Posted in Band Talk, tagged blog, comic strips, donak rv, flickr, struggling muso on December 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For this pre-Xmas post let me introduce to you Donak and his bitter-sweet comic strips. I came across his blog not long ago and asked if I could post some of his work. Great stuff!
Donak’s blog: strugglingmuso.wordpress.com
Donak’s Flickr profile (where he displays all of his strips): flickr.com/photos/donakrv
Donak’s MySpace: www.myspace.com/donakrv
The Inner-Clapton:
Rock Interview:
bark.
Posted in Music 2.0/Networking, tagged artist, beta, invite only, just hear it, justhearit, music search, music search engines, playlist, private beta, radioblogclub on December 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Checking out this new music search engine called Just Hear It and it’s looking great! I’m happy cause so many of these sites are seeing the light of day these past months and most of them just don’t cut it. Simplicity and soberness are the words of the day and Just Hear It couldn’t be [...]
Posted in Industry Talk, tagged band perception, bands, bowie, fans, great bands, grunge, image, janis joplin, jeff tweedy, led zepplin, liam gallagher, madonna, music and image, music business, new era, rock, singing, the beatles on December 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Every great band needs a great image.
Saying that, I can already hear the purists with their music-snob radars hurling insults in my general direction. No worries, one day their fog of denial will lift and they will understand that the reason Wilco never got the mass acclaim they deserve is that Jeff Tweedy is [...]
Posted in Music 2.0/Networking, tagged daito manabe, dj, input devices, inputs, japanese, massage, media artist, music massaging, output devices, outputs on December 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Some thought this video to be a hoax, a perfect facial choreography moving to the sounds of playbacked music. Many thought it was his face triggering the music. Well it’s not.
The artists behind the electrodes is no other than Daito Manabe, a Japanese music experimentor, DJ and overall media genius who [...]
Posted in Music 2.0/Networking, Recording/Mixing/Tech, tagged busker du, buskers, busking, CD sales, gigdoggy, mta phone, public performance on December 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We here at Gigdoggy like buskers and their love for the most primitive form of musical public performance. We had already written two posts on the matter with How busking can be used as a promotional stunt for your shows and Why busking could be a good option to get your band some gigs, new [...]
Posted in Recording/Mixing/Tech, tagged audiophile, conept, converters, dual music player, gadgets, product, xylophone blinds, yanko design on December 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you like gadgets, there’s a chance you’ll be interested in knowing an object such as this exists:
An mp3 player that can also play CDs. Converters must be pretty crappy, but who cares? It’s a cool gadget.
Quality of product is hardly a gadget’s main feature, but engineering and design are. That sort of comprise is [...]
Posted in Music 2.0/Networking, tagged bands, music, indie, street team, derek sivers, cdbaby, muckwork, mtuk, offline duties, assistants, team on December 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Derek Sivers, founder of CDBaby, is working on a new web based project called MuckWork. After having envisioned the first online portal allowing indie bands to distribute their CDs, his next concept is to create a workforce for bands to take a load off all the little uncreative tasks they need to deal with as [...]
Riseandshine.tv’s daily songwriter / audience music collaboration
Posted in Music 2.0/Networking, tagged music, sellaband, song, twitter, ben walker, ihatemorning, rise and shine radio, riseandshine.tv, twitter song, songwriter, xmas, christmas, mastering media blog, comments, magma lady, musical brainstorm, xmas special on December 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Rise and Shine is an internet radio station that has come up with a remarquable concept – hosting a weekly Xmas festival where every morning a songwriter is assisted by hundreds of viewers (via the Mogulus player interface) to compose a track in three hours.
A live show, in which songwriters face the daily challenge of [...]
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