I don’t know Joshua Bell – apparently he is a violinist and one of the best musicians in the world.  This is the real story of Joshua Bell playing incognito in a Washington D.C. metro station and no one really noticed except for a few souls. Read more »

Pearl Jam’s premiere in MySpace screams sellout but, hey, if none of the bands I adore sell out, I wouldn’t have heard of them.

Evenflow… thoughts arrive like butterflies.
He don’t know… so he chases them away.

Francis M. passed away yesterday and I could say I was shocked. My wife and I were just wondering several days ago why there have been no updates on his website.  I even suggested that they may have been very busy with therapies and such.

Francis Magalona is one of the domestic musicians I admire from sheer talent alone.  I came to know about him when I was very young.  I think he was an actor first before transforming into a very talented musician.  I really liked his music when I was in high school.  I used to memorize his early rap songs especially Mga Kababayan Ko! Read more »

A lot of people have been discussing that this song is about the past, present and the future.  Neil Young says it depends on what he was taking at the time.  Genius? Crazy? Crazy Genius?

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights In armor coming, saying something about a queen.
There were peasants singing and drummers drumming, and the archer split the tree.
There was a fanfare blowing to the sun that was floating on the breeze.
Look at Mother Nature on the run in the nineteen seventies.
Look at Mother Nature on the run in the nineteen seventies.

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Arguably, the album that revolutionized rock n roll… and launched grunge into mainstream.

The baby in the album is now a teenager. He’s seventeen years old and thinks it would have been cooler to be a teen in the 90’s.  I couldn’t agree with him more. Although I still think my teen life in the 90’s sucked, the rock music scene at that time was much more intense. His name is Spencer Elden, by the way.