Because we like you, we at Music-Is-Life have decided that in addition to having your back in the online music community, we should also give you a daily does of a tunes. Come on what is Music-Is-Life if not music oriented? So starting today and hopefully every day (maybe weekends off), we will post a video for you to start your day. No long diatribe of text, no delightful comments and no opinions. Just the video.

We think that for those that don’t have time to read our posts, this will give you another option on connecting with the community. You can still comment on the video and say if you like it or not. Another reason for doing this is so that even if we don’t has any earth shattering music news, we’ll still have your back with a great video.
So enjoy this first one.

For those of you in the Pacific Northwest (more specifically Seattle) and if you were in the right place at the right place at the right time, you were treated to a stirring rendition of Modest Mouse’s” “3rd Planet”. Well here’s the scoop kiddies and this is taken directly from someone who knows Christopher Frizzelle at the … yep Seattle Stranger. Leave it to Music-Is-Life to bring you all the new you want to know.

“She was shouting out the lyrics to Modest Mouse’s“3rd Planet” as loudly as possible—really shouting—while playing an invisible electric guitar and invisible drums. The lyrics are extra creepy when they’re being sung so emphatically.”

Can you imagine these lyrics sung at a high octave and in a booming voice?? We can and we love it. We all need spiked eggnog or what ever else to bring this wonderfulness to the world.

Call us wrong but this would have been definitely a video worth seeing. What we mean to say is not that it would have been interesting to see someone making a fool of themselves, but more so someone so in love with a band and a specific song, that we all know what its like to express ourselves that way. However, since we couldn’t find that video, here’s the the original. Enjoi!

Have you heard of the new Napster, oh wait I guess we should say Napster Clone? No, well we here at Music-Is-Life got your back so we wanted to keep you in the loop! It’s called Vye Music and comes directly from a 16-year Gold Coast kid who is promoting the downloading (can we say theft) of music with his new site. He goes on to say that Vye Music can be described as a “meta-search engine” that allows you to “discover, stream, share and download millions of tracks”.

If we take a look at this website Vye Music, we can see it looks like it’s a rushed attempt to make some quick dough. Do you see all those ads on the side? Personally we looked into what all the hub-bub is about and most articles are talking about it being a Napster or Kazaa Clone and has a very similar business model. BUT NOT SO FAST SHERLOCK, could what this kid (and his backers) actually be doing is racking in the bills from the ads?

Kazaa and Napster back in the day were made to share music. They believed in the concept of a free space where people could share music that had been bought with others with similar tastes. Their business model wasn’t to rake in the cash through millions of webpage ads. Napster even went so far as to fight in court for the free sharing of music. Of course they lost, as we all remember. What Vye is appearing to do though is not develop a community of sharing music. It looks like they know that the courts will chase them down. Come on!! how could they do a website that is so similar to ones that were already shut down unless their motives are something different?!

We think that Vye Music is cashing in while they can on a promising concept from our pasts. Not working for the artist, nor for the music community as a whole but milking everyone that believes in the united world of sound. Shame on them.