For the Love of Music

This is the first chance I've had to blog this week, as you can imagine. As we've been saying during our newscasts and special reports, our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who lost a family member, friend or other loved one in the terrible tragedy Monday at Virginia Tech. So much attention this week has been focused on the gunman, Cho Seung Hui. And yes, investigators need to sort through many disturbing pieces of that puzzle, as well as determine how well the response was in the hours that followed the first shooting spree. However, it's the victims that we need to remember most. We've tried our best to show respect to them and their families as we tell their stories. Each time a new name is released, and we see pictures of that person alive and happy and vibrant, it just breaks my heart.

CNET TV Reviews Best Free Music Downloads

LOS ANGELES, CA Tuesday Apr.17.2007 /netmusiccountdown.com/ -- Download.com Music and CNET TV have teamed up to bring you some of the best free music downloads on the internet. This week's featured artists from the Download Crew include Dinosaur Jr and their new track, "Almost Ready," New York group Battles, and one of the hottest new urban acts, The MIMS.Check out free tunes by these artists and more at http://music.download.com.

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An open letter to Natasha Bedingfield

We at DiS have rarely been ones to get particularly riled by what passes for pop music in this day and age – after all, somebody somewhere okayed the release of the Mika album, so the disease has obviously reached a stage where no DiS-administered enema could possibly rid the charts of their most cancerous cells. We have reached a platform of tolerance, of tight-lipped grumbles rather than scream-out-loud protestation at the decay spreading before our ears week in, week out.

But with your new single, ‘I Wanna Have Your Babies', you have overstepped a mark. You have crossed a proverbial line in the equally proverbial sand that was never yours for trespassing beyond. You have offended us ‘til our maws foam with unprecedented rage. Our blood has curdled to a thickness that not even Blunt could whip up.

Here There Be Dragonette

I would imagine there are more than a few TND fans who think Dragonette is the Yoko Ono of The New Deal. The words are Dan Kurtzs, and while theyre laced with humour, the feeling is bittersweet.

Dan Kurtz is (or perhaps was, depending how you look at it) the driving, grooving bassist for the livetronica trio, The New Deal. But more recently, Kurtz is half of the electro-pop outfit, Dragonette, that is currently taking the UK by storm.

Despite the fact that Dragonette has not yet released their first album, the buzz surrounding the sexy pop-rockers can be felt across the Atlantic Ocean. Recently, Perez Hilton, Hollywoods gossip celebrity talked them up on his website, Ryan Stasik lauded them as the band to watch in 2007 and their video on YouTube was one of the most watched videos.

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G-Unit rapper Young Buck on Don Imus, country music and selling 2 ...

Young Buck's latest CD, "Buck the World," became the nation's No. 1 rap album when it hit stores March 27. It might have had a shot at No. 1 overall if it hadn't been for "country-ass Tim McGraw," he jokes. The rapper is used to playing second fiddle to country. He grew up in Nashville, slinging drugs and rapping as a teen before signing to 50 Cent's G-Unit Records. Young Buck's 2004 debut, "Straight Outta Ca$hville," has sold 2 million copies worldwide.Does Nashville have a ghetto?Every hood has a ghetto. Boise, Idaho, has a ghetto. I just happen to be one that comes from the ghetto of Nashville, Tenn. It's one of the hardest ghettos that you'll ever be able to walk foot in if you're able to make it through it.How did growing up in what is known as the home of country music affect a rapper?One day you could have a station that was supporting rap, turn to it the next day and you would hear Conway Twitty playing.