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The age of digging through CD bins at the local music store may be long gone. Our store has become much bigger and offers many more modes for listening. Do we want these songs physically on our computers, taking up hard drive space but linking to our ipods? Do we want to stream new music online as we browse websites? Do we want music downloads from websites or from our peers? Or do we want to make play-lists of our favorite songs to post on our social networking pages? As you can see, it takes a music guide to get you through this muck of online music options.

Myspace (www.myspace.com) quickly became one of the best sources of free music. In fact, many bands shut down their websites completely and relied solely on this social networking site to list their gigs and post new music. You can use their music guide to look for local music, bands that sound like other bands you like or music from a certain genre. On many pages, you can also buy music for 99 cents a song. The benefit of Myspace is the ability to listen to a number of songs by a particular artist, while also gaining access to music news, blogs, videos, photos, tour dates, merchandise and more. The downside is that you can’t usually save these songs on your computer; it’s mostly a streaming site, but sometimes you can save select songs or make them play on your Myspace page with a single click.

Another great resource in our music guide is Pandora Radio (www.pandora.com). This website has been dubbed “the music genome project” because it contains a vast wealth of famous music artists and new independent bands meticulously filed into categories based on melody, harmony, rhythm, instrumentation, arrangement and lyrics. Registration is free and supported by an occasional ad here and there, but users can type in a band or a song they like to get a whole personalized radio station created for them based on their favorites. Users can then give songs a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” to further tailor the station to their interests. The site proves to be a great way to find new music and also buy music, as you can bookmark songs and purchase them through Amazon.

Another indie artist music guide is Amie Street (www.amiestreet.com). This recommendation website works off your preferences and allows you to import data from your iTunes library, your Last FM feed, your Pandora radio preferences and favorite music from Facebook. After analyzing your music preferences, the site will offer similar recommendations, allowing you to rate those recommendations. The benefit is that you can find a lot of new music and buy music legally. The downside is just that you have to buy many of the tracks, although some come as cheap as 2? apiece.

Tim Somers
MusicHoncho.com

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Movies Coming Soon »

Don’t you just love the thrill of a much-anticipated “coming soon to a theater near you” announcement? Sometimes there are sequels that we’ve been dreaming of, while other times there are TV series remakes that we’ve been pining for. Some people follow actors they love, while others keep an eye on certain filmmakers or screenwriters. Whether you love action, horror, dramas or comedies, there is a motion picture coming out for you in the next year.

You’ll also find a number of top movies coming soon to a home theater near you as well. This month you can be on the look-out for movies TV shows releases like The Office, C.S.I., It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Law and Order, Grey’s Anatomy and Desperate Housewives. Finally, those who missed “X-men Origins: Wolverine” in theaters can catch it on DVD. Other recent DVD rentals available include State of Play, Disney’s Earth, Sugar, Duplicity, Fighting, Sunshine Cleaning, The Last House on the Left, Tyson, The Informers, I Love You Man, 17 Again and The Mutant Chronicles.

Movies news also lists new Blu Ray discs that are coming soon. Darren Aronofsky’s masterpiece, “Requiem For A Dream” will be out on Blu Ray this month, with added filmmaker commentaries from Director Darren Aronofsky and Director of Photography Matthew Libatique, a behind-the-scenes featurette, interviews with author Hubert Selby Jr and nine deleted scenes. “Gladiator” will have over four hours of bonus material and will also include an extended version of the motion picture. “Braveheart” also finally arrives in Blu Ray format and proves that it was worth waiting for with loads of interviews, interactive timelines, battle strategy analysis, historical segments and featurettes. “The Watchmen” holds a wonderland of special bonus features, including a first-of-its-kind “Maximum Movie Mode,” which allows the director to stand before you, pointing at two screens behind him — one playing the feature and one showing a behind-the-scenes shot. Trivia, comic comparisons, Watchmen bookmark-able focus points (attached to featurettes), graphic novel discussions, a vigilante documentary and new download content are all on this packed Blu Ray.

There are TV shows movies rumored to be coming soon as well. December 17, 2010 will see the release of the “Green Hornet” motion picture starring Seth Rogen, Stephen Chow and Cameron Diaz and directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind). “Thundercats” voice casting is currently underway for the full-length animated feature, being crafted by Gods of War video game artist Charlie Wen. In other videos news, a 2010 release is being planned for “The A-Team,” which will star Bradley Cooper as Lieutenant Peck, Liam Neeson as Colonel Smith and the UFC’s Quinton “Rampage” Jackson as Mr. T’s iconic character, Baracus. If you can believe it, there is also a 2010 release scheduled for a new rendition of “The Three Stooges,” starring Benicio del Toro as Moe, Paul Giamati as Larry and Jim Carrey to play Curly.

Tim Somers
MusicHoncho.com

Free MP3 Downloads and The Holding of Touring Mp3 Downloads Circles »

You know what I think by all of this. Sit and think about it for a moment: you sat on the cast up late one night, following E! or a similar carry, and speculative how it was that circles with such huge cult pursual have all appeared to disappear. (You were watching that factual on the Glad Dead-weren’t you?)

Or maybe you’re in the boat with those who still do accompany some ring or other-but we’ll talk almost you in a moment. See, free mp3 downloads have varied the cult coming to circles and how much someones succeed them.

