Such a handy tool for keeping tracks of your shows/finance and everything else related to your band. check it out
http://bandize.com/
Monday, July 27, 2009
Bandize
Such a handy tool for keeping tracks of your shows/finance and everything else related to your band. check it out
http://bandize.com/
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Wooden Shjips
If your in the mood for some Acid tinged Psych Rock in the vain of The Warlocks or Howlin' Rain or old skoolers like - 13th floor elevators or Iron Butterfly. Then hop on your magic carpet and check out this band - Wooden Shjips. Well worth investing some time into expanding your mind with their musical adventures.
http://www.myspace.com/woodenshjips
Mark Kozelek
Great interview by Alan Reilly with Mark Kozelek an old favorite from back in the day with Red House Painters & his most recent outings under the moniker Sun Kill Moon
http://www.markkozelek.com/
http://www.myspace.com/markkozelek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kozelek
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Collections of Colonies of Bees & Justin "Bon Iver" Vernon Collaboration
Get your hands on this as soon as you can. If you like the atmosphere and headspace of For Emma, forever ago. prepare to take a step beyond with this amazing new collaboration. it goes beyond what either band has tried before.
http://www.jagjaguwar.com/onesheet.php?cat=JAG156
http://www.jagjaguwar.com/onesheet.php?cat=JAG156
Top 5 favorite new band on myspace
1 http://www.myspace.com/goldheartassembly
"They take a joyous acoustic beardy bunch of ideas and mess around with them like a cat playing with a ball of string. Already you could easily put them out on tour supporting Fleet Foxes or The Low Anthem (now there's an idea). And they smile at each other on stage - which is so out of character for new bands these days (unless it's a nervous tick) that it's actually quite infectious." [Steve Lamacq]
2 http://www.myspace.com/fireonfiremusic
"they do it ¨old school¨ and just use two mics placed in front of them on the stage, like a bluegrass band. They all live in the same house up in Maine, across from rusting green oil tanks, apparently. To me they sound like a backwoods, fierce, psychedelic ¨Mamas And The Papas¨ or a crazed and vengeful gospel string band". [Taken from band bio]
3 http://www.myspace.com/megafaun
Former bandmates of Bon Iver continue to impress on this, their second album of ingeniously ramshackle folk rock. [Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork]
4 http://www.myspace.com/Bowerbirds
listening to Bowerbirds demands immersion...once you surrender to the group's internal logic, its values and ways of speech, the effect is routinely mesmerizing, not to mention far wiser and more self-aware than you'd expect at first blush [Joshua Love, Pitchfork]
5 http://www.myspace.com/CassMcCombs
McCombs has fashioned himself a groove as new school rambler and pokerfaced tone poet totally under the radar. It's a space he seems and sounds to have been most comfortable in. Until now. [David Bevan, Pitchfork]
"They take a joyous acoustic beardy bunch of ideas and mess around with them like a cat playing with a ball of string. Already you could easily put them out on tour supporting Fleet Foxes or The Low Anthem (now there's an idea). And they smile at each other on stage - which is so out of character for new bands these days (unless it's a nervous tick) that it's actually quite infectious." [Steve Lamacq]
2 http://www.myspace.com/fireonfiremusic
"they do it ¨old school¨ and just use two mics placed in front of them on the stage, like a bluegrass band. They all live in the same house up in Maine, across from rusting green oil tanks, apparently. To me they sound like a backwoods, fierce, psychedelic ¨Mamas And The Papas¨ or a crazed and vengeful gospel string band". [Taken from band bio]
3 http://www.myspace.com/megafaun
Former bandmates of Bon Iver continue to impress on this, their second album of ingeniously ramshackle folk rock. [Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork]
4 http://www.myspace.com/Bowerbirds
listening to Bowerbirds demands immersion...once you surrender to the group's internal logic, its values and ways of speech, the effect is routinely mesmerizing, not to mention far wiser and more self-aware than you'd expect at first blush [Joshua Love, Pitchfork]
5 http://www.myspace.com/CassMcCombs
McCombs has fashioned himself a groove as new school rambler and pokerfaced tone poet totally under the radar. It's a space he seems and sounds to have been most comfortable in. Until now. [David Bevan, Pitchfork]
Sunday, July 19, 2009
How music works
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2009/04/how-music-works.html
One of my all time favorite documentaries by the man who wrote the theme music to RED DWARF - Howard Goodall
In this four-part series he strips music down to its essential parts to find out how music works.
really great insights into how simple music can actually be to understand
One of my all time favorite documentaries by the man who wrote the theme music to RED DWARF - Howard Goodall
In this four-part series he strips music down to its essential parts to find out how music works.
really great insights into how simple music can actually be to understand
Shout out
This is my new friend Peter's music blog. great source of all things going on in the irish scene. Keep up the good work peter. oh and thanks for plugging my band so much
http://2uibestow.blogspot.com/
http://2uibestow.blogspot.com/
www.synthmuseum.com
http://www.synthmuseum.com/
For anyone else out there who loves the geek side of piano/keys/synth playing
For anyone else out there who loves the geek side of piano/keys/synth playing
Blitzen Trapper - New Daytrotter Session
I found out about this band after looking up who would be supporting Wilco on tour. Great alt-Country/Rock band similar in alot of way to Wilco & Grandaddy.
Band Site
http://www.blitzentrapper.net/
Daytrotter Session
http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/blitzen-trapper-where-the-rifle-casings-lie-with-underbrush-concert/20030445-110844.html
propellerheads - RECORD
http://www.propellerheads.se/products/record/
Welcome to Record, Propellerhead Software's brand new recording software. Record gives you unlimited audio tracks, world class effects and mixing gear, and a whole new take on music recording. With an intuitive, straightforward interface and a hands-on approach to capturing performances, Record was designed for musicians - not audio engineers. This is recording done right.
Well so the people at Propellerhead say. should be interesting to see if it takes off.
Here's the video advert
Welcome to Record, Propellerhead Software's brand new recording software. Record gives you unlimited audio tracks, world class effects and mixing gear, and a whole new take on music recording. With an intuitive, straightforward interface and a hands-on approach to capturing performances, Record was designed for musicians - not audio engineers. This is recording done right.
Well so the people at Propellerhead say. should be interesting to see if it takes off.
Here's the video advert
monsters of folk
http://monstersoffolk.com/
Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst plus My Morning Jacket's Jim James plus M. Ward & producer Mike Mogis are Monsters of Folk. "Say Please", A track from their self-titled debut album (out September 22. Not really a folky affair, but its a cracking song all the same.
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