Black Gasoline is the ultimate MySpace band, summed up in one sentence from the band’s MySpace bio: “With its debut album She Gave Us Magic, Black Gasoline demonstrates exactly why it has lon...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2008/04/02/man-about-myspace-black-gasoline/
The ideas for M-A-MySp flow in from many directions. This week, cruising to 7:30 A.M. Easter Mass in the family road barge, the radio was getting scanned for March Madness knowledge and updates. ...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2008/03/26/man-about-myspace-kasim-sulton/
This one’s for the club freaks out there, who like their music mixed and remixed, uptempo and downtempo. Radioactive Sandwich, an NYC duo, does the breakbeat-psychedelic thing MySpace style, an...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2008/03/19/man-about-myspace-radioactive-sandwich/
Want to get your head caved in with a serious dose of 1960s-style guitar fuzz and simple-yet-addictive pop cuts that evoke a pre-digital era when the Beatles were king, a group like The Monkees c...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2008/03/05/man-about-myspace-tres-bien/
There are several ladies on MySpace who go by the moniker Sista B, but only one is a 56-year-old nun who releases records on CDBaby. Sister Rebecca Shinas, as she’s known in the ‘hood, might ...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2008/02/13/man-about-myspace-rockin-sista-b/
Venerable pre-punk maniac Iggy Pop, who started kicking around Detroit almost exactly 40 years ago right now, is still alive and kicking, so writes Travis Hay of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. N...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2008/02/06/man-about-myspace-iggy-themartians/
Few musicians the United States produced have had the multi-generational impact—yet are as little-known—as Professor Longhair. Pound for pound one of the most singularly ingenious and origina...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2008/01/30/man-about-myspace-professor-longhair/
If we did Thee Almighty Handclaps last week, why not stick with the same theme this week? Straight outta Brooklyn is Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, some sort of trainwreck between Pavement, Sebadoh, a...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2008/01/23/man-about-myspace-clap-your-hands-say-yeah/
Few things warm the cockles of a garage-rock fan’s heart than discovering a current band that shares the lo-fi ethos of the crappy-sounding 1960s pop bands that recorded their best work on used...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2008/01/16/man-about-myspace-thee-almighty-handclaps/
Oh my gosh. So, just poking around for new angles on MySpace Music led to a Digg article on Band Jammer spyware developed by devious hackers who, apparently, feel that there’s money to be made ...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2008/01/09/man-about-myspace-a-new-dawn/
“Rökning Dödar.” It’s on every Finnish pack of cigarettes, covering half the front panel. Big and bold. Finns know it to mean “Smoking kills,” but to us less literate English speaking...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2008/01/02/man-about-myspace-the-sharp-chuckies/
Hey kids, not to be outdone by Radiohead, MySpace and Pennywise announced today that they’re going to team up and offer the Cali punk outfit’s next record–in its entirety–as a free downlo...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2007/12/26/man-about-myspace-pennywise-for-less-than-one-cent/
Boston’s best-kept musical secret probably will remain such forever. But you, now, are privy to this instrumental band that sounds kinda like Chet Atkins on acid. Or Les Paul on some sort of ot...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2007/12/19/man-about-myspace-the-weisstronauts/
While MySpace hosts plenty of original artists doing original music, there’s room for a lot more than that. Yeah, we’re talking about cover bands. Or “tribute bands,” as these tireless wa...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2007/12/05/man-about-myspace-cover-me-badd/
“Bomp is doing everything we can think of to salvage what’s useful from the music industry’s pending bankruptcy. We are trying to preserve the best of alternative music culture from the cre...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2007/11/28/man-about-myspace-bomp-records/
Kids, if you dig DJs, MySpace is a great place to explore. The coolest thing I did when signing up for MySpace was enlist Fatboy Slim, the Bassbin Twins, and Adam Freeland to be my friends. Awwww...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2007/11/21/man-about-myspace-dj-silence/
We get a lot of new music CDs from up-and-coming bands here at Bullz-Eye, and while we don’t always have the bandwidth to review them all, they don’t deserve to fall through the cracks. Thus ...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2007/11/14/man-about-myspace-motion-turns-it-on/
As an old-time Apple apologist and–in one of my other lives–a computer journalist who’s closely followed the industry for a couple decades, I’ve become more and more fed up with the compa...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2007/11/07/man-about-myspace-that-ipod-commercial-again/
The Billy Gibson Band is perfect for MySpace: They play blues, which has a national fan base that’s sparse but passionate–in fact, one might argue that the Internet kept blues alive, hooking ...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2007/10/31/man-about-myspace-billy-gibson-band/