By Charles Kiyanda, on July 27th, 2008%
This one comes straight from my own town. Geneviève et Matthieu are a duo singing eclectic music. I’ve never been an incredibly great fan, a little too crazy for my taste. It appears that, lately, they’ve been exploring music which is more, well, actually music.
This group satisfies the criteria for this challenge since they give music . . . → Read More: Six months music challenge, part 7 : Geneviève et Matthieu
By Charles Kiyanda, on July 23rd, 2008%
The bastard fairies is an eclectic type of stuff, yet interesting. This particular scheme is to give away a good part of the album (in this case, 12 of 17 songs) and sell the full album for a price (in this case in physical form). I actually downloaded the free 12 songs a while back (before . . . → Read More: Six months challenge part 6: The bastard fairies
By Charles Kiyanda, on July 23rd, 2008%
I struggled for the last two days about including Jon Lajoie in this series. This artist is a comedian and while he makes music and distributes it for free, it’s all parody. (And there seems to be a whole lot of his work which isn’t music.) Still, I wondered whether I would include stuff by Weird . . . → Read More: Six months challenge part 5: Jon Lajoie
By Charles Kiyanda, on July 15th, 2008%
Ok, I know, I’m really late, so let me try to get a couple entries in two days here and catch up for the time lost. (You’ll have to forgive me for the delay, I was busy with my Ph.D. preliminary examination.) For the week that ended on July 4th, let me submit to you Jane . . . → Read More: Six months challenge, part 4: Jane Siberry / Issa
By Charles Kiyanda, on July 2nd, 2008%
I’m 4 days late, sorry, I’ve been preparing my preliminary exam and haven’t had much time to update. This week’s (well last week’s) artist is Jonathan Coulton. I’ve actually known about Jonathan Coulton for quite a while, so this is a little bit of cheating, but I was keeping his site and music for a rainy . . . → Read More: 6 month challenge, part 3: Jonathan Coulton