Burgo's Music Blog – It's a wonderful life, this life of music
It's a wonderful life, this life of music
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If you haven’t heard/tried Chatroulette yet, you wouldn’t be reading this blog. So I won’t explain it.
But by far, the coolest, coolest thing I have seen to come out of the chat site is this: A dude playing piano and improvising tunes to his chat partners. Sheer joy.
And yes, I know that I’m a few [...]
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Just when I thought “Lisztomania” was getting to the “overplayed to the point of banality” stage, this comes along and changes all of that. So, is it wrong that I think this version not only builds on the original, but could even improve on it? Whatever. If it is, I don’t want to be right.
Quite [...]
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Sooo… here’s the new design. What do you guys think? Any suggestions/criticisms/yo momma jokes welcome.
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So, recently I’ve been thinking about changing up the look of things here at Burgo’s Music Blog. I’m a bit hesitant to do so for a few reasons though:
- One is, quite simply, the old adage of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. The blog has had this current theme for probably around a [...]
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… I know, I know, it’s been a while since I posted here with any regularity, and for that, I apologise. To be honest, I’m not 100% sure why that is. Part of it, I know, is that work has been ridiculously busy the last few months, and as such my mind hasn’t really been [...]
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To everyone who has emailed me in the last week to tell me about your band/client/new release/gig, sorry for the lack of replies. I’ve been away the last few days at the 2009 SMX Conference in Sydney, and haven’t had a chance to check personal emails. It will be a few days before I get [...]
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Regretably, this will be a quick post today, as it never rains, but it pours, you know? Anyway, hat-tip to Richard at Makakmedia for bringing this to my attention: today, January 12, marks the beginning of a year long celebration of the 50th anniversary of global music icon: MOTOWN.
Read more about the event here… but [...]
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One of the most effortlessly cool bands I know, Motel Motel (originally featured on this blog here, and also a band that made it onto my “Best of 2008” post) have released a Youtube video wishing you all a happy holiday. And, true to form… it’s pretty damn cool.
I’ll hopefully have a chance to post [...]
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So today I was surfing the ‘Tube, and I decided to relive the joy that is “The Damnwells” by surfing some of their videos. First, I watched this video, uploaded way back in 2006, promoting the album “Air Stereo”.
… and I was filled with this sense of wonder. I mean, no matter how many times [...]
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… and Burgo’s Blog is no different. Yes, I’m putting together a “Best of 2008″ post, which is why things are a bit quiet around here. I promise, an update is coming soon.
(Oh yes, and as an aside… remember how in this post about William Fitzsimmons I said that I was sure I had posted [...]
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While this happened a few days ago, it’s only just been brought to my attention.
13 years on from his disappearance, Richey Edwards of Manic Street Preachers has been declared dead. While it’s really just a legal status at this point, I’m still finding this incredibly depressing. Part of me has always lived in the hope [...]
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Honestly, right now I feel like a traitor to myself. Within a day of each other (from tomorrow) both tickets for Coldplay and Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Brisbane shows go on sale. Coldplay tickets are between $110-$140 (!!?) and Ryan Adams & The Cardinals tickets are $75 (which is up about another $20 from [...]
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Ian Rogers recently gave the Keynote address at the GRAMMY Northwest MusicTech Summit… and what a Keynote address it was. Ian basically said what we music bloggers have been saying for a long time: online music does not signal the end of the music industry… rather, it signals the end of the CD industry. And [...]
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Well, that was relatively painless. After a few false starts – which resulted in Burgo’s Music Blog being down for the entire weekend – the site is now up and running nicely on my new hosting setup.
Thanks for your patience while we had some problems there. New posts will be coming soon, I promise!
If you [...]
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Just a quick note to all my readers… starting tomorrow, I will be initiating a move from my current host for Burgo’s Blog to another, new host. Unfortunately, this is something I’m doing myself, as there’s no real tech support at my new hosting. As such (god help me)… I’m expecting this to take a [...]
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Short note… but Cardinals fans can now stream the entire “Cardinology” album here. All in all, I’m actually loving it, although some reviews haven’t been as positive.
Give it a listen and make up your own mind.
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Burgo – Mele Cascade, Vanuatu
… and it was great. Although we were extremely unlucky with weather (ie. it rained every. single. day. except for one day, which was overcast), it was still a wonderful holiday filled with wonderful people. I’ll have an update with more details over on my personal blog at Matt-Burgess.com sometime within [...]
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Iririki Island. Posting will be, well… non-existent over the next week and a half, as I go to spend some quality time in Vanuatu on Iririki island. Be good all.
(Photo by Owen-JP)
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Wow. So, something was just pointed out to me. It was officially one year ago today, that “Burgo’s Blog” was born. Not on this domain, of course… it’s only had it’s own domain for just over half a year, by now. But, before that, it started it’s life hosted on Wordpress.com as a free subdomain.
It’s [...]
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Aah… why not? I’ve already turned this blog into a charity plea by this post earlier today, highlighting the Love Light & Melody Organisation. So, I thought… why the hell not? Let’s make today a humanitarian day here on Burgo’s Blog, and highlight some other causes that I try to support in my own little [...]
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This is just a short note to let you all know that there’s a new Tallest Man On Earth song out – see my last post on this dude here – titled “A Field of Birds”… and it’s a killer tune.
The song’s been released as a theme song for the site, Yellow Bird Project; a [...]
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Monkey Swallows The Universe
This will be a micro-blog today, but I just wanted to drop a quick line regarding a band that was just recently brought to my attention (full props for that go to the Makak Man – that’s his stumbleupon page… thanks mate), Monkey Swallows The Universe.
Monkey Swallows The Universe (henceforth known on [...]
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