Well, I think it’s best if we put this blog on hiatus, so we can focus on producing music, rather than commenting on the industry of selling music to audiences.  We’ll be back hopefully soon, with a renewed focus!

DeRamos Media (the entity that runs this blog) has started another blog called FoodBoozeTunes.  It is partly about tunes (and other pop culture), but it is mostly about food and booze.  You can also check ‘em out on Twitter:  @FoodBoozeTunes.
I’m hungry and thirsty just thinking about it.

No, but congratulations to the next Autotune- and Photoshop-polished pop star.   Move ‘em units for the record company!

“It’s not the size of the pencil, it’s how big you write your name,” once said the music legend, who died Sunday, at the age of 67.  Ronnie James Dio was the vocalist for several groups, such as:
Ronnie & The Red Caps

Ronnie Dio & The Prophets

Elf

Rainbow

Black Sabbath

Dio

Heaven and Hell (Dio-era Black Sabbath Reunion from 2006-2010)

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RIP: Lena Horne, 1917-2010.
SP: Billy Corgan has hired Nicole Fiorentino to be the latest Smashing Pumpkins bass player.  There seems to be a demographic pattern for many of Corgan’s replacement bandmates, but hopefully that is just a minor issue when it comes to their latest studio (and live) output.  Besides, new SP drummer Mike Byrne [...]

One of the common themes of this blog is the overall staleness of the current mainstream popular music market (Music/Recording Industry 1.0, as I usually call it).  For my fellow music-makers, here are a couple of quick tips:
1. Look to history for some inspiration. There’s a wealth of public domain sheet music to incorporate into [...]

If you didn’t know this already, you do now:  AmazonMP3 puts an album at deep discount every day.  It’s usually at the top-ish left corner of the page, linked above.  When these deals started, the discounts and album selections were amazing!  It was great to purchase a classic album of any genre for $0.99 or [...]

This is just a quick rant for this week.  I’ve been thinking about what exactly is a band versus a solo project “doing business as” a pseudonymous band-like name.  I am agreeing more and more with the opinion that the more “glamorous” parts of making music (singing, instrument heroics [like lead guitar], songwriting, being the [...]

If you haven’t already, definitely check out the latest Seven Minute Silence album Light Will Come Next (iTunes | AmazonMP3).  It is a fantastic album, and it deserves a longer write-up on this blog.  In a nutshell, the album rocks out for a handful of tracks, mellows out with an acoustic number, rocks out again [...]