Music, Music, Music! Last weekend, April 28th-30th, we enjoyed a live webbcast of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival streamed from the AT&T Blue Room. highlights included performances by Amos Lee, The Fratellis, Damien Rice and Regina Spektor.

For those who missed it the first time or for those who would like a second viewing, the webcast will be archived

"Famous Dead Men" Would So Rock! We amuse ourselves by sharing some of the names we've come up with for our non-existent band.

New Orleans Jazz Festival Laurie is pleased that the New Orleans Jazz Festival will be webcast live on May 5-6, 2007. She is particularly looking forward to seeing Van Morrison play, in addition to the performances of many other extraordinary musicians.

From Penpals to Podcasts: Communication in Many Forms Blogging New Orleans is covering the New Orleans Jazz Festival.

Give a Little Bit The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc. is a Louisiana non-profit corporation organized in 1970 to promote, preserve, perpetuate and encourage the music, arts, culture and heritage indigenous to the New Orleans area.

Nut of the Week We have a good laugh about the ludicrousness of "Captain Burrito." Watch the hilarious news story here.

Have You Heard? GOO GOO DOLLS' TRANSFORMING EXPERIENCE?

The Audiophile Reviews We enthuse about Slacker Radio.

In the News This has been a very exciting week for us, as two of the singer/songwriters whose music we've played on Random Fandom have been doing extremely well lately!

We were so happy to learn that Eoghan Colgan, whose music and podcast we've featured, recently won the 02 "Undiscovered" competition!

We were also thrilled to discover that Shawn Hlookoff, whose song, "Addicted," we featured on our very first show, has been breaking download records in Canada! It now appears that he's about to take the U.S. by storm: Shawn Hlookoff, Canada's Hottest new export comes to L.A.

Check out Shawn's MySpace page and his vidcast, My Life in Video, to learn more about him and his music.

Congratulations to Eoghan and Shawn on their outstanding accomplishments! We wish them the best for their projects and will be watching to see what's next for them both!

Wordplay The amount of time that can be wasted while playing with Google Fight is amazing!

Funky Food We take a break from featuring a disturbing recipe to focus on the fact that May is National BBQ Month. As resident South Texans, we can attest to the truth of this: South Texas seems to cultivate outstanding BBQ cooks.

Here's something yummy to try next time you grill: Grilled Fruit Shortcake.

Two Shes in a Pod: Podcasting News
Pod Camp San Antonio: The Unconference will be held May 19! This sure to be fun and informative event is being organized by Jennifer Navarette and Jackie Adame of The Morning Brewcast and Michael De Leon of The Spurscast. We truly regret that we will miss this opportunity to meet many of our fellow Texas podcasters!

Random Fandom Feedback Thanks to everyone who contacted us this week! Your comments and thoughts are always appreciated!

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Featured Artist of the Week Artist: Eoghan Colgan Song Title: "That First Time" Links: Eoghan Colgans Official Site, Eoghan Colgan's MySpace Page, Eoghan Colgan at The Podsafe Music Network

Thanks to Eoghan Colgan for generously allowing us to play his song on Random Fandom.

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