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• DrumSTRONG 2008: A Smashing Success -- Thank You Scott and Mason!

  Three years ago, a friend of my family's teenage son was diagnosed with cancer, and was given fairly bleak chances of making it through the ordeal. It was a crushing blow to the family. For the full story, read the ESPN piece on Mason (he's the last story). Mason would go on to conquer the cancer inside his body, and has been cancer free for a couple of years now. Against all odds. And it was during this time that he reached out to one of my idols, Lance Armstrong...the 2 had a bit of dialogue... Posted May 06 2008, 07:10 PM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: General, Links and News, Photos, Charlotte, Music, Being Jayson

• A Couple Of New Music Recommendations: Mew, Muse, and Cold War Kids

  In my never ending quest to find new (indie rock) music, I've stumbled across a couple more troupes that I really dig, all of them via The Dive which comes on Fuse.tv at the most ungodly hour imaginable (usually around 3am Sunday mornings). By no means are any of them new...they've been making music for years, but only recently have they made it onto my daily playlists. They are: Cold War Kids : Good edgy sounds, slightly dancey and energetic. ' Hang me out to dry ' is the hit single... Posted Aug 14 2007, 09:44 PM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: General, Links and News, Music, Being Jayson

• For All The Massive Attack Fans Out There

  I'm sure there has to be a couple of Massive Attack fans who visit this site, and if you're not (or have never heard of them) it's never too late to give them a shot. They helped pioneer the trip hop movement which set the stage for many later bands to follow ( Portishead comes to mind, among many others). It's nice and dark, soothing, dubby , and just an all around bad ass style of music. A 5 hour mixed set of nonstop Massive Attack tunes has been making the playlist rounds over... Posted Jul 01 2007, 03:51 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: General, Links and News, Music

• Digweed, The Cinematics, Seattle, Horses...It's Springtime!

  The weather is getting warmer, which can only mean one (of several) things: Lots of stuff to do in and around Charlotte! This coming Thursday (the 22nd) The Cinematics are playing at a local venue (they are kick arse...anyone in the area should definitely check them out, it's at Neighborhood Theatre over in NODA). In even better news, John Digweed is making a long overdue stop here in Cha-town over at The Forum on the 29th. I haven't been out to see any type of spinning talent since Zabiela stopped... Posted Mar 19 2007, 11:30 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: General, Charlotte, Music, Being Jayson

• Save Internet Radio

  Streaming internet radio is in trouble . The basic premise is as follows: On Friday March 2nd, the U.S. government (specifically, the Copyright Royalty Board, or "CRB") announced its determination of the royalty rates Internet radio webcasters must pay the owners of sound recording copyrights to license the music they play for the years 2006-2010. The owners of these sound recording copyrights are, in the vast majority of cases, recording companies ("labels"). While successful webcasters which have... Posted Mar 16 2007, 12:06 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: General, Irks, Music

• Recent Band Discovery -- The Cinematics

  It's hard to sift through the crapola that is the music industry as of late...95% of the stuff that's out now is pure junk IMO. And who has time to go to the music store these days? Sometimes I wish I was a DJ so I could get paid to listen to music. Regardless, I've been trying to branch out some lately; TLC and I recently discovered a late night show on Fuse TV that caters more to indie rock and whatnot...The Dive. It comes on reeeeaaaallly late though. Speaking of which... It's unreal how hard... Posted Feb 12 2007, 01:15 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Opinions, Links and News, Charlotte, Music

• Obligatory Grammy Post -- Chili Peppers!

  I don't care about award season. I care even less about the Grammys, eschewing Maynard Keenan's opinion of the ceremony: How about the Grammy? You received one, but didn't attend the ceremony.... MAYNARD : I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself. That's basically what it's all about... Posted Feb 11 2007, 11:43 PM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Opinions, Music, Being Jayson

• Digitally Imported Radio -- Techno Channel

  Digitally Imported Radio (my favorite streaming music choice for years now) recently added a new channel to their repertoire: Techno . AAC stream , 96k stream , and 32k WMP stream locations. Not for the faint of heart, but it's great stuff to code to. Casual electronica listeners might be thinking to themselves "isn't all electronica also called techno?" Yeah, kinda...but techno in itself is also a sub-genre of electronica, and it's hard to describe so just have a listen first...you'll either love... Posted Dec 06 2006, 11:47 PM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Links and News, Music

• Amazing Music Video: Sia-Breathe Me

  I saw this float by on Digg the other day: Astralwerks describes it as "an amazing clip created with 2,500 Polaroids, proverbially making this video worth 2,500,000 words." Real: Hi / Lo Windows Media: Hi / Lo Very well done, not to mention it’s a pretty badass track to boot. At the going price of a 10 pack of Polaroid film, they could’ve easily spent upwards of $4,000 on film alone (though I’m assuming they got a discount either for A) buying in bulk or B) exposure for Polaroid... Posted Apr 16 2006, 04:40 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Music

• Music To Code By Vols 4-5 Released

  DJ Boliva has been kind enough to release volumes 4 and 5 of his “music to code by” series: Partisan Scream Fest and Hunt the Wumpus (great titles…lovin’ it!). The previous 3 releases were fantastic, as are these. Track 7 on Partisan Scream Fest (~40:00) is absolutely slammin’. Thanks Bolivia, and here’s hoping for an equally impressive volume 6 (which unfortunately will be the final installment). Share this post: | | | | | Posted Mar 16 2006, 10:26 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Music