Went on BoingBoing today to fetch my daily dose of wackiness and found this:
This is part of an art work called “Isolation” by encaustic painter Robin Rose of Electro-Harmonix pedals. I just put in the word “encaustic” to seem like I know stuff, but I obviously looked it up. Encaustic painting deals with hot-wax manipulation [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Guitar rig art and an ode to Electro-Harmonix
Posted in Recording/Mixing/Tech, tagged ascendant, boing boign, boingboing, brian eno, cypher, electro harmonix, encautic painting, guitar rig, isolation, pedal, robin rose on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
How to lose money at a gig: a recap on the Gigdoggy Showcase!
Posted in About Gigdoggy, Band Revenue, Booking & Promotion, tagged artistdata, bands, craigslist, facebook event, gig, gig flyer, gigdoggy, gigdoggy showcase, merchandise, press release, recession, t-shirts, technical rider, tickets on April 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Ok so as some of you may know, we hosted our first Gigdoggy Showcase on Saturday 18th at the Club Lambi in Montreal. I am now going to take the opportunity to do a little recap on the event, how we organized and how it played out.
The context of our Showcase
Before launching our Fanteraction™ [...]
Breakfast at Sulimays new episodes out
Posted in Music Talk, tagged breakfast at sulimay's, music reviews, woodshop films on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ever heard of Breakfast at Sulimay’s? If not, check out our post on the music review series conducted by three elderlies in a diner in Phily. Since March I hadn’t seen any new episodes – was scared one of our beloved reviewers passed away or something. Hopefully they’re back with two new episodes.
Enjoy!
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One album – One story: “Antics” & “Our Love To Admire” by Interpol
Posted in One Story - One Album, tagged antics, heaven, interpol, mars volta, music, narc, our love to admire, paul banks, peaches, the heinrich maneuver, triple j, turn on the bright lights on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You should have already heard of Interpol, a four piece band from the indie New York Scene, who came to prominence in 2002 with their debut album “Turn On The Bright Lights”. That’s right, Interpol the band, not INTERPOL the ‘cloak and dagger’ government agency. Call them mod rockers, call them brit pop, call them [...]
Some reasons why the record industry is unhealthy nowadays
Posted in Industry Talk, tagged dick dale, facebook page, myspace profile, record industry, without a clip, youtube channel, zappa on April 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Found this mash-up video of a few famous musicians giving their point of view on the record industry’s rotten mechanisms. At the risk of presenting some re-hashed content, I always find these interviews refreshing.
I know we already posted that Zappa clip a couple of times, and the Dick Dale one too, [...]
The Key To Music part 3: the keys to the 70’s pop era
Posted in the key to music, tagged 70's music, 70's pop, billboad charts, billboard hits, i wish, major key, minor key, music industry, robert fontana, stevie wonder, the key to music on April 24, 2009 | 9 Comments »
["The Key To Music" is a research project lead by Robert Fontana on the musical formulas that have made up the industry’s pop trends throughout these past decades.]
Introductory post
Part one on the keys of the 50’s
Part two on the keys of the 60’s
I’ve decided to take a photo to demonstrate exactly how I determine the [...]
About the Gigdoggy Showcase (part 1)
Posted in About Gigdoggy, tagged fanteraction, gigdoggy, gigdoggy blog, gigdoggy showcase, montreal, the gigdoggies on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hey doggy readers!
As some of you may know, we organized the Gigdoggy Showcase last Saturday in Montréal with six bands on the bill to test-drive our fanteraction™ service. The event was a total blast and everything went well. This was the first time we put up such a show and learned a lot in the [...]
About Gigdoggy’s Fanteraction™ service (CBC interview)
Posted in About Gigdoggy, tagged band-fan interaction, beta launch, cbc, cbc reporter, club lambi, fanteraction, gig, gigdoggy, gigdoggy showcase, greg whiteside, interaction, showcase, test-driving on April 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Greg got interviewed this morning right in front of Club Lambi (where we will be hosting our Gigdoggy Showcase tomorrow) by a CBC reporter about our new Fanteraction™ service (I was there too but just couldn’t stop barking my joyful feelings, so they decided to attach me to a post a couple of yards back). [...]
YouTube Symphony Orchestra @ Carnegie Hall – Act One
Posted in Music 2.0/Networking, tagged Eroica, internet symphony, musicians, tan dun, youtube symphony orchestra on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the Youtube Symphony Orchestra, the first ever online collaborative orchestra, performing at Carnegie Hall on April 15th 2009. The orchestra was composed of 96 professional and amateur musicians from 30+ countries and territories on six continents and represented 26 different instruments. The orchestra played movements and excerpts from 15 wildly diverse works for over [...]
