Cover Me Crazy!

23. February 2009 · Filed under: Mixtapes, Music · 13 Comments 

For my latest and freshest mixtape, I’ve decided to include 23 tracks of awesome covers of equally awesome songs.

Tracks featured:

Free Fallin’ – John Mayer, Original by Tom Petty
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow – Amy Winehouse, Original by The Shirelles
Sweet Child O’ Mine – Taken By Trees, Original by Guns N’ Roses
Crazy – Ray Lamontangue, Original by Gnaryls Barkley
Manic Monday – Bonnie Pink, Original by The Bangles
You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me – She & Him, Original by The Miracles
Nothing Compares 2 U – Stereophonics, Original by Sinead O’Conner
Bitches Ain’t Shit – Ben Folds, Original by Dr. Dre
Bizarre Love Triangle – Frente!, Original by New Order
Dreams – The Corrs, Original by Stevie Nicks
Don’t Dream It’s Over – Sixpence None The Richer, Original by Crowded House
Time After Time – Eva Cassidy, Original by Cyndi Lauper
Drive – Deftones, Original by The Cars
Dancing With Myself - Nouvelle Vague, Original by Billy Idol
Careless Whisper – The Gossip, Original by George Michael
Fortunate Son – Cat Power, Original by CCR (Creedance Clearwater Revival)
Just Like Heaven – Katie Melua, Original by The Cure
King of Pain – Alanis Morissette, Original by The Police
Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World (Medley) – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, Originals by Judy Garland & Louis Armstrong
Billie Jean – Chris Cornell, Original by Michael Jackson
I Want You Back – KT Tunstall, Original by Jackson 5
Wonderwall – Ryan Adams, Original by Oasis

If you like any of the songs listed above, support the artist by purchasing them.

Apple iTunes

Music + Twitter = Love

23. February 2009 · Filed under: Music, Social Media · 58 Comments 

As an avid music lover and prolific Twitter user, I love to share music on my timeline. With the popularity of Twitter growing drastically every day, there are more and more sites that are making sharing music on Twitter easier. I’ve compiled a list of some cool sites to check out. If you don’t see one that you know listed, please leave a link in the comments so I can add it to the list!

Music + Twitter = Love

Last.fm

Okay, this social music site has been around for a while, but if you use Last.fm and Twitter, why not integrate them? You can add your latest tweets to your Last.fm sidebar or you can use Twitterfeed and feed your last played songs into your profile. Just visit Twitterfeed, set up the account, and grab the RSS feed from your Last.fm page and select how often and how many songs you want to feed from your recent activity. Very cool tool!

If you want to add Twitter to your Last.fm profile page, you can see an example on my profile here. Just visit LastTweet.com, enter your username, style, and you are done!

Another cool site for Last.fm and Twitter is LastFMTweetLove. Here you can enter your Twitter and Last.fm information and every time you “love” a song on Last.fm, it will tweet it to your profile.

Blip.fm

Blip.fm works like Twitter, but instead of just tweeting, you are actually “blipping” a song as well. The cool thing about Blip.fm is that you can not only be your own DJ, but you can set up your Twitter account under Blip.fm’s settings tab and whenever you “blip” a song, it will tweet to your profile. Plus, since this is a social service, you can enter a message that will be included with the link to the song. Very sweet! (If you want to “scrobble” your blips to your Last.fm profile, you can set that up under settings as well.) Follow @Blipfm on Twitter for updates to their site.

TinySong.com

The wonderful thing about TinySong.com is that you can enter any song you want to share on Twitter into the search box, which then gives you a list of songs to choose from. Once you’ve found the song you want to share, you select it and it automatically creates a tinyurl of the song link and auto-copies it to your clipboard which you can then tweet and when someone clicks on it, it will play the song on Grooveshark. You don’t need a Grooveshark account to hear the music!

Twisten.fm

Speaking of Grooveshark, they made a cool site where you can log into your Twitter account and listen to music that people are sharing through Twitter. Their tagline sums it up: “Twisten.fm crawls Twitter for tweets about music. Then you listen to them.” Got it? Good.

Tweettj.com

tweettj.com is a pretty kickass site that lets you “discover the music people are tweeting about”. It lists recent tweets with links to the Twitter profiles and songs, and also lists the top music artist being tweeted. You can follow @tweettj on Twitter.

Song.ly

Song.ly is another very cool, yet simple site to share music on Twitter. You can add the URL of an mp3 file or type in a song name and search. On their front page it states:

Sounds cool to me! Follow @Song_ly here on Twitter here.

