Holy crap! An 80’s inspired video with references to Katamari, Shamu, and Tilt-A-Whirl.

Could a music video be more frighteningly awesome??

Do you love disco, funk, and a little bit of fun? The get on The Groove Train. This Friday, May 23rd, The Groove Train plays an all ages show at the Charlottesville Pavilion. The show starts at at 5:30 PM.

More show info here

[my co-worker and friend, Ruth, is the lead singer]

Skee-be doop. Skee-be doop. Biddly bip bap bip. Ze dap. BOP!

Teagan, my six-year-old daughter, has been bippity bopping around the house lately, putting her movements to music in what can only be described as scat. Never wanting to miss an opportunity to introduce great music to my kids, I put together a playlist of songs for her that included the following:

Mumbles - Clark Terry & Oscar Peterson Trio
I Wan’na Be Like You (The Monkey Song) - Louis Prima & Phil Harris
Them There Eyes - Anita O’Day
Lullaby of Birdland - Clifford Brown & Sarah Vaughan
Annie’s Lament - Annie Ross
Love Me or Leave Me - Sammy Davis Jr.
Potato Chips - Slim Gaillard
Stompin’ at the Savoy - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

...but not on iTunes.

AC/DC has decided to sign an stupid exclusive deal with Verizon’s VCast service.

Kristen Nicole at Mashable! writes:

“The band has instead decided to sign a contract with Verizon V Cast for the sales and distribution of its music. This has been noted by some as a pretty dumb move–iTunes sells a lot of music. Others say it’s smart, as the band can get more money from Verizon for the deal, and sign with iTunes at a later date. No matter which way you slice it, the point seems to be that some bands don’t think that selling through iTunes is a fair deal.”

Read Kristen’s full post here: AC/DC Sells Music through Verizon–Not iTunes

I guess I’m going to have to break down and order CDs to replace all that vinyl that’s wasting away in the closet.

After hearing a story on NPR the other day about Stile Anitco, I decided to download their album, “Music for Compline”.

The recording, both moving and joyously calming, recently received the Diapason d’Or and Choc du Monde de la Musique awards.

You can listen to samples of their work here: http://www.stileantico.co.uk/listen.php

I’m testing out the new Gmail integration in Google Reader and I have to say, I love it. You can ignore this post…but you shouldn’t ignore The Zimmers. ROCK ON!

(Great Abby Road bit around the 3 min mark)

Sent via Google Reader:

Meet the Zimmers - World’s Oldest Rock Band

via B.L. Ochman’s weblog - Internet and corporate blogging strategy, and online marketing trends, with news and commentary by BL Ochman on May 01, 2007

I love this video!!! When I’m 90, I want to be one of their dancing girls.

Rock on!

via Vaspers the Grate

Just wanted to send some thanks to Peter Solomon over at 88.9 FM for getting me home in the right frame of mind tonight. That was one heck of a day.

If you don’t normally tune in, check out Peter’s show starting at 7:00 PM on WCVE (playlists).

I’m buying a treadmill.

Looking for a way to burn off a few holiday pounds? Don’t bother lugging out that DDR mat. Instead, fire up the treadmill and get your groove on with the new album from Ok Go.

There’s more music here.

Live at Blues Alley

Jacqui was in DC Tuesday night for two shows at Blues Alley.

I’ll leave the review of the show to the critics (I’m way too biased) but I will say that the 8pm show was just a warm up for the one at 10pm.

Man oh man, talk about hot - especially her Led Zeppelin based version of Black Coffee. I think everybody in the place was grinning from ear to ear after that one.

Art Khu and crew, despite not having played together as a group before, communicated well and kept it tight for the entire evening.

Hallelujah!

I’m passing this on for my uncle, Noël Lovelace, Minister of Music at Central Union Church, on the off chance any one will be in Honolulu on Sunday, December 3rd.

Spreading the love for Mat.

Thanks for the link Carol (who, oddly enough, doesn’t have her own web site. What gives?). I stand corrected. Carol DOES have a web site.

My neighbor pointed me to this post on his brother’s blog today.