Oh, NOW You Want me, Google Music Beta?!

Apparently I wasn’t cool enough to warrant inclusion at the outset of Google Music Beta but now they’ve decided I’m worthy.  I got an email last night inviting me to check it out and I’ve only just gone through the process (on a Windows machine) to set it up.  While the process was relatively painless (and they even include some free songs to test with, hooray!) I see now why it’s still in beta.

I’ve clicked two or three different songs and while they appear to be ‘playing’ I’m not hearing anything through my speakers.  I haven’t spent enough time with it yet to say whether or not I’m going to dig it, but I have a feeling that iCloud is going to be my favorite not because of a natural Apple bias, but because i can’t stream any of my Google music to my iPhone or any other iDevices and that’s just disappointing.  Competition with Apple or not, there are millions of iOS users out there and if Google could do the music thing better (see: free-er) than Apple then I’d think iOS would be a great platform to illustrate that.

Oh well, let’s see if Billion Dollar Babies will play now!

Perfect Summer Music

Summer is officially halfway over making it crucial that the rest of it is spent accordingly. Water, sunshine, driving, outdoors; whatever it is that you are doing, I am providing you with the perfect music to groove to. I know we may not have similar tastes, but if yours is immaculate like mine then you’ll approve. ;)

P.S. Because I love you, my dear readers, you can listen to any of these songs at the almighty Grooveshark. I made the playlist for you. Muah.

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Akira Yamaoka Reunited with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn for New Game

Unfortunately, it’s not for the new Silent Hill as Yamaoka is now signed on with Grasshopper Manufacture and has stepped away from mine and Nicole’s favorite video game franchise.  The Silent Hill 3 video below will let you hear some of McGlynn’s vocal stylings, but ‘You’re Not Here’ is one of my favorite video game songs of all-time- bar none.  We’ll be sure to put more updates here as we learn more about this new outing and Yamaoka’s continued musical endeavors.

Listen to Dark Side of the Moon in 8-Bit!

I ran across this the other day at Geeks of Doom and while it’s apparently only available in YouTube format (below), you can watch/listen to more if you go to Akanakao’s YouTube Channel.  It’s pretty trippy and I love 8-bit music, but I don’t think I could listen to it regularly lest it sully the memories of my youth…which, were really adaptations of memories of my father’s youth so, there that is.  Enjoy!