cool book: appetite for self-destruction

I have been reading Appetite for Self-Destruction – the Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age and it’s both a well-written and fascinating tale of the rise and fall of the record industry over the past 30 years.

cool blog: bloggable music network

One of my favorite bloggers, Kat, just started a new music blog not too long ago: bloggable music network. She highlights not only her favorite music (and does so with much humor), but also music her readers submit. Oh, and did I mention she had excellent taste in music?

cool site: e-chords

If you play guitar, you may very well be familiar with this site – E-Chords. If not, you may not have a reason to…. since the site mainly deals with guitar chord charts. But, just in case you do play guitar and don’t know the site, it is definitely worth checking out. 12,000 charts with over 200,000 tabs including chords, tabs, bass, and drums. Most those are available for free – for $24.45/year you can become a member, get rid of annoying ads, and – much more importantly, transpose any song to any key you want. I love this site. It’s not always correct – the site is very-Web 2.0 in that it relies on chart submissions by lots of individuals – but at the very least it usually gives me a really good start on a great chart for a great song.