Groove Project mixes animation with carefree jazz

Here's a very relaxing chill down performance of "In the Real Life" by Groove Project for after hours. This production that includes amazing computer animation blows away 99.9% of the music videos you will ever see on cable tv. While most expensive big name videos use lip-syncing, fake acting or meaningless plots to fit in with all the other boring generic music videos, this masterpiece obviously stands out as unique and was created for artistic reasons. Visit www.thegrooveproject.com.

The Groove Project: "In The Real Life"

Tribal Seeds rocks you with reggae

Reggae music continues to thrive in San Diego as Tribal Seeds performs "Island Girl" live for a crowd of lively thrill seekers. The band's natural bond with fun loving people is captured in this video that shows people swaying carefree without acting out of line. There's probably a hundred more bands like this in San Diego that help promote peace, love and understanding.

Tribal Seeds "Island Girl"

Homeless Tom plays lives in Las Vegas

Here's Homeless Tom playing live. The song is called "Uh Huh." If you can handle the disturbing lyrics, chances are you'll like the haunting beautiful melody. You can find out more at www.myspace.com/homelesstommusic. This is yet another example of independent music worth listening to instead of canned stuff that will be forgotten by the end of the year.

Homeless Tom Live: "Uh-Huh"

Surf music wiped out long ago...except in New Zealand

Surf music was a craze of the early to mid sixties in America. Then it went away, although diehard fans remained sprinkled across the globe. Now New Zealand artist Peter Fahley steps up to offer a surf revival with the song "Watch Me Fly." It's at least a good action song for surf videos and the groove is hypnotic. And it almost goes without saying that any song listed on this site is about 25 times better than the best song on the current American pop charts. Learn more at www.surfr.blogspot.com.

"Watch Me Fly" Northland New Zealand Surf

Creative Commons opens the door to royalty free media

Creative Commons is an emerging organization that allows artists and producers of the new century to use media without worrying about copyright laws that would otherwise hold them back from creating art out of someone else's art. Just a decade ago no one even worried about making mix tapes or recording songs off the radio. Then the 2000s became jerky about copyrights and now Creative Commons puts the problem to rest.

Creative Commons: "Get Creative"

Animated "History of the Internet" useful to new media entrepreneurs

Here's an example of how animation can be a strong educational tool, making it worth your time. It's an example of what the internet should be all about: mixing education and entertainment to produce an inspired result. In reality this video is simply a golden needle in a haystack of worthless web pages. Not only will this video make you smarter about internet history, it might even inspire you to create your own online masterpiece, making you a part of internet history. Find out more about this video at www.picol.org.

History of the Internet

A dream job if you love music and tech

Music and tech are two fun careers that merge into one job for Ethan Kaplan, the Vice President of Technology for Warner Brothers Records. Ethan explains how he went from being an R.E.M. fan to web developer of not just their site, but the entire array of Warner artist websites. He admits the music industry fell way behind on the internet bandwagon, but part of his job is to make sure that never happens again (as if there's still time for the music biz to save itself).

Mahalo Daily with Veronica Belmont: Music Industry Tech Talk with Ethan Kaplan

How about just a bass solo by Victor Wooten?

Why do we always feel we need to hear a bunch of instruments playing at one time?Any quality instrument has its own beauty when played solo, which is what Victor Wooten does in this live video. Here he presents an elaborate spectrum of the many things that can be done on bass without relying on song structure. So much of the music we usually hear, regardless of genre, was crafted from layers of sounds. Sometimes we need to break out of the box we're conditioned to accept and search for a whole new groove.

Victor Wooten