May 09, 2008
Neil Young Announces His "Newest" Realease
Neil Young. How privileged every generation is that has experienced him. I hate to write anything about him, because i have featured him innumerable times in selecting FamilyFirst sites over the many years that i have been doing this gig.... Read the story »
April 26, 2008
Grooveshark Lite
Yikes, a little late today. I had some computer issues I had to work through. Anyhow, without further ado, may I present today' FamilyFirst pick: Grooveshark Lite. It's a slick Flash-based interface that will let you search online for songs... Read the story »
April 19, 2008
Bruce Springsteen(.net)
It is with sadness that I heard today of the untimely death of Danny Federici from a three-year battle with melanoma. Federici was the solid keyboard anchor to the E Street Band, going back to the day when they invited... Read the story »
April 17, 2008
The Top 100 Seventies Singles
Disco music aside, the 70's was a pretty terrific era for tunes. Sure, the Top 40 at any given time had its share of dreck, but there were also a lot of quality offerings there, at least early in the... Read the story »
April 16, 2008
MP3 or Not?
I've heard a lot of complaining about the "desecration" of music by packaging it into mp3's. Now, I'm an open-minded guy. So I've dug deeper. The detractors of mp3-encoded music say that the compressed data takes away a lot of... Read the story »
April 01, 2008
Rain Links
Today's FamilyFirst site will make you go hoo-yah! Then, somewhere along the line, they will probably get shut down. That's because you get to watch full-length movies online! FREE! No doubt, the MPAA is having a conniption fit. But for... Read the story »
February 13, 2008
Pandora Radio
With the draconian tactics and control of the desperate, dying RIAA, the music you can listen to on the internet is quite limited. But yes, there are legal ways around it. For instance, there is internet radio. Make no mistake,... Read the story »
February 04, 2008
The Annotated American Pie
At presstime, it was 49 years ago today that a Beechcraft Bonnaza crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa, taking the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper. In 1971, a soulful artists named Don McClean wrote a song... Read the story »
December 10, 2007
Filter Music
There are still a lot of internet radio stations that the RIAA gestapo have not shut down. But how do you select and choose among them? Well, you just might give today's FamilyFirst site a try. It's called FilterMusic. What... Read the story »
December 05, 2007
Lyrics Directory
If you're into lyrics, today's FamilyFirst site is for you. It's called Lyrics Directory, and it's loaded with the lyrics to thousands of songas. It's searchable, of course, and also alphabetically browseable. How many times have you been listening to... Read the story »
October 10, 2007
Musicovery
Today's FamilyFirst site put a big smile on my face. Many clueless web designers out there insist on using Microsoft technologies in their sites. And Microsoft, of course, is reluctant to have their technologies work in any environment other than... Read the story »
October 08, 2007
Music Organization Sues Firm for Employees Listening to Their Radios
Well, the US of A isn't the only nation in the world with tyrannical parasitic entities suing people over how they listen to music. Today's FamilyFirst pick is a BBC article about a lawsuit filed by the PRS (Performing Rights... Read the story »
September 27, 2007
AnywhereCD
The RIAA has managed to “shut down” allofmp3.com (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more!). I won't state the obvious in what fans of Russian-marketed music can do, but what I WILL do today is offer an alternative to walking... Read the story »
September 26, 2007
Songbird
Man, I can't wait until the RIAA and its pack of lawyers are gone. It shouldn't take much longer. Right now, they are like the horse lobbyists screaming the wrongness of the automobile circa 1910. Today's FamilyFirst pick lets you... Read the story »
August 21, 2007
Recording Industry vs. the People
What do you call a lawyer that . . . There's nothing funnier than a lawyer joke. When you mention the word lawyer, you envision a blood sucking TV-advertising ambulance-chasing underhanded slimeball. However, even though a disturbing number of lawyers... Read the story »


