The Car of Tomorrow is Here Today. Almost.

Another cautionary blog from radio consultant Fred Jacobs about what's coming down the road (literally!) for in-car radio listening.

First, Ford and Spotify announced a partnership that once again broadens the consumer’s ability to entertain herself musically.  Using the same AppLink technology that we’re working on with Ford at our jacAPPS division, this is Spotify’s first entry into the in-car integrated world.  And because of Spotify’s popularity with younger demographics, this has to be another example of Ford successfully and aggressively courting Millennials.  And AppLink is available in new Fords representing a wide variety of models – including the Fusion, Fiesta, Mustang and many others.

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This Michael Jackson Death Suit Gets Weird

I'll just quote The Hollywood Reporter:

The [email] exchange between AEG Live co-CEO Paul Gongaware and Jackson’s “This Is It” show director Kenny Ortega suggests that Dr. Conrad Murray might have been pressured into forcing an exhausted Jackson into performing over fear of losing his $150,000-a-month job as Jackson’s personal physician, according to CNN. Jackson died June 25, 2009, just two weeks before the scheduled start of his 50-date comeback concerts at the AEG-owned O2 Arena in London.

Addressing concerns that Jackson had missed rehearsal, Gongaware’s email read: “We want to remind [Murray] that it is AEG, not MJ, who is paying his salary. We want to remind him what is expected of him.” Jackson lawyers are arguing that the email is evidence of AEG’s involvement in the singer’s sudden death.

Read the whole story here.

Hollerado Throws a Party to Make Some Artwork for Their New Album

The video pretty much sums it up.  (Via NewCanadianMusic.ca)

Donate Your Old iPod for Music Therapy

March is Music Therapy Awareness Month.  Music Heals, a BC-based music therapy organization, is once again collecting iPods for the Music Heals iPod Pharmacy.

Good-as-new players will be given to music therapists for use with patients in hospitals and nursing homes as well as for palliative care and rehabilitation programs.

If you have an iPod to donate, send it to 

iPod Pharmacy

c/o Music Heals

Suite 400-1788 West 5th Avenue

Vancouver, BC

V6J 1P2

I Like This: Teenage Kicks

I've been following these Toronto guys for a couple of years.  Watch for them at CMW.