Instead of whining about me not getting my dream job I’ll just introduce you to some of my new music.
Starting off with a Discovery Download from the iTunes Store: A little bit of country music brings you Ha-Ash feat. Brandi Carlile with their song Already Home (Amazon w/ preview). It’s nice and emotional and well worth listening to. Continuing with country: I finally decided to re-buy some songs by Mark Wills from his album Wish You Were Here. I originally bought the CD back in 1998 while I was …

It’s time again to do your ears some good so hear are my recommendations for this week:
First off is “My Day So Far” by John Powell from the Motion Picture Soundtrack “Jumper”. While movie itself (starring Hayden Christiansen) is boring to the point of sleep inducing, the very first track that is played when the movie opens is pretty cool, especially the first 10-20 seconds. Luckily, iTunes could still my thirst for this track immediately. [iTunes Link]
Next are two songs by one of my favorite bands, Lifehouse. I thought …

There we go again, new music discoveries are waiting to be shared:
While the new movie was not really all that terrific, the »X-Files« music still sends shivers down my spine. I remember how I fought with my parents to watch the show. Back in 1994, when the show started on German TV, we didn’t have a VCR. So I held my audio tape recorder against the speakers of the TV and recorded the audio, always hushing my mom or dad when they spoke up during those 45 minutes. I loved the …

Just a quick music update:
Perfectly timed with the Olympics many artists have released singles and two have caught my ear: Kate Voegele with “Lift Me Up” [YouTube] and Chris Brown with “Dreamer” [YouTube]. I could put them on repeat for hours, the songs are great.
After I have already recommended Jon McLaughlin with “So Close” [YouTube] from the wonderful movie »Enchanted«, there’s another song I want to bring your attention: “Proud Father” [YouTube] encompasses everything I like about his music.
And as an Oldie I will throw in “Faithfully” by Journey [YouTube].

I have stumbled across a song on iTunes that I want to share with you. What made me listen to the sample was a comment by another iTunes user that was short, but electrified me:
“Girl in the War” could change your life if you let it. Such clarity and beauty is worth listening to again and again.
- linsdarlene
Usually comments are long winded and not very informative, but this one was just too interesting to pass up. And the little I heard of the song in the 30 second sample made …

If you are a Lifehouse fan then go to iTunes or your (online) music shop of choice and buy the new release of their song “Broken”. I already had the song, it came with their last album, which I downloaded the minute it became available on iTunes. But their rendition of »Broken« is just absolutely wonderful. If you don’t know anything about the song, read the lyrics here.

iTunes Link Broken
But that’s not all: Currently the iTunes Store if offering the book “The Alchemist” by world-renown author Paulo Coelho for FREE until …

Recently I discovered a music site called Magnatune through a blogpost on WWdN:Exile (Wil Wheaton dot Net in Exile). This site is just awesome – you can listen to all the music for free, to begin with. You don’t have to put up with some low-quality-20-second snippet, you can listen to complete songs and thereby decide whether you like it or not.
And when you decide to buy, you get to choose the price, starting at $5 for a complete album. 50% go directly to the artist, so it’s really fair …

Ok, this going to be a lot, so I’ll just jump right at it:
Jordin Sparks: I just stumbled across her on iTunes. When I read the official review I first thought the album would be complete rubbish, but that just shows that not everyone at Apple does have a taste when it comes to music (though, in general, their music choices are really cool). Anyway, I listened to all the previews and in the end I decided to go for the Deluxe version of the album, because I liked the …