Brian Wright

"...one of, if not the best, living singer-songwriters in Los Angeles." - Brother Sal

Glory Hallelujah Video:


Listen to my current favorite from the album Blue Bird:
Over and Again - Brian Wright & The Waco Tragedies

Brian Wright & The Waco Tragedies' Facebook and MySpace page

Vinyl Section coming to Best Buy?

VINYL SECTION AT BIG BOX RETAILER?! Best Buy is considering devoting eight square feet of merchandising space to vinyl after testing the idea in 100 of its stores around the country, the N.Y. Post’s Peter Lauria reports. That’s enough space to accommodate just under 200 albums, which doesn’t seem like much until you consider that a typical Best Buy store devotes just 16 to 20 square feet to music. After increasing 15% in 2007, vinyl sales jumped 89% last year to 1.9 million albums, and this year is shaping up even better, with 670k albums sold by mid-April. While vinyl's growth obviously can't make up for the CD’s decline, it does show consumers haven't abandoned the physical format. And the fact that a retailer of Best Buy's size is willing to expand vinyl offerings is an incremental positive for a beleaguered industry.

Singer-Songwriters cover the 80's

Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Greg Laswel
(Cyndi Lauper)

Only You - Josh Radin
(Yaz)

If You Were Here - Cary Brothers
(Thompson Twins)

When Doves Cry - Damien Rice
(Prince)

Kid Cudi

The first new rap artist i've been excited about in quite sometime. The Cleveland born rapper with a sing-song flow got a major boost at South by Southwest, where he showed up higher-billed acts like Chromeo and Kid Sister.

Video for his first single Day 'n' Nite:



Listen to his track Dat New "New" -- my current favorite
Dat New New - Kid Cudi

Kid Cudi's official Website and MySpace page
Day 'n' Nite (Crookers Remix)

Blip

Playing For Change

From the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", comes the first of many "songs around the world" being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.

Stand By Me:



The Project: www.playingforchange.com


Playing For Change Intorduction/One Love

Watch Coachella LIVE on your computer

From the Coachella Music Festival, Springboard is producing the webcast through the weekend. Right there, live on your desktop. Click the link below to watch Coachella live:

http://music.att.net/
For you techies, there is one other reason to check this webcast out.
It is being delivered with Adaptive Streaming. The streaming video is MUCH better. You know how on most streams Full Screen usually sucks. Not with this, Full Screen looks great.

When you go to the site, you will just add a little applet that takes about
10 seconds. Then the stream automatically diagnoses your download speed, and the speed of your computer's processor and gives you the best picture you can handle.

Tune in for the live webcasts featuring performances from The Killers, M.I.A, White Lies, Paul McCartney, Morrissey, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Glasvegas, The Cure, Peter Bjorn and John, Public Enemy, Okkervil River and many others.

GRAMMY Celebration Concert Tour

See photos from the tour at
jasonz.com photo gallery





Los Angeles - Thursday April 9, 2009:
Hollywood Palladium
6215 Sunset Blvd.
Hollywood, CA.






jason | jaime | leona lewis | suzy | branden





San Francisco - Tuesday April 14, 2009:
The Warfield
982 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102







Chad Hugo (N.E.R.D.) | Suzy | Shay (N.E.R.D.) | Jaime | Pharrell Williams (N.E.R.D.) | Jason








Boston - Monday May 4, 2009:
House Of Blues
15 Lansdowne Street
Boston, MA 02215





branden | me | suzy | Lady GaGa | jaime | dancers





Miami - Thursday May 7, 2009:
The Fillmore Miami Beach
at the Jackie Gleason Theater
1700 Washington Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33139





branden | jaime | Wyclef | Suzy | Beverly | me





New York - Thursday May 28, 2009:
Terminal 5
610 West 56
New York, NY 10019

Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It

I'm crazy for Raphael Saadiq's latest record, The Way I See It. A beautifully crafted throwback to 50/60's R&B/Motown.

My current favorite track is "Big Easy"



Here are some videos from the album:

Let's Take A Walk



100 Yard Dash

Raphael on YouTube | Raphael on MySpace

Love That Girl

Raphael Saadiq @ mtvmusic.com

Big Easy (live)