Yesterday was a good day.
I turned on my car and found Sirius 9, The Pulse was now Sirius XM The Pulse. That was one of the many channel combinations, additions and moves.
Hearing Sirius XM meant that the new programming had finally gone into place!! I checked my XM at home and found that Flight 26 [...]

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With iPods pretty much everywhere you turn, CD sales are plummeting lower and lower. There used to be a day when people would pride themselves in the size of their CD collection. Back in the day, vinyls were king, but I think the CD jewel cases had more of a presence. Now we all have [...]

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What do I do now? I LOVE Flight 26. It’s my favorite XM Radio Station, and has been what I listen to all day at work, using AOL Radio.
It seems like the deal between XM and AOL is over. Now my wife and I will fight over who connects to the Sling Box and listens [...]

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This made me laugh. It’s very creative, incredibly time consuming to prep for (I imagine), and ingenious at the same time.
Tetris theme played by blowing into bottles of different sizes and with different levels of water to produce different notes
Mario theme played by a remote control car carrying a wand and tapping bottles filled to [...]

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Valentina Hasan sings from the heart. She explained that she memorized the song by listening to a tape over and over again and learning the song with her heart, the way she felt it.
Given the great popularity (over 8 million views on YouTube and countless remixes, techno/house versions and remakes, to name a few) Hasan [...]

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What? Did I hear correctly?   This is music to my ears! (no pun intended)
More than 12 months have gone by since this deal was first announced, and finally the news just broke of the DOJ approving the merger. While FCC approval is still pending, I think this is enough to get excited!
The merger stalled [...]

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This is hilarious rendition of Mariah Carrey’s ‘Without You’ by a contestant in Bugaria’s version of American Idol.
Clearly the woman does not speak English, but I give her credit, not only for going in front of the TV audience and judges to sing, but also for doing a pretty good job of recreating the song [...]

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Here’s on the of the best, or at least the cutest, rendition I’ve seen of The Beatles’ Hey Jude!

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I laugh thinking what NASA scitentists might think, and the reaction this may cause, if they suddenly picked up a transmission like this on some obscure distant frequency - all joking aside, this technology is quite amazing.
Reactable is “a collaborative electronic music[al] instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface”, in other words its an interactive [...]

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