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Rockworld TV Announces Exclusive Programming Alliance With Rock-On TV Featuring The Best Of Classic Rock Starting In August! Rockworld TV is the UK’s premier Indie Rock TV channel featuring emerging and exciting bands from the UK and U.S. in exclusive live performances. Unlike any music channel in the world, Rockworld is all about live music from the most compelling new indie, rock and metal bands. ROCK-on tv is the home of Classic Rock in the UK.

Well, today’s blog will be a deep in depth study on the somewhat legendary Elton John/Bernie Taupin composition “Holiday Inn.” Ok, let us learn, a little bit more…The song “Holiday Inn” was included on the 1971 Elton John release “Madman Across the Water” back in the early days of the Elton John/Bernie Taupin writing team (Elton would write the music, and Bernie the lyrics of course), but what you man not have known was that the lyrics went through a few incarnations or transformations, Below

Staci Kramer over at paidContent pretty much sums it up : On the internet, any media outlet can overcome its single-dimension status offline. Print outlets can excel in video, local TV stations can add text and stills, radio can get visual. When  NPR.org relaunches overnight, it will add all kinds of features to enhance and extend its audio, including improved search, embedding and transcripts, and more multimedia. But at a time when others are pushing ahead with video, National Public Radio is standing still.

Happy Friday everyone! The weekend is here and as for most of my weekends, random things always end up happing. Whenever I do a Random Music Friday I like to keep it as random as possible with music from all genres and from all eras. However, today will not be the case as I will only post new music. I have been fortunate enough to have artists send me their music to post on the site and it would just be unfair to post old songs with such great talent coming in. Enjoy! We start off with a colorful experimental/instrumental song.

The flow of popular new indie and alternative rock albums and songs in recent months has made it… Check out Indie Rock Cafe for more, and more…

Who wants to join “Armstrong on Moon”, my new indie rock band? Seriously: try to convince me this isn’t the perfect album cover. Related: Thanks to Jason Kottke for his epic Apollo 11 replay .

If you haven’t had a chance to check out this cool new indie rock band Settle , then what are you waiting for? “Murder” is off their Epitaph debut, At Home We Are Tourists . Get into it.

A number of great new indie songs have come out in the past week, including tracks from current and… Check out Indie Rock Cafe for more, and more…

Is this the FBI undercover? Probably not, so this must be a genuine Muzak vehicle. Can you believe that they’re still operating after all these years? There was that BK business ( in industry parlance “BK” means bankruptcy , for some odd reason) earlier in the year , but obviously that hasn’t kept the rolling stock from rolling. They’ve got ladders and everything.

The Almighty Defenders – “Bow Down and Die” ; A song that features the Black Lips, King Khan, and BBQ Show on one track is just not fair, it’s like shooting hipsters in a barrel because they just know we’re gonna go apeshit over it! It doesn’t matter that it sounds like everyone is singing into only one functioning microphone, it doesn’t matter that this was done in Berlin when Black Lips barely escaped India, all that matters is that it fucking rocks and it’s really not fucking fair that shit like this happens and we don’t get to watch!