Think about how pricey it is for bands to tour without a major label and the entire weight of the euphony business concern motorcar free music downloads foothold the bill. Let’s think about how that ponders in everything else: how pricy have concert slates become for consumers? It’s kind of screaming, all taken so by free mp3 downloads. It’s especially ridiculous in the concert scene when you realize you can get virtually of the highlighting on YouTube for next to nothing. Gone are the days of arriving to the show days early to park your VW bus, camp out, hook up and tune out. Arrived are the days of downloading everything fast and furiously, free mp3 downloads staining out every otherwise option.

Let’s talk specifics. For dance orchestras like Phish, Enjoyable Dead, Blues Traveler, and others, the Net doesn’t make in-person attendance a demand to be part of the scene. Blogs and RSS courses let people climb right on the bandwagon without anybody straight on top to toss of the freeloaders. As a result, there is less of a public vibe in general because of these artificial and virtual residential areas. Newer music fans aren’t as involved about virtuoso euphony performances-they don’t care if instrumentalists even really PLAY instrumentate at all-and, in fact, parody is fine, too.

Free mp3 downloads and other new engineering science have brought a lot of this about. Let’s take, for example, the fact that anybody with a webcam and a Casio can be an Internet rock star-I’m thinking of that band (maybe called GO! . . . ?) who winning that video that had all of the band fellow members singing the song on tread-wheel doing a ridiculous routine (all extremely well-executed), choreographed by the lead singer’s sister. The lead singer’s sister! Not even a band member-but she was like police chief of her high educate drill team or something. Next matter you knew, they were on the Weekly Show and the Colbert Report. Now, conceded, it was actually a really cute birdcall and the video did basically rock-but it was the visuals that literally sold the band.

Tim Somers
MusicHoncho.com

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Dishnetwork is a company that has a relentless commitment to customer satisfaction. To show how committed they are to customers, DishTV has provided tons of free upgrades to its subscribers. Some of these free upgrades include a free upgrade to high definition television as well as a free digital video recording device. If you have more than one television in your apartment that you need service on you even get service on that TV for free. That’s right! With Dish Network you get free service on an additional television for no additional monthly cost!

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Getting a free upgrade to high definition television is one of the coolest things about being a Dish Network subscriber. There’s honestly nothing better than relaxing in your apartment while watching your favorite shows on a crystal clear picture. Along with a free upgrade to high definition television you also get a free digital video recording device or DVR. A DVR allows you to pause, fast forward, rewind, and record live television directly from your remote. With a digital video recording device from Dish Network you can store up to ninety hours of your favorite recorded shows and movies.

If you like watching sports on television from your apartment then you have even more of a reason to sign up for a subscription to DishTV. With Dish TV you get tons of premium sports channels such as NBA League Pass, ESPN, NHL on Ice, and ESPN Game Day. ESPN Game Day is perhaps the best channel in the package because it provides you with access to hundreds of college basketball and football games from each NCAA season. Don’t forget, you get to watch these games in high definition because of your free upgrade to HD from Dish Network!

Dish Network Satellite TV is a great addition to any apartment. It can provide you with a great way to relax after a long day at work and it’s extremely affordable. By signing up for a Dish Network subscription you get premium service from a company that has a relentless commitment to customer satisfaction. What other company provides you with as many free upgrades as Dishnet does? Did you know that you still keep your basic local programming channels with Dish Network? A lot of people think they lose local channels with satellite television. This is one of the biggest myths surrounding satellite television! You actually receive more local channels than you would with the cable company!

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Tim Somers
MusicHoncho.com
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Amazing New R&B Performer On the Scene »

There’s a new Rhythm and Blues artist who just came into public view who makes hot new music, and he is shaking up everyone’s notions of what radio friendly, r&b, or pop tunes can be like. Traditionally, pop music has been thought of as fun fluff - meaning, it’s like cotton candy. Pleasant and fun for the moment but not what would be described as meaningful or substantial.

It generally focuses on a few ubiquitous subjects, such as falling in love or out of love, and it relies on about fifty rhyming words which show up in the millions of tunes put out by the hundreds of singers which all sound precisely the same (for example, “love” and “above” - you get the idea). This is the kind of music you would use if you had a personal trainer certification and teach an aerobics class. On the opposite extreme, you have what one would think of be described} as serious music. This would encompass types of music such as jazz or classical, or even lyrically witty and more grown up style bands such as Dave Matthews band. This genre is awesome, but is not what would be thought of as fun, or the type of music that would make you get up and dance. There’s serious music and then there’s fun music - and never the twain shall meet. Until now.

With his hit single Big for Me, Jd Webb is shifting those concepts and labels around. Prior to being given the review copy of Jd Webb’s Big for Me as a niche marketing webmaster with many music sites, admittedly, I was thinking it would be your usual R&B dance jam. “I give it a 10, it’s got a good beat, you can dance to it,” type of music. And Big for Me definitely is danceable fun for your iPod or for the club, to be sure. But it also explores a deeper idea. It’s not just about that overwhelming feeling of first attraction - it’s about a protagonist who is surprised when seeing himself making considerations in his life to accommodate his love interest and be more conducive to their shared life. It’s not his usual behavior, which is the reason he says, “That’s Big for Me.”

The song takes the idea of falling in love and explores it in a way that is deeper and more fascinating than the surface. And any person that’s been in love can tell you that the emotions on that level of love are just as strong and just as wonderful as the first attraction - actually, more so! In the same way, Webb’s music has taken the Pop genre and taken it to a level that’s deeper and more interesting. And, just like love itself, that’s made it so much fuller and richer - and infinitely better.

Tim Somers
MusicHoncho.com
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