRADE. If you don’t use it already… you’ll [...]

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In my opinion… if you have a lot of stuff to get done… and it is stuff that doesn’t require quietness… or stillness… then listening to The Choir is very helpful as background music…
It sure is working well for me today.
thechoir.net

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Last.fm is a FREE service which tracks music you play on your computer and produces charts of what you played… as well as comparing what you listen to with other people and making suggestions of new artists. There is also the opportunity to interact with other Last.fm users on the website although I don’t get [...]

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