The way we Listen

Let me introduce you our fresh new author for this blog : vassily. He’s a big rock fan, and he will contribute to the writing of new posts, as much as I do. He’s the finest keyboard player, playing in rock cover band called OverSea across south of France. Feel free to visit the band’s brand new website.

I wish all the best to our new collaborator !

I’ve been absent for a long time, and I’m sorry! A turbulent period for me (finishing studies and entering the world of grown-ups…) ; it was also the time to stand back and think about this blog. I will be able to continue to feed it on a regular basis from now.

I also decided to write "News in brief" posts, which summarize the most important news in the world of rock, on a nearly daily basis. In the beginning, I had no ambition to make a news blog, and I decided to publish only specific information which had great significance for me. But in order to make this blog a daily venue for most of you, I decided to inform you about the latest happenings.

I will also follow my big stories such as "rock band logos, the story behind", which I will continue as soon as possible.

Musically yours !

What a surprise! I’m just back from holidays and I discover my blog totally messed up, with database errors all over the place… Another issue from my current webhost, which adds up with several offline cuts during entire days! This time it’s official, I’m migrating to another webhost!

Here I am now at OVH, where I can use a professional hosting titled “90 PLAN”, with a similar price. The solidity and reliability of OVH made me pick them… I’m now performing the transformation.

If you find any problem, please give me the word! Thank you.

Oh come on! You knew that was an April Fool’s prank…

Today is the well-known April Fool’s day, with its load of pranks and hoaxes all over the news and the web. I decided to take a closer look to April fool pranks in rock music… But the truth is : none of the official websites that I regularly check out posted anything today… I looked for rock pranks on Google but nothing… It seems that April Fool is not a tradition in rock music! What a great day though to announce a fake new album, a fake split up…

However I found three pranks launched by music webzines, very funny ones :

• Webzine Kerrang.com annnounced that Robbie Williams is in negociation into becoming the new lead singer of Velvet Revolver ! I like that one
• The same website announced that american band Fall Out Boy have split up!
• Webzine TheRock in New Zealand announced a free concert in Auckland by the Foo Fighters

Referring to Kerrang.com prank, I decided to see what would happen if Robbie Williams joined Velvet Revolver : 

What do you think ? Happy April Fool’s Day!

Today, the french company Netvibes launched its new (beta) version of “web 2.0″ service. Since then Netvibes has enabled users to create their own personal homepage, where widgets can be added : RSS feeds, search boxes, calendars, weather, clock, notepads … Very similar to the Apple Mac Dashboard, or to iGoogle. Here is the second version, titled “Ginger”, where homepage are not only personal but also public!

A public homepage is called a universe, where its owner can display anything he wants, with the same wonderful tools than its private page.

We decided to give it a try and create our “The Way We Listen” universe!

We tried to gather all sources of information we use to provide you with the best news. Have a look at them…

Today, on this Super Tuesday, everybody here in France talks about the US primary elections, and about USA in general. This situation gave me a simple idea… I started to look for rock songs which contains the word “USA”, or any US city/state in their title.

So here is my list so far :

• Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
• Surfin’ U.S.A. - The Beach Boys
• Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• California Dreamin’ - The Mamas and the papas
• New York - U2
• Miami - U2
• Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Viva Las Vegas - Elvis Presley/ZZ Top
• Hotel California - The Eagles
• Englishman in New York - Sting

I’m quite sure I’m missing a lot… Feel free to complete this list

We’ve been talking too much on this blog ! : ) Now it is your turn to say a few words?

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