October 2009
15 posts
WatchHappy Halloween, enjoy Megadeth Radio’s Halloween mix today.
Mike Doughty in StreamJam 10/31
Tomorrow night Mike Doughty will be streaming live into StreamJam. StreamJam is a project I have been working on months. Currently in alpha, StreamJam is on its way to become a perpetual 24/7 online music festival with venues embedded on pages across the Web. In short, its streaming video meets social games.
Mike Doughty’s latest album, Sad Man Happy Man, has received praise from both the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25) →
The National (18)
Band Of Skulls (16)
Wilco (10)
Lykke Li (10)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (9)
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WatchGreat presentation. Digital Strangelove by David Gillespie
Track and Fields →
Tracks & Fields is a community for musicians and producers to collaborate on new songs. As well as collaborating over the web and procuring feedback this way, musicians are able to employ an online 8 track sequencer to create new music in real-time, as if they were all in the same room. Musicians can also connect with producers through the site.
found via Jolicloud
Friends - Band of Skulls, The Twilight Saga: New...
Facebook’s Gift Shop Sings A New Tune →
Following Google’s announcement of its music product this morning, Facebook is officially enhancing its Gift Shop with a redesign and new categories of gifts and additional gifts for charity, music and sports from developers. The changes will be rolled out to users in the coming weeks
On Facebook’s Gift Shop, you need to purchase credits on the site (via credit card), that cost 10 cents in U.S....
MySpace Launches a Hulu for Music Videos →
Today sees the launch of MySpace Music Videos, a searchable collection of music videos from all of its major and independent label partners. With the wide array of players MySpace Music has in its pocket, the music videos archive could shape up to be a comprehensive and always-on music video library heretofore unseen — a sort of on-demand MTV for the Web 2.0 generation, or a Hulu () for music...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18) →
Kanye West (32)
The Decemberists (26)
Sublime (20)
TV on the Radio (16)
Ani DiFranco (15)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11) →
Jets to Brazil (14)
Arctic Monkeys (11)
The Beatles (7)
Arcade Fire (6)
Burning Airlines (5)
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Carly Simon v. Starbucks: You Probably Think This... →
The Starbucks counter may resemble a CD store, but Carly Simon does not feel like the coffee conglomerate did enough for her recent album.
So she’s taking them to court and bringing in a big legal gun - super lawyer David Boies.
Simon signed with Starbucks label Hear Music, but five days before the release of her 2008 album, “This Kind of Love,” Starbucks “scaled back its...
Dutch Music Rights Association Plans To Charge $32... →
Buma/Stemra, a Dutch collective rights society that represents the interests of copyright holders (some 19,000 composers, authors and publishers), is the topic of the day in the Dutch blogosphere and beyond. The association has managed to wield itself into the eye of the storm because of the introduction of new, exorbitantly high digital music licensing fees, and its stated willingness to fine...
Public Enemy will partner with fan-funding site... →
Hip hop pioneers Public Enemy will partner with fan-funding site Sellaband to finance their next album. Public Enemy is one of the first established acts to sign up to Sellaband’s new custom funding program and aims to raise $250,000 for the album in $25 increments. Public Enemy was incidentally also one of the first acts to release music on mp3.
Amsterdam-based Sellaband allows artists to...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4) →
Notorious B.I.G. (22)
Jets to Brazil (21)
Bob Marley (11)
Wilco (7)
The Killers (5)
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Bojam Launches Web-Based Collaborative Sound... →
One of last year’s TechCrunch50 startups, Bojam, is launching in public beta today and we have 500 invites. Bojam is a Web-based sound studio that lets musicians practice playing music, find other musicians around the world to jam with, and lay down tracks together on the same song. Click here to try out the service.
via TechCrunch