I HOPE YOU LIKE MY NEW DIRECTION...

Don't worry, I'm not announcing "Jazz Odyssey!" First off, I want to thank everyone who reads my blog. Those of you who contribute in the "comments" section, thank you so much, I really appreciate it. I've been thinking about ways to make No Expiration a bit more useful, and how to incorporate twitter into what I do. So, here's what I'm going to be doing from now on. For breaking news stuff: I'm gonna tweet about it. Follow me here! The reasons I am doing this are kind of twofold.  One: I don't write on this blog during business hours, since I am at work. So I will be tweeting stories (with my commentary in 140 characters or less) throughout the day if I have time to do so. Today I tweeted about Neil Young's upcoming album (produced by Daniel Lanois!), Primus' upcoming tour, the Rush documentary that just won an award at the Tribeca Film Festival, how the floods in Nashville are affecting the Grand Ole Opry, and other stories on Jack White, Trent Reznor and more.

I'm going to use the blog more for my recommendations: records, new songs available on iTunes, cool magazines, DVDs, concerts, etc. And occasaional editorials. So, basically the news is on twitter - and these days, for better or worse, twitter kind of dictates the speed of news - and reviews and features are here. So, to paraphrase the great band, I hope you like my new direction.

PASTE IMAGINES TWITTER THROUGH MUSIC HISTORY

Paste is a cool music magazine, and unsurprisingly, is also in trouble like almost every magazine. They are trying to raise $300,000 to keep the magazine going, and lots of artists have donated tracks to them - so if you make a donation, you get a bunch of free downloads. Sadly, even if they raise that much money (that's a lot to fundraise) I wonder how long they can keep going.

They have a funny feature at thier website - they imagine what it would be like if Twitter existed throughout music history. I'm all for connections between artist and audience, but this makes a decent arguement for keeping a bit of mystery!