The Routes They Made
Monday, December 28th, 2009 Posted in Site Updates, Your Discography Help Requested | No Comments »The New York Times site has a slide show called "The Music They Made". It is a series of black-and-white photos and music snippets covering famous/important musicians who passed away in 2009. I've entered most (but not all—see below) of ...
Six Degrees Of Steve Martin
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Site Updates, Your Discography Help Requested | 2 Comments »Someone did a bunch of searches trying to connect Steve Martin to various musicians. Some of the connections worked and some didn't. I added some data so that they all work. Steve Martin to Bruce Springsteen Steve Martin to ...
Vincent Price and (of course) Kevin Bacon
Sunday, March 1st, 2009 Posted in Site Updates | No Comments »Vincent Price had a well-known cameo on Michael Jackson's Thriller and a less well-known cameo on Alice Cooper's Welcome To My Nightmare. Kevin Bacon is in The Bacon Brothers with Michael Bacon. They had Jon Bon Jovi as a guest musician ...
Swedish Punk Bands, Part 2
Sunday, December 14th, 2008 Posted in Site Updates | No Comments »I finally have enough data to connect No Fun At All to other bands and musicians. Not sure why, but someone wanted to connect them to Iron & Wine. So, here you go. Photo by Carlos Andrés Restrepo
Swedish Punk Bands, Part 1
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 Posted in Site Updates, Your Discography Help Requested | No Comments »I guess my sister tipped off her Swedish in-laws and friends to Music Routes. Swedish punk bands have showed up in the log of routes that people search for but which are not yet in the database. Naturally, I feel ...
GG Allin and Hannah Montana
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 Posted in Site Updates | No Comments »A few days ago, some wag decided it would be fun to search for a route between GG Allin and Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus. At the time, there was no data in the Music Routes database to connect those two...um...performers. Now, there is. ...
The Von Bondies To Yma Sumac
Sunday, November 16th, 2008 Posted in Site Updates, Your Discography Help Requested | No Comments »A few days ago, someone searched for a route between The Von Bondies and Yma Sumac. At the time, there wasn't enough data in the database to connect them, but now they are connected. However, the route is a whopping 14 ...
Paul Anka to Megadeth in 1 step
Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in Site Updates | No Comments »When I started Music Routes, one of the uses I imagined was for people to find music that they might not normally know about but that they might have an interest in. If you like Albert Ayler and Frank Zappa, ...
Isaac Hayes, R.I.P.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 Posted in Site Updates | No Comments »Soul great Isaac Hayes passed away today. I went to IsaacHayes.com to see if there was any news about it, and found this page which (as of this writing) prominently features a photo of Hayes, Bernie Mac (who passed away ...
Frank Sinatra Duets Have Quite An Impact
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 Posted in Site Updates | No Comments »In the last post, I suggested trying a route from GG Allin to Kenny G that goes through J Mascis, Dave Grohl, Brian May, Luciano Pavarotti, and Frank Sinatra. I added a bunch of Frank Sinatra duets to the database today. ...