Joel Freimark hosts The Daily Guru, which is a simply produced talk show that gives recommendations and commentaries about musicians and songs, or anything along the music genre for that matter. In fact, it’s so simply produced that it’s boring. And I’m a massive music lover, always eager to learn more about this incredible art form. I, so badly, wanted to like this series.
Freimark clearly knows a ton of cool stuff about music and musicians. There is no problem with a lack of content in each episode. It’s that Freimark speaks a mile a second. Each episode is loaded with a ton of unnecessary hard cuts. And… there’s no music in the show. NO MUSIC!
Episode after episode, Freimark recommends song after song and he doesn’t give us even a tiny sample of the music for that song. I don’t understand why he doesn’t. It’s not like the musicians who own any of his recommended songs will come after him with breech of copyright. After all, he’s promoting them and recommending that his viewers listen and own these songs.
Once in a while, Freimark turns an episode into a history lesson about one musician or another. But no pictures of any of the musicians are inserted in the episodes. No music samples for any of the musicians are included either. Quelle surprise! All we get are hard, fast cuts of Freimark’s head and shoulders – cut after cut after cut, Freimark, Freimark, Freimark.
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I have to give this show a totally squashed pumpkin. In its current state, it’s unwatchable. But, it has potential to be a great show with a few tweaks in the production. Hopefully, the producers of this series will give it the minor changes The Daily Guru needs in order to be a decently watchable program.
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Bandwagon is a docu-comedy that follows a character called Emma Caulfield; a blond haired, blue eyed actress on a mission to make a difference in the world by producing a “Glee” like show for the black community. Actually, the character Emma Caulfield is a tangible person – one of the creators of this show, in fact. Is this as real a documentary as is the star of the show? I ask with tongue in cheek.
While this show has wicked characters and a cool plot line, it can be a bit cliche at times. Characters are predictable and sometimes a bit over the top in their personalities. However, with that said, it’s a blast to watch and down right funny! Bandwagon has some truly funny scenes and the actors are well cast, each performing their characters wonderfully – which could be because they are all possibly playing themselves like Caulfied. Who cares. It’s entertaining!
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I can’t give this series a full on pumpkin. But I have to say, I’d give it a pretty darn close one. It gets a half squashed pumpkin with a strong recommendation from me to go check it out!
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The Sessions Project is an interview between musical wonder will.i.am and filmmaker Norman Seeff. This is a production that is co-produced by the new Oprah network, OWN. We get to first see half the interview here in the net broken down into 4 parts (episodes), broadcasted on the L/Studio website. The full one hour interview will air later in the year, on OWN. This is a brilliant marriage between the internet and TV broadcasters. I love this idea. Bravo.
But back to the show… is it worth watching and waiting for the rest on OWN? It certainly is. Even if you aren’t a fan of will.i.am, you are highly entertained by a very well conducted interview. Seeff keeps the audience engaged by poking will.i.am with questions that just keep him talking and talking. will.i.am is a fascinating guy and I found his whole music making process quite interesting.
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This pumpkin is definitely not squashed! I hope there are others like this one coming down the pipeline!
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Legendary musician, Daryl Hall, joined the online broadcasting wave a few years back, in 2007, with his own web show called, “Live from Daryl’s House.” In spite of its casual look and laid back air about it, it is quite tightly produced. The premise is designed around Daryl “hanging” and jamming with his music friends. This show has garnered high recognition from all the major media outlets like Rolling Stone and CNN. And so it should. It’s what music fans have been hungry for, for decades. Fantastic music. Introductions to new up and coming musicians. And live performances of classic Hall and Oats songs. 
Each episode is packed with great music and, for some reason, a food segment which, for me, totally works. Music and food. Who’s going to argue with that combination.
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I love the way each episode is published on the website, with segments listed in a playlist allowing us to go back again and again to our favourite part. This is a must see. A fully unsquashed pumpkin goes to this amazing show.
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$5 Cover: Seattle is an MTV production being broadcast online. This series showcases local Seattle musicians in a docu-drama like setting. I can’t quite figure out if the lines are scripted or if it’s all improvised as it happens. Perhaps, it’s a bit of both. The storyline is thin but the music is kick ass good!
Each episode covers a new artist and then sometimes goes back to a previously showcased artist. Personally, I think the show would have done better to have picked one band and followed it through a summer tour. We would have gotten a better chance to know the musicians and their music.
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This show gets a half squashed pumpkin for the lack of storyline and structure but it is still worth checking out for the amazing music.
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