Posts Tagged ‘Music’

Tunesday: Joe Satriani – Silent Night/Holy Night Jam

Posted: 8th December 2009 by Craig Rettig in Entertainment
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From the album Merry Axemas – A Guitar Christmas.

Tunesday: Toxicity by two violins and drums

Posted: 17th November 2009 by Craig Rettig in Entertainment
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I’m not a System of a Down fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I really like this cover by these three ladies. For as young as they appear to be, their musical skills are impressive.

Tunesday: Nightwish – The Islander

Posted: 10th November 2009 by Craig Rettig in Entertainment
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Nightwish is a symphonic power metal band from Kitee, Finland, and was one of the first melodic female-fronted metal bands. Originally fronted by classical-opera-trained Tarja Turunen, a split forced them to find a new singer, the more mainstream-sounding Anette Olzon. I had the pleasure of seeing them live this past summer, and they were amazing. [...]

Free classical music CD from Amazon.com

Posted: 15th October 2009 by Craig Rettig in Entertainment
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As a veritable connoisseur of free stuff (hey, who isn’t?), I happened to find this rather nice album from Amazon.com’s MP3 section. The entire album is available as downloadable DRM-free MP3 files. I’m not sure how long it’ll be available for free, so you’d better snag it up now if you’re interested.

SomaFM – My new love

Posted: 26th September 2009 by Craig Rettig in Entertainment
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While SomaFM has been around for a while, I never gave it a serious listen until this week, and I must say I’m now hooked, especially on the Secret Agent station. The majority of SomaFM’s stations contain ambient music with little to no lyrics, which makes them perfect for working on the computer, since lyrics [...]

Driving Music

Posted: 17th April 2009 by Craig Rettig in Entertainment
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AMOG published its list of The 24 Most Dangerous Driving Songs of All Time, and it’s excellent, to say the least. Because I liked it so much, I went to Grooveshark and created a playlist of the suggested songs.