…is now available for purchase.  As soon as Best Buy gets it, I’m on it (6 months same as cash and reward zone points baby).  Link and link.

This would be more fun if I knew what the heck I was doing, but for those of you who know drums or piano, you may find this flash based instrument composer entertaining.

Damn it!  I JUST BOUGHT my 4gig iPod nano.  This summer Apple will be releasing their 8gig and 10gig versions.  Not that I need the space because I just have a few podcasts that I run with.  What gets me is, the 4gig will drop in price and/or become obsolete soon after.  I could have found one on eBay for a lot less.

iTunes has 2 new features that I’m looking forward to using.  The first is a new way to lookup commercial songs that you hear on TV…which is pretty cool I think.  Second, is a feature called “as heard on” which, when clicked, pulls up different popular shows (like American Idol) and lists the music that viewers may have heard while watching.

Had to write and share some good tidings that Pickens experienced today. First, KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick personally wrote Pickens tonight about a CD he has coming out soon. Yeah, your thinking “no way?!” Well, I’m not joking…totally bad ass. I’ve seen the email first hand.

Second, and just as amazing, Pickens and his old crew are getting back together to re-record Scene Of The Crime (SOTC), and record some new music as well.

But all of this is for not, without a good ass-kicking band name. The guys need your help. First, download their home-grown recording of SOTC. This is a raw sample of what’s to come…as this will be the first track to be re-recorded with deeper bass, meaner guitar tones, and other “shitting in your pants”, in your face rock. While you have SOTC screaming in your ear, think of some good band names.

Post your responses here and if the name you choose is selected, you’ll be one of the first to receive the new recorded songs before they are released to the world.

Thanks everyone…

This is a pretty cool music video. Enjoy.

These are 2 rather large (2gig and 840mb) torrent files containing the performances of a ton of bands at SXSW. I’m downloading now and once I do I’ll post my review of the bands. Here’s the link.

For some odd reason, I found this speed metal video amusing.  It’s either the hair, the beer, or the awesome “shaking camera” effects that make this such a great video.  Link to YouTube.

A nice tutorial on using iTunes to backup and syncronize your music collection.  Link.

I’ve got a 60gig iPod photo.  I’m not even 1/3 of the way to filling it up and to be honest, I still haven’t gotten on the “iPod is King” bandwagon.  I love my iPod but had I not received this as a gift, I’m not sure if I would have purchased one myself…well, yeah I probably would have because iTunes rocks.

Either way, here is a great article on setting up your iTunes for importing your music in the best possible way.  The author of this post is an engineer in the sound industry and did a lot of research for this.