Ray Kurzweil, the brilliant inventor of the first synth to play orchestral instrument sounds, is also responsible for many other inventions from flat-bed scanners to print-to-speech readers for the blind to speech recognition technologies.  Plus he’s authored some new and compelling books about our future.  Check out this interview with this modern day Thomas Edison,…

Not all Christian music has to be boring…  Check out the post-contemporary Bored Again Christian Podcast for some impressive songwriting, sugar sweet melodies, and a very well-done indie podcast.  For a shortcut to some of the featured bands, our host Just Pete offers up his top ten bored again stocking stuffers.  JP is also responsible…

We just received word this week from cdbaby.com that the participating independent artists donated $165,060 and cdbaby kicked in $40,000 of their own, for a grand total $205,060.  Is that awesome or what?  Many of these artists are barely breaking even on their music, so this is pretty decent.  And let’s not forget the people…

Now why in the world they want to tear down this modern work of art is beyond me.  But that is exactly what they are going to do in a matter of weeks.  I never did hear a good reason why.  I’m sure it’s all about the money, the corporate dollars, the taxes the city…

For those of us in the midwest, the U of I Krannert Center has put together quite an impressive assembly of guitar greats and teachers.  Check out their schedule.  I’ve got tickets to see Bill Frisell.  So maybe I’ll see you there.  later…   

The car was packed and the whole family hopped in for our 12 hour drive to the far northwoods of Minnesota.  After we hit the road, we realized we forgot our iTrip FM transmitter, and in fact, we did not know where it was hiding in the house.  This means no music for 12 hours. …