November 2009
35 posts
Music Hack Day Boston Wrap up: It Rocked! →
Music Hack Day Boston sounds awesome. I’m definitely attending a Music Hack Day if it comes to NYC and we’ll make StreamJam do something cool :)
Read about it.
Games for music education →
Music students at New York City’s East Side Community High School are throwing out their guitars, pianos and cowbells, with one program at the school instead teaching kids with PSPs and copies of Rockstar’s Beaterator.
“It a fully featured studio that runs on a pocket-sized device,” says an instructor at the school. “They’re able to learn music theory in a...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
Modest Mouse (73)
Band Of Skulls (17)
Them Crooked Vultures (14)
The White Stripes (13)
Wilco (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
What a Rock Band Can Teach Businesses About Social... →
Chester French is a rock band that has built an application on the Force.com platform. That’s compelling for the simple fact that when a rock and roll band develops its own application, you know that the market is seeing a far wider adoption than it has ever before.
Even more, it’s an important reminder of the advantage of building your own applications over complete reliance on a...
50 Cent Symbolizes the Impending Live Video... →
Some of the recent numbers being put up by live video events on the Web are giving TV a run for its money. Take for example the New Moon Premiere, which attracted 3 million viewers in total, a U2 concert on YouTube that reached 10 million, and the red carpet event for This Is It, which saw 1.8 million tune in.
Today, we have yet another big number to share, this time from last night’s Ustream ()...
Susan Boyle Album Sets Pre-order Record On Amazon →
I won’t call this transmedia… but there are some transmedia principals at work here.
“A captain of the sinking boat doesn’t get to drive the tugboat.”
– Jonathan Ammons on major label doubts about Spotify
Last.fm's fantasy festival (like fantasy football) →
How it works:
You have €1,000,000 to spend on a 15 artist line up for your Fantasy Festival. Pick your all time favourite artists or pick artists you think are up and coming. If your line up ranks highest in *Buzz points you could win some pretty awesome prizes (more about the prizes here). Each week *Buzz points are determined by what artists are getting the most online buzz based on data from...
Shakira Debuts Music Video on Ustream →
In the last week 2 million uniques for the New Moon red carpet event & 95K uniques for a 10 minute broadcast of Shakira’s new music video. The Live Internet has arrived. Makes me even more excited about StreamJam.
“One of the godfathers of venture capital is, we were told, obsessed with secret...”
– Glen Kelman, Good Question! The Eight Best Questions We Got While Raising Venture Capital
“He says Stickers! I say Scratch and Sniff stickers! He thinks I’m a genius.”
– Len of Jawbone Radio in his post Best Presentation Ever. Much of that post resonates with me but especially the quote above… the life of a creative.
New Moon Webcast Breaks Records: 3 Million Viewers →
Live events on the Internet have been established in the last few months. Myspace’s Twilight New Moon Red Carpet Event’s 2 million uniques is the latest to show that you can grow huge live audiences on the web.
via Mashable
Future of Music Coalition's Brian Zisk: The Do's... →
RWW: If not through editors, then how do you like to discover new music? One of the features that I love is the ability to drill down into the music any way you want. For example, with Spotify you can search on a band and find their albums, and then start listening to their body of work chronologically. From there, you can choose whatever song you like, listen to it again and again, and then...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
Foo Fighters (11)
The Smashing Pumpkins (4)
Modest Mouse (3)
The Mars Volta (2)
Nine Inch Nails (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I’ve been a part of a lot of businesses that have failed. And I believe...”
– Snoop Dogg via The Business Insider
An experiment with UStream video in native Flash... →
Good stuff going on at @becarella’s blog. Check out this 3D Ustream cube she blogged about.
Link
“Those who say it cannot be done shouldn’t interrupt the people doing it”
– Don Dodge via TechCrunch
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8) →
Death Cab for Cutie (15)
Gorillaz (14)
Kanye West (12)
Weezer (5)
Frank Sinatra (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1) →
The Dresden Dolls (34)
Nine Inch Nails (25)
The Smashing Pumpkins (19)
Arcade Fire (10)
Tool (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Bleach” at 20: How Kurt Cobain Made a Masterpiece... →
“A recording done with specific commercial considerations in mind doesn’t tend to stand the test of time,” Endino said. “The production tends to date it. This year it’s Auto-Tune; last year it was sampling. With ‘Bleach,’ there’s no slickness to it. It’s a very honest record.”
The album’s stripped-down sound is as much a reflection of Nirvana’s punk ethos as it is the circumstances under which it...
MobBase D.I.Y. iPhone Apps →
Now the team behind MixMatchMusic are adding to the d.i.y. iPhone app toolbox with MobBase, a service that enables artist created custom iPhone apps.
Featured content supported includes:
Music including a buy function.
Videos: Share videos or or feed ar YouTube channel directly into the application. Fans can also upload their own videos to the app.
Photos: Create and share...