http://www.hopegilmore.com Folk Music and Indie Rock Musician in New York City Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:07:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A little over a week ago a close friend of mine suggested I enter Oprah Winfrey's Karaoke contest. I thought about it a bit and figured if I was able to go onto the show and sing in front of thousands of people it could definitely help advance my singing ... http://www.hopegilmore.com/2009/10/oprah-winfrey-karaoke/ So Ok, not that they are desperate for the publicity, but I thought I'd give a shout out for my acquaintance Rachel, lead singer of The Vettes...I use the term "acquaintance" because we're definitely not besties or anything, but my brother introduced me to her a couple years back at ... http://www.hopegilmore.com/2009/09/the-vettes-pretty-much-rock-my-face-off/ I was one of the many people to attend All Points West this weekend. It was a 3 day event at Liberty State Park. Friday's line-up included Jay-Z, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend and others. Saturdays 3 biggest performers were Tool, My Bloody Valentine and Gogol Bordello. Chairlift was ... http://www.hopegilmore.com/2009/08/all-points-west-2009/ So I'm only like a year and a half out of the loop, but I'm just discovering Passion Pit for the first time tonight. They apparently formed in late 2007, but it took about a year for them to release their popular EP titled "Chunk of Change". I guess I'm ... http://www.hopegilmore.com/2009/07/electronic-tunes-on-the-brain/ Every once in a while I find myself on a dance floor trying to moonwalk; sadly I have not been able to master it. Michael Jackson wasn't in fact the first one to do the moonwalk. It was actually first recorded by a tap dancer named Bill Bailey in 1955, ... http://www.hopegilmore.com/2009/07/just-look-over-your-shoulder-honey-ooh/ I'm not exactly consistent with my exercising, but when I decide to  I love to do it with music...it's the only way to do it really. About 2 or 2 & 1/2 years ago I made a mix called "Kick Ace!" that I pretty much use every time I need ... http://www.hopegilmore.com/2009/06/lets-get-hype/ So not only is there a musical genre referred to as New Wave, but there is actually, in all honesty, one called New Wave of New Wave (which is also known as neo-New Wave).  It was apparently short lived, which kind of makes it seem like an old wave of ... http://www.hopegilmore.com/2009/06/new-wave-of-new-wave/ According to my new close friend Wikipedia, we'll call him Wiki, the correct definition for the genre Soundtrack is that it "refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music ... http://www.hopegilmore.com/2009/06/sweet-soundtracks/ So I know I said I'd be back "tomorrow", but I got a life here. Anyway, I finished counting the different types of music listed in Wikipedia. For N through Z: N=85, O=33, P=116, Q=7, R=76, S=130, T=61, U=8, V=14, W=16, X=3, Y=6, Z=12, so all together for types that ... http://www.hopegilmore.com/2009/06/now-thats-nardcore/ I was thinking the other day how interesting it is how people are constantly reinventing new genres of music. Sometimes people mix genres and make them a new one in order to appeal to a bigger audience or just because they love those genres so much they can't settle on ... http://www.hopegilmore.com/2009/06/genres-and-genres-oh-my/