Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
If you've never seen Auto-Tune the News, you're missing out. If you push play and are thinking WTF, give it a few moments until your ears adjust to hearing popular media figures being Auto-Tuned -- (the vocal effect of the minute in hip-hop and rap) -- and you may find ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Back To The Back To The Future from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.
This one may have come to my attention via The Twitter. Not sure. Anyway, I can see how either this could annoy Back to the Future purists or totally delight. It basically takes bits of the flick and mixes ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
Kickstarter is a fairly new way to fund various ideas and undertakings. People who wish to fund a project -- say a musician, a filmmaker, an artist, etc. -- sign up on Kickstarter and anyone who wishes to pledge toward it can do so and may receive "rewards" (such as ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
I signed up for and have just been invited to beta test the Free Music Archive. The Free Music Archive has launched into public beta. Right off the bat I must say it is by far the best designed and most comprehensive source of podsafe music I've ever encountered.
Jason Sigal, ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Found out about We are Hunted from the 37signal's Signal vs. Noise Blog, who say, basically, the real draw here, the thing that sets We are Hunted apart from other similar music sites is its large album art. But the S vs. N Blog doesn't point out what the site ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Here are three things I'm currently looking forward to checking out in more depth; that is, spend some more time on:
David Lynch Foundation Television -- The psychologically macabre director has launched a video intensive site promoting his love of transcendental meditation. Good Magazine blurb here.
Stereofame -- Chance to win prizes ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Techcrunch has just reviewed thesixtyone. I suggest you go there if you want details on the ins and outs of how thesixtyone operates, but basically the service is like a Digg for indie music on steroids.
A user gets so many heart points to heart up, or help make popular, songs ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
So I "managed"/roadied for the now defunct band Big Orange Torpedo in the mid 90's. The group cycled through a small list of members but at it's core were John Webb, James Kline and Phil Balsman (pictured left to right). The guys attended Perryville High School and their tunes, like ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
The term "content" -- referring to material that constitutes a publication or document for an audience -- is abhorrent. Applying the word "content" essentially cheapens the writing, music, video or whatever other form of media one is taking in and attempting to gain a life enriching experience from it.
The ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
For streaming music on demand, Rhapsody reigned supreme for a long time. That time, I believe, is now over. For one thing, Rhapsody has no downloadable client for Mac. You must stream from their site. But the biggest letdown is the cash money it costs. Sure, it is a richer ...
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