Madison and Pine

Stream of concious-music-experience

One of the things I have come to absolutely love about Zune is the subscription service... to be honest I never thought it would be something I'd be into, I mean I have thousands of Lps and CDs and keep buying more.. but the ability to have this massive library of music available to your every whim is awesome, and I love it.. I've just spent the last hour or two running through the Lowlife Catalog after taking a look at a UK HipHop playlist on marketplace, because I like Dynamite MC and minutes later I had 5 great albums to listen two, including one that's a couple of years old now but stands up sooooo well the Skinnyman album - Council Estate of Mind

Pic: Skinnyman- he phat

anyway for no good reason I started thinking about the string arrangement on the Harry Nilsson version of "All I Think About Is You" so I find myself in Nilssons anthology and then I'm listening to "Perfect Day" and thinking to myself "this is awesome and I'm so lucky to be involved in this" and then I thought about someone who was talking about Africa Bambaataa the other day and went and grabbed the second Leftfield Album and noticed that there's a wicked Clash playlist on marketplace right now and then I saw some stuff from The Presets...and this is all for the price of a CD? or a movie ticket or dinner for two at the Golden Arches... I mean really ...this is awesome.. and I think I'd better switch this off or I'll never go to bed!!  g'night

l8t

r

Party like a rat packer

Well for a few minutes at the Zune party at Tao in Vegas I felt like the ass&^* door guy at Studio 54... somehow word spread hugely about the party and we ended up with about 700 people in line for a party that would fit 300, anyway somehow we ended up with most people in and a wicked party

pic: Zune Party-Raymond from Urb

Pic: Zune CES Party-for some people life is good!

Pic: Zune party-yours truly and DJ Mike Traylor

More pics at TheCobraSnake.com  more on our plans for SXSW and various other nonsense coming soon

l8t

r

Vegas smaygus...

How unusual.. I find myself in an airport waiting for a delayed Alaska flight... tell me it is not so, and that this is indeed a dream, after all their reliability and timeliness is legendary.. along with the valiant efforts of the battle hardened Swiss Army and the health benefits of a week in Vegas..

so here I sit.. last night however the Zune crew threw the party of CES at Opium Den at Toa... it was an absolute zoo, and raged to the talents of Questlove & MC until the wee hours even by Vegas standards.. anyway everyone was dancing... and I mean everyone even me! Pictorial evidence should be on TheCobraSnake.Com later today

Anyway, that said if you're in NYC weekend you should go hang out with DB here

pic: get blinded with Science

ok plane is delayed more...wohoo Stabucks time

l8t

r

Rico Sauve... perhaps not!

Ahahaha  so I finally get to see my latest bio picture .. not here of course I think the PR folk have been hiding it from me (bless em) anyway I'm front and center in Digital Media Wire and of course I had to share...The article focuses on "music" which is of course central to everything Zune is about and also make mention of the Artist Development Program tours which ran through the end of last year and will be starting up again shortly with some wicked new artists.

I'm also working hard on our plans for SXSW this year with our lifestyle marketing people I'll reveal as I can, but obviously we'll be doing stuff with our content partners over the course of the year if that good enough indication of direction.

so here's my official ugly mug

BBC top 10 to watch

Thought you'd be interested in this (thanks to my mate Melissa). I'm already all over Klaxons and AirTraffic of course if you had a Zune Pass you could be too!!... yes predicition for 2007 people start "getting" subscription as a great way to enjoy loads o music... anyway.. soapbox away.. and over to the BBC

Sound of 2007 – BBC’s top 10 names to watch

Mika   

The Twang

Klaxons

Sadie Ama

Enter Shikari

Air Traffic

Cold War Kids

Just Jack

Ghosts

The Rumble Strips

Details of each here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6169551.stm#1

Las Vegas or Bust

Ahh yes... just as you're replacing the first set of batteries in your christmas gizmo's the future is about to be revealed in Las Vegas ... oh the joy that abounds in the city of lights for the biggest trade show of the year being CES. I'm popping in for Tuesday to do a couple of meetings, get a look at the fancy new gizmology and to attend what is sure to be one of "the" events of the convention

Zune Afterparty - 1/9/07

Venue The Opium Room at Tao

DJ Questlove spinning Midnight to 3pm

Photographer Mark the Cobrasnake

Attendees: Mix of CES types and local nightlife crowd

Partners: 944 magazine

If you're in town reach out, it would of course be fabulous to se y'all.. I'm hoping to find a camera phone that works....

