When MTV was launched in 27 years ago, its purpose was to play music videos. This noble concept gave way to a pop culture phenomenon, forever changing the dynamic of celebrity culture. MTV became the place to spot the next big thing, and played a huge role in the break-out careers of artists like […]
Entries from May 2008
What’s the Big Deal With MTV?
May 31st, 2008 by Kimberlee Morrison · No Comments
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The Artist in Profile: Girl in a Coma
May 29th, 2008 by Jacob Nicolas · No Comments
You may remember, long before Listen In was formed, I wrote a concert review for a show I saw almost a year ago, of Girl in a Coma performing at a local grocery store. Since that time GIAC have officially made it big, touring around the country and overseas opening for Morrissey, not to mention […]
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TBTMTU: Into The Groove
May 28th, 2008 by Jacob Nicolas · No Comments
This weeks They Bring the Music to Us feature is Into The Groove which you can find at poptastic.blogspot.com, and it will certainly leave a pastel colored imprint in your daily blog viewing.
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Press Play: A Review of Mark Pickerel And His Praying Hands’ Cody’s Dream
May 26th, 2008 by Steve Mock · No Comments
Mark Pickerel makes a good record. Cody’s Dream is a rollicking trip of deft lyricism, journeyman musicianship and outright charm. The former Screaming Tress drummer and elsewise able sideman has here assembled 13 tracks both cinematic and intimate in their evocation of a trippy American panoramic.
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Press Play: Flobots’ Fight With Tools
May 26th, 2008 by Colin Wonnacott · No Comments
Hot on the heels of receiving major radio airplay of their hit “Handlebars,” Denver-based hip-hop/rock band Flobots are quickly becoming a popular crossover sensation with their second album Fight With Tools.
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Listening In Live: Tim Fite at the Troubadour
May 22nd, 2008 by Kimberlee Morrison · No Comments
The stage was set with a faux boom-box, a projection screen, a table and two mics. The showroom of the Troubadour was beginning to fill up and people had already staked out the area in front and center of the stage. Lights began flashing here and there, the smoke machine created a subtle cloud and […]
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The Artist in Profile: Melody Gardot
May 22nd, 2008 by Eric Atienza · No Comments
In 2004, a 19 year old Melody Gardot was struck on her bicycle by a Jeep making an illegal turn. The accident left her with a shattered pelvis – she still uses a cane to get around – hyper-sensitivity to light and sound – she never takes off her dark glasses and earplugs – and […]
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What’s New In Music: 5/21/08
May 21st, 2008 by Brandon Kiser · No Comments
In the music world, things are constantly changing. Bands form, break up, reunite and release singles. In the journalism department it’s our job to track it all for you. Every week, Listen In tries to bring in the most important and newsworthy events together in what we call the What’s New In Music feature. Typically […]
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Muxtape Hacked!
May 21st, 2008 by Jacob Nicolas · No Comments
You may remember the feature we at Listen In did on Muxtape, the new service which allows you to upload any 12 songs which can then be played through any computer with an internet connection.
At approximately 2:30pm today (Wed. May 21st), it was noticed that everyone’s Muxtape, yes even yours, displayed 12 of the same […]
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TBTMTU: A Plague of Angels
May 20th, 2008 by Jacob Nicolas · No Comments
I can not tell you how much I wish I had discovered today’s They Bring The Music To Us featured blog earlier. To me (and I suspect to music fans in general) A Plague of Angels is more like blessing of angels, that is if those angels gave you a bunch of .mp3s every day.
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