Back in June, checking out some TechCrunch Pitches, I had spotted this elevator pitch for a booking service called MPtrax.com that aroused my curiosity, and just today I was browsing through this interesting post on Music Think Tank, discussing web-based fan-funding platforms for gigging bands, and I fell across a tiny link that lead me [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Mptrax.com: a marketplace for entertainers and event organizers
Posted in Booking & Promotion, tagged bands, booking gigs, booking service, critical mass, elevator pitch, entertainer, event organizers, house concerts, mptrax, promoters, techcrunch pitches on January 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
About Gigdoggy
Posted in About Gigdoggy, tagged about, About Gigdoggy, bands, blog, event organizers, gigbloggy, gigdoggy blog, gigging, greg whiteside, logistics, music, music discovery, robin charmant, wordl on January 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Because I am feeling lazy, and essentially because we kind of re-designed our about-page with pictures and little descriptions of ourselves, we decided to present to you this new about-page as today’s post. This is maybe not the most interesting post in our Gigdoggy blog, but at least it enlightens you on who’s responsible for [...]
Attitude and honesty in the world of music stardom
Posted in Band Talk, Industry Talk on January 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Why don’t North Americans appreciate rock and roll stars with attitude?
The Brits stuff more of it into one pop star then you will find in the entire Grammys’ audience. By “attitude”, I mean the proper combination of honesty and arrogance that is becoming increasingly rare to find. Continually, I watch interviews with my [...]
New era for music promotion?
Posted in Industry Talk, Music 2.0/Networking, Recording/Mixing/Tech, tagged bands, music, music think tank, promotion, last.fm, finetune, music search engines, entrepreneur, audiomap, tuneglue, music discovery, project, bruce warila, technology, searching music, scoring music, faders, just music, vision, the pull music paradigm shift, pandora, push promotion on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bruce Warila, the renowned music/technologist entrepreneur, has revealed his new project on Music Think Tank yesterday – He is working on a new form of music recommendation system that relies on what we could call MSO’s (music search optimization) techniques executed via MEI’s (music experience interfaces), like the one you see in the video bellow:
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Have pop-song structures reached their limits?
Posted in Band Talk, Industry Talk, tagged bassist wanted, chord structure, chorus, harmonies, intro, melodies, musicologist, pop music, pop trends, porter mason, progressions, song, song structure, the beatles, verse on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s one of Porter Mason’s strips from his ‘Bassist Wanted‘ blog I find amusing and interesting.
The Beatles aren’t the only ones responsible for defining that ‘fundamental structure of pop music’, but they sure opened up many doors. ‘Will popular music ever be structured in a completely different way than intro/verse/chorus?’ is a question I often [...]
Microsoft’s Songsmith ain’t so bad after all
Posted in Recording/Mixing/Tech, tagged andrew dubber, audio, audio host, celemony beamz, creative, direct note access, melodyne, microsoft, music, producer, scoble, sequencer, smurf, songsmith, sqworl, tweak, virtual instruments, vst, youtube on January 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m am currently viewing Robert Scoble’s video of the two Microsoft Engineers who act in the Songsmith Commercial. Now for those of you who somehow missed this video, behold the wonders of Microsoft’s ad campaigns (who actually used a Mac covered with stickers. Go figure).
Ok, it looks bad, really bad, as [...]
One album – One story : “Santogold” by “Santogold”
Posted in One Story - One Album, tagged 80s pop, album review, best single, dance music, fela kuti, l.e.s artistes, m.i.a, music, one album, one story, pixies, pop songs, pop trends, rolling stone, Santogold on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[There's often more behind the discovery of an album than just the music. Here's S. Ziggy Zagami's review of Santogold's eponym album 'Santogold'. If you would like to share your One album - One story, we'd love to post it.]
Review by By S. Ziggy Zagami.
I hear her while I am at the movies, while I [...]
