Off The Shelves: Music

Fri, 09 May 2003 17:04:18 GMT

A Rising Rock Star!

La Grange Park native and library user Kyle Andrews has 3 of his songs available on MP3.com: "Inspirational Action Figures"; "talk to me" ; and "defective" .

Hopefully this is the beginning of a long music career for Kyle.

There is a free registration required to listen to the songs.

Tue, 25 Feb 2003 01:08:12 GMT

The Grammy Award Winners

The Library owns many of the Grammy Award winning albums (CDs?) including Norah Jones, Bruce Springsteen, No Doubt, Tony Bennett, Sheryl Crow, Coldplay, Dixie Chicks, and Willie Nelson. Stop in and pick up one.

Tue, 07 Jan 2003 15:23:54 GMT

Grammy Award Nominations

You can find the full list of all the nominees for this year's awards in this Chicago Tribune article:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/sns-grammys-list,1,3856394.story?coll=chi%2Dhomepage%2Dfea

Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:57:53 GMT

Anyone Get a CD for Christmas?

"If you did you might want to check the box. Apparently a company called Bandlink is selling a technology to CD manufacturers which causes CDs to 'phone-home' when played in a personal computer. Unfortunately the story on Slashdot.org isn't specific about which manufacturers are doing this. Even worse is the fact that, other than a small logo on the CD cover, there is no notification to the consumer. I have heard of click-thru agreements allowing this kind of thing, but no notification at all? This just screams 'Class-Action' suit." [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]

I wonder what the company will make of one of these CDs being circulated by a library and the resulting "phone-homes?"

[The Shifted Librarian]

Sat, 14 Sep 2002 16:23:44 GMT

Here's a site that reviews children's music:

Best Children's Music. I don't usually recommend commercial sites, but this one seems to be doing a good job at its goal of "provid[ing] well-researched, parent-approved, teacher-endorsed and kid-tested music recommendations . . . recommend[ing] children's music recordings which are not only appropriate and meaningful, but outstanding in the field." [Marylaine Block's Neat New Sites]