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Fun with SoundCloud

January 22, 2010 Music

I’ve been playing around with a service based here in Berlin called SoundCloud. It’s geared towards DJs who want to distribute their mixes making it drop-dead easy to upload typically large files and embed them across the web in widgets. The closest thing I would compare it to is the flickr badge for photos or [...]

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Misa, a touchpad guitar

January 20, 2010 Hardware

The Misa is “not a guitar” says Michael, it’s creator based out of Sydney, Australia. The Misa is designed to play electronic music.
In electronic music, the timbre (or colour) of the sound can be morphed in an infinite number of ways. For a guitar to accommodate this, the right hand needs more control than just [...]

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Phish, Embracing the Remix

October 22, 2009 Music

Jam bands like the Grateful Dead and Phish have always been ahead of the curve with how they let their fans record their concerts because as Jerry Garcia famously said, “Once we’re done with it, it’s theirs.”
These bands have always made more money on their tours than record sales anyway and because each show was [...]

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IT Conversations – Jon Udell & John Buckman

June 11, 2008 Music

Listened to a great IT Conversations podcast the other day in which Jon Udell and John Buckman (founder of Magnatune) had a great exchange on the future of online music.
Once the iPhone 3G enables all-you-can-eat streaming for music, the ipod becomes just a local cache, a hard disk buffer for music that you would normally [...]

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last.fm, full tracks now for free

January 24, 2008 Music

My favorite music site, last.fm has done away with the 30-second preview and now serves up full-length streams of all of their tracks, all for free. In a blog post, last.fm says that they’ll limit each track to three plays before a notice pops up promoting a new, Unlimited Listening Subscription. The artists will be [...]

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Band Name Origins

November 20, 2007 Music

Thanks to the Band Name Origins list, I now know how Led Zeppelin got their name.
Keith Moon told Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones that their new project would go over like a lead balloon, hence, Led Zeppelin. The ‘Led’ spelling was to make sure people pronounced the name right.

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last.fm artist page wiki

November 17, 2007 Music

Tonight I discovered that last.fm has a wiki to store biographies for each of the artists (here’s the entry for Radiohead). They offer a subscription to an RSS feed of recent changes but with a last.fm twist – it limit the feed to updates of changes and edits to only artists it thinks you’ll care [...]

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Billboard Magazine tracking blogs

November 12, 2007 Music

I had no idea but it makes total sense. Leaderboards are all the rage so it makes sense that the publication that started it all would track blog post mentions to see which musical artists are getting the most buzz. The site is pretty light on it’s methodology.
The Buzz 100 Chart is currently [...]

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Dark Side of the Moon on Ukulele – The Tatamimats

July 4, 2007 Music

This is one of those events that sounds worse than it really is – so San Francisco in it’s “why the hell not” spirit but click through to Laughing Squid’s embedded video of Pink Floyd’s Time and you’ll see it’s not that bad. With a few beers in my belly, I can imagine that I’d [...]

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Visual Interface to Musical Genres, Musicovery

February 1, 2007 Music

Musicovery dubs themselves an “interactive webRadio.” It’s basically a visual representation of musical genres that you can click around and explore. They provide a palette of moods to get you started, Dark to Positive, Calm to Energetic. Start clicking around and let the music wash over you. No registration required, they make their money from [...]

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