Happy New Year

Hey there all, just a quickie to say Happy New Year and have a fab 2007 to y'all. It was a wicked 2006 for me and all the Zune folk and be prepared for some awesome stuff this year. It's hard to think that Zune has only been on the market a little more than 6 weeks and however you view the press the impact has been undeniable... so 2007 is looking pretty darn good, lots to do but hey that's what makes it fun!

l8t

r

on the raz in LA

Ahhh... as much as I've come to realize I really don't like LA that much I had a wicked night out last night, and am now sitting at the airport again (surprise!). Subrosa Purr rocked it, demonstrating exactly what the guys over at Dangerbird were thinking way back when as they signed them up for an EP along with their better known peers Silversun Pickups (who are incidentally playing the Popscene party tomorrow night in SF) one off hand comment from the Subrosas did make me chuckle "we have 6000 friends on myspace, and there's 50 of you here... now we know who our real friends are." Which got me thinking about rating your friends by the number of times they view your page.. then I started thinking that that is wrought with stalker potential.. and then I had another Red Bull!

pic: Subrosa Purr : ain't no pussycats

Post purr, I set off to Safari Sams to catch the end of OK Go who as we walked in were in the middle of lip-syncing and performing their now famous YouTube treadmill dance routine with the camp sincerity usually reserved for German burlesque dancers...(read "it was hysterical") and of course the crowd dug it big time.. what was also rare and pleasing to see was at the end of the set, the band finished, the DJ cranked up the house system.. and a club full of Angelenos started dancing!!.. I was wondering if they we're all hopped up on Christmas cheer, but was told "Tuesdays at Safari Sams are alway like this.".. who knew?  What I would recommend if you're in LA Jan 26th would be popping out to the house o Sam for Veruca Salt.. who as I've mentioned before have not only completely redefined themselves with a killer new lineup.. but also rock harder than..mmm (thinks) harder than this crappy cookie I'm trying to eat!

pic: OK Go : This ain't no disco!

ok plane announcements seem to be getting more positive... back to the frozen powerless PNW..

l8t

r

pictures vs 1000's of words

finally I have coaxed pictures from my phone... so here's a big photo dump of stuff for you

Pic: The Zune room at this years Xbox/Zune holiday party t-60minutes

Pic: Xbox stage t-60minutes

Pic: DJ DB rocking the Xbox stage around 1am....

Pic: We Are Scientists-live at the British Consulate in NYC last Friday(for some reason they invited yours truely) NME party.

pic: Astralwerks Christmas Party- Friday night was "large" this was the last party at the Astralwerks digs before their move in early 2007.. needless to say they weren't too worried about making a mess of the carpet.. or the walls... ceiling... or themselves!

pic: one of the many reasons I wont have power at my house until after Christmas...ahh the joys of country life!..Apocalypto Carnation Style!

That's all for today, I'm in LA for meetings and tonight I'm off to see Subrosa Purr tonight, whose myspace page I would link to if it hadn't dissappeared!..

oh NP: Dynamite MC -World Of Dynamite

l8t

r

Holiday Cheer

Well again the damn phone is holding my pictures... and these ones are from the Xbox/Zune Holiday bash last weekend which featured a host of entertainment including Eagles of Death Metal , fresh from getting booted from the GnR tour and in great spirits they rocked hard and the peeps liked it!.. well you'd imagine they would I guess!

pic: Jesse Hughes-a rockin American

My good friend Sarah took some candid pics of the band which can be found here.  Anyway I'll get my pics up here as soon as I can.. I'm of to NYC in the morning for some fun with NME at the British Consulate no less!!  and of course I'm going to pop by the Astralwerks Holiday bash.. so with that in mind.. see y'all soon

r