Morning rants about music and live shows.

Woke up on my own this morning at approx 7:45. That's an unusual change from my usual battle with the alarm's sleep button. Apparently I forgot to set the alarm. Oh well.


I did find some interesting stuff this morning via TechCrunch, specifically a service called Podbop that provides RSS feeds per city that contain event info and music samples for bands soon to be playing in your area. Check out the Podbop page for Orlando Florida.

I really really like it. The web interface for listening to samples is really cool, with little flash preview buttons/sliders to run each sample. The only odd thing about the whole experience was that starting one sample did not shut off a previously playing sample. This could get a bit odd when you have Flogging Molly running alongside Electric Six.

I really cant forgive myself for not checking out The Crystal Method when they were here in Orlando. In fact I think the only live concert i've attended since I have been here is one put on at the Hard Rock Live in Orlando, featuring Hoobastank. That was an incredible concert. They put on an excellent live show, and I was fortunate enough to hear a lot of their older songs that I had never heard via radio before. I miss attending Edgefest in Albuquerque NM back in the high school days. It was hot as hell, but with a local stage and a headliner stage running almost the entire day, there was no shortage of stuff to do. This was back when they held it at the state fair grounds. I dont know where they do it now, or even if they still do it.

I remember one year Limp Bizkit was playing, and the mayor had the city power shut off to that part of the fairgrounds at 10 or 11pm, something stupid. I think the festival was on a sunday or something and they had made an agreement to run the festival from morning until 10. No idea. Would be interesting to find out what happened. This is of course back when the "Did it all for the Nookie" song was a popular thing. Did everclear play at that edgefest? I cant remember. Oh well. Fun times. Almost as good as my first Rob Zombie concert.