Archive for the 'Music' Category

Afghan Music Project gets some press

Friday, June 9th, 2006

It looks like somebody at MSNBC finally listened to me. The AMP guys got some real press and here it is on YouTube…

previous posts… [1][2]
[The Afghan Music Project]
[YouTube - AMP on MSNBC]

Afghani music climbing the charts

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Update on my previous post on the Afghan Music Project:
As of May 1st, 2006, the Afghan Music Project CD has climbed to No. 12 on the iTunes World Music Chart. All credit is due to Chris Becherer and Adam Gouttierre, 2 Berkeley students who traveled to Kabul in the summer of 2005 to record and […]

The Afghan Music Project

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Chris Becherer, a friend of mine at Berkeley, spent last summer in Afghanistan with another Berkeley student producing a record of traditional Afhgan music. If that doesn’t sound fascinating to you, spend just a few minutes on their blog.

They spent 10 days on the ground in Kabul, gathering famed Afghan musicians - long silenced […]

Jay Mohr on Neil Diamond

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Jay Mohr - you might better know him as Bob Sugar, Jerry Maguire’s nemesis and one-time protege - goes on a diatribe about the winter olympics. While I don’t think he’s particularly funny and usually find his SI.com articles to be pretty worthless, this one, which could have been much better if he had spent […]