Music Notes

been meaning to mention a few interesting things on the music front:

• Indie Christian Folk-Rocker, Derek Webb has founded a new website/service called NoiseTrade. You can download entire albums in exchange for whatever you deem the right price to pay or by giving three e-mail addresses of friends in exchange. The more people discover this music, theoretically, the more the artists will sell. Mostly bands nobody but their friends have heard of (from what I can tell), but a few known acts. Like Sixpence, for example.
  
  
  


• They got knocked down, but they got up again...Remember that 1997 'can't get out of your head' classic, "Tubthumping"? (I've now got it stuck in most of your heads, and it'll stay there 'til you sleep and/or click this link) I remember when the band Chumbawamba was on The Tonight Show, they sported T-Shirts that read "One Hit Wonder." That might have been a self-fulfilling prophecy, but more likely was good foresight. Anywho, everyone's favorite anarachist band is still kicking--and still changing. Check out their MySpace page for some of their folk music--that's right, I said folk music. (pretty good, too)
• Last, and definitely least...Hide your children (particularly young teen girls), lock the doors, bar the windows, firewall your iTunes. Ace Young--the American Idol finalist with Constantine Maroulis' stare, a little more talent than Sanjaya, and a silly wool cap--has finally dashed my hopes and released his debut album. (knew it was coming after his appearance on Bones where I tried not to cheer too much that he was the victim)