gods & monsters on saturday
Heading over to the 33 gallery this Saturday to check out another MPLS Deth Crew event.. there’s a theme to this one – favorite horror films (monsters) and some of the genre’s greats, including Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, and Alfred Hitchcock (gods).. Where: 33 Design Gallery When : Saturday 12/12 @ 7:00pm Plus: To Kill a Petty
xo Nov 20.09
audio a look at the sad but true Music Industry FAILs – 4 Musical Mistakes Of The Decade .. good article on Transformative v Incremental Change – a look at why big music just doesn’t get the internet revolution.. the story behind the UK ‘draconian pro-copyright plans’ of the leaked Digital Economy Bill (similar to
Apple (Finally) Approves First DJ App
It’s been a long uphill battle for music app developers, with Apple leaving music apps in approval purgatory for loooong periods of time (with no official explanation) – a situation which sparked many music / tech blog posts and eventually led to a dj app petition. Well.. who knows what finally prompted Apple to give
Creative Control. November 27th.
Creative Control. November 27th.
Last Call @ The Uptown Bar
The Uptown Bar was demolished today. I started sneaking into the Uptown when I was 15 to see the bands i loved play insane sets so close their sweat was dropping on you… it was the first (and last) bar i ever got carried out of, the first (and last) place I started a fist fight,
Open for Mew
Danish alternative rock / experimental dream pop band MEW are holding contests to fill their opening slot at gigs in these cities : Boston, Philly, New York ,Chicago, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Pretty cool.. just go to the contest site, select your city & enter your band name / # of members /
xo Nov 13.09
- AUDIO – Wired noted that the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 could bring another round of tumult to the music and publishing industries, due to “provisions that allow authors or their heirs to terminate copyright grants — or at the very least renegotiate much sweeter deals by threatening to do so”.. Creative Deconstruction posted a
Auto Tune :)
Auto Tune it the audio editing software that makes vocals sound robotic – you’ve heard it – yeah, it’s awesome. Watching this video (hilarious) convinced me to go to iTunes and grab the “I Am T-Pain” auto tune iphone app which makes me a huge dork but is also fun as hell. thx to @SteveTalkowski for
Listen: Them Crooked Vultures Album
Them Crooked Vultures – Josh Homme (QOTSA), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) – have their much anticipated first release available for pre-order now (hits iTunes in the US on November 17th). In the meantime, they’ve released all 13 tracks on YouTube.. so you can listen to it right now
xo Nov 06.09
- AUDIO – Jack White’s Third Man Records to going to release “A Glorious Dawn” on Vinyl – if you’ve never seen the video, this is one of my all-time favorite things in the world Explore Music posted 3 articles (and now a follow up) on 11 Ways the Internet Has Ruined Music – all of