Here some of the more interesting music news shorts:

-Mariah Carey performed five songs during a brief concert at a Hollywood shopping mall on Thursday. How cool is that!

-Philip Morris International, the original sponsor of Alicia Keys’ gig in Jakarta last tonight, pulled down all its promotional billboards and posters after the singer spoke out against the tobacco company’s sponsorship of her show.

-Miley Cyrus’ non-Hannah album, Breakout, broke onto the charts at No. 1, selling 371,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen SoundScan data released today.

Have a rock’in weekend, especially my Canadian readers you are off on a long one……

The BBC will air a long lost Beatles interview featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney talking about the day they met and their songwriting partnership.  The amazing film interview lay forgotten for over 44 years in a garage in south London until film fan Richard Jeffs realized a piece of pop culture history at his fingertips. Experts were quite surprised to find the audio portion still usable for radio broadcast.

The nine-minute interview was recorded at the Scottish Television studios in April 1964 during the early days of Beatlemania. It will be broadcast for the first time on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday and repeated later this week.  On the tape, Lennon tells how he was playing with a skiffle band outside Liverpool when McCartney introduced himself.  I am really looking forward to hearing this historic interview.

So he will probably win it all, that cute guy, David Archuleta.  He was even a really cute baby, sort of…..he looks like most other babies.

This pic really says it all, if the Monkees did a cover of Y.M.C.A it would look exactly like this!

Creative credit: marcroballistic

Ok, Kristy Lee is gone and I am a little sad but she made it very far and I am sure she has a solid career ahead of her.  Big surpise last night, Brooke goes home….I think she was the best singer in the competition and I am very surprised Jason is still there…maybe girls think he is cute?  I personally think he should have been out at number 11 or 12.  It still looks live David Archelleta is the one to beat and I don’t think any of the other remaining contestants have a chance.  I really thought Brooke, Carly or maybe Johns might have been the dark horses to beat David but without them I think he has it all wrapped up.

Without music life would be a mistake.  Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is the poetry of the air.  Richter

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.  Confucius

I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.  Elvis Presley

Convicts in Peru sing-off at a prison in Lima to their own, jail-house version of the popular TV show “American Idol.”  Augusto Flores was the winner of the first prize for a song he wrote called “Your Visit,” about waiting for news from his family and friends.

He won a guitar, a trophy and a pair of shoes. Winners of “American Idol” competitions, which gives ordinary people a chance at stardom, win recording contracts and global fame.  Not all of the contestants made it to the finals of the “Melodies of Freedom” competition, billed as a settling of scores between a dozen convicts from prisons across Peru’s biggest city.

Juan Jose Gutierrez, under house arrest after being released on parole, sent in a choppy music video. Promoters jazzed it up by flanking the screen with psychedelic lights and a smoke machine.

Others said they were just happy to be there.  “This is like a day of freedom,” Javier Casal, who sang an original song called “Freedom,” said. “And that’s the best prize we can get.” Excerpts from the contest were shown on the local television news.

I know it might be a bit pre-mature and it is probably based on the fact that Kristy Lee is so darn sexy but I think she has a good shot at making it to the finals!  Go Kristy go!

One of my favorite things to do lately is to find cool remix videos of popular music on YouTube. There are so many cool and creative folks out there that do a fantastic job at creating these vids. One of my favorite (I am posting below) is a couple of hot sexy babes named Lynne & Tessa, they do tons of great fun remixes and they even have their own website. I have also been know to spend time checking out the latest movies archive when the mood strikes.

As you can probably tell by the topic of this blog, I am a huge music fan.  I love singing in the shower, the car and while surfing the web.  While surfing the internet I always keep a keen eye out for good free music offers.  I especially like it when they offers include free music trials, many sites to offer you this chance so why not take advantage of it and check-out some free tunes.