Twiturm

Twiturm.com is sorta kinda like the ones listed above, but it works differently in the sense that you can actually upload songs that you can’t find on other music databases and then tweet them. Follow @Twiturm on Twitter here.

8tracks.com

Okay, 8tracks.com isn’t really something you just integrate into Twitter, but if you like making and listening to mixtapes, you can make a mix there and tweet the link to your mix on Twitter. People can leave comments in your 8tracks account about your mix and you can follow other DJ’s. You can follow @8tracks on Twitter as well.

Songza.com

Songza.com is a pretty nifty music site that allows you to search for a song or artist. When it pulls the results, you can click on the song you want and it gives you the option to share. Once you hover over “share”, you will see “Twitter This” on the left and when you click it, it pops up a box to add your information in as well as a message and that’s it! Nice and neat! You can also follow @Songza on Twitter.

I hope you enjoyed this list and remember to leave a comment if there are any other sites out there I should add to this list! Share the music and spread the love!

If I Were A Bro

13. February 2009 · Filed under: Videos · 4 Comments 

Oh, yeah! Another funny ass video from College Humor! :lol:

“But you’re just a bro, so you do not understand why when you do not take a shower, you only get a job from a hand…”

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

The Girl with Vomit Eyes

12. February 2009 · Filed under: Poetry · 2 Comments 

I’m a big fan of spoken word poetry and I wanted to share this one. The poet is Oscar S. Cisneros. The poem is called The Girl with Vomit Eyes. You can listen to him perform it by playing the audio file and the words are included below. Keep reading if you would like to read them along with the track.

The Girl with Vomit Eyes (written & performed by Oscar S. Cisneros)

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Read more

Fab Female R&B/Neo Soul Artists

12. February 2009 · Filed under: Mixtapes, Music · 6 Comments 

For this mixtape from 8tracks, I decided to go with 13 different female rhythm & blues/neo soul artists. The women featured Alicia Keys, Amy Winehouse, Corinne Bailey Rae, Erykah Badu, Kate Nash, Mary J. Blige, Groove Theory, Jill Scott, Joss Stone, Whitney Houston, Duffy, Lauryn Hill, & Rihanna.

Some of the tracks are fresh, some of them are oldies but goodies, but all of them are great. ;) Enjoy!

If you like any of the songs, please support the artist by purchasing them.

Apple iTunes

1000 Bills (In Imago Speramus)

11. February 2009 · Filed under: Videos · 1 Comment 

This is a totally awesome video I found on Vimeo. I love the dialogue with it. Two thumbs up for this one!

1000 Bills (In Imago Speramus) from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

Psychology

11. February 2009 · Filed under: Jokes · 3 Comments 

:lol: A short and funny joke for you all. This one made me laugh my ass off!

A husband and wife were sitting watching a TV program about psychology when he turned to his wife and said, “Honey, I bet you can’t tell me something that will make me happy and sad at the same time.”

She said, “You have the biggest penis of all your friends.”

90′s Rock Extravaganza

02. February 2009 · Filed under: Mixtapes, Music · 4 Comments 

It’s time for a new mixtape from 8tracks so I’ve decided the theme for this tape is going to be some kick ass rock songs from the 1990′s. I grew up listening to this stuff and I love all of these tracks.

The 90′s represent a lot of things to me and bring back a lot of memories. Now dive it!

If you like any of the songs, please support the artist by purchasing them.

Apple iTunes

An Addictive Additive

02. February 2009 · Filed under: Music, Videos · Leave a Comment 

My bud Andy is a badass musician. He plays the drums, guitar, & god knows what else, PLUS he just got a ukulele. While he isn’t designing stuff, he is playing in his band or making awesome YouTube videos of himself playing music. Here are a few for your viewing pleasure. If you’d like to find Andy, you can follow him on Twitter or check him out at his site AdditiveDesigns.com. Be sure to check out his kick ass typography!

Andy doing an original song called Continuum with his ukulele.

Click here if you can’t see the video!

Andy doing a cover of The Moldy Peaches song Steak for Chicken. So fucking cute I could just eat him up!

Click here if you can’t see the video!

TweetHug Launches Tomorrow!

01. February 2009 · Filed under: BlahBlahBlog · 2 Comments 

The time has come! TweetHug officially starts tomorrow at 11:11 AM EST. Make sure to follow @TweetHug on Twitter and check out the site at TweetHug.com.

I started TweetHug to spread love across Twitter. Don’t miss out!