SongMeanings - Site where you can post your interpretations of popular songs and read what others think. (via Metafilter)
GuitarBike - motorcycle shaped like an electric guitar. And don't forget about AcoustiCar! (via Look At This...)
CC Mixter is a site for material under Creative Commons sampling licenses. It allows artists to post their samples for collaboration and use in remixes/mash-ups. They've got some samples on there from the Creative Commons licensed songs included in Wired Magazine's November 2004 issue. I uploaded a highly compressed version of the sample set for Making Me Nervous and I'll probably do more when I get some time.
Nanoloop - a step sequencer and synthesis package for the Gameboy Advance.
What that circus clown music is called - I always wondered this. Also, best transcription ever: "doot-doot-doodle-oodle oot doot do do".
Still Hungry - Twisted Sister has re-recorded Stay Hungry, the first album I ever bought on my own.
Jesusonic CrusFX 1000 - a pretty awesome looking and sounding programmable effects processor by Justin Frankel, the creator of Winamp. (via Music Thing)
When Entourages Attack - The Slate guide to managing your posse. Funny article on entourages. (via /usr/bin/girl)
The Brad Sucks Bad Attraction Remixfight is now online. Head on over there and vote. (Review thread is here.)
Turns out that Mike Essl, one of the guys on the VH1 Totally Obsessed Mr. T episode that my song was licensed for use in, has posted the segment on his weblog. My song kicks in as soon as he ralphs and I'm pretty sure this makes us share some sort of deep VH1 party bond. Funny segment, glad to be a part of it.
It is my birthday today. I am old now. In other news, I bought a new sound card last week (M-Audio Delta 66) which will hopefully kick my recording setup into action again. I started reorganizing everything over two months ago and got sidetracked and have been kinda stuck. Hopefully that's behind me now, like so many years of my life.
Here are some podcasts that wrote to let me know they're going to play my stuff: Hardcore Insomnia Radio, Game on the Street, and I should be in the Indiefeed Alternative/Modern Rock channel sometime soon. You are all awesome and I salute you.
Update: Also being played on Michele's Freeminding. Cool stuff.
The Brad Sucks Bad Attraction Remixfight! deadline is November 15th, which is just around the corner. You still have a couple days to get your entry in if you hustle. I'm told there's gonna be a pretty good turn-out, which is super cool. And here are some new mixes:
- Look And Feel Years Younger (MC Jack in the Box mix)
- Bad Attraction (Colvig's Guitar Madness mix)
- Look And Feel Years Younger (Colvig's Space Girl mix)
Thanks!
Chordbook - one of the best online guitar chord finders I've seen (except that it doesn't do left handed guitars). (via Bifurcated Rivets)
Hey awesome, my track Dirtbag was played on Adam Curry's Daily Source Code podcast for November 10th and Adam himself said some nice stuff about me. That's pretty kick ass and hello to anyone coming in from there. (Check out my album, all the mp3s are there!) He also mentioned that I'm being played on some other Podcasts as well (Dave Slusher and Promiscuous Bullet), which is hella cool and I've been getting some email from other Podcasters. If you're playing my stuff on your Podcast feel free to drop a line and I'll try to throw a link out to you or something.
The Beta MSN Search Engine is online now. I'm probably biased due to getting flown to Seattle to see and mouth off about it before it was released, but I think it's extremely competitive with Google. An interesting (and a bit controversial inside the group) aspect is that when you search for musical artists an ad for the artist on MSN Music comes up and it lets you stream clips from the most popular songs right from there.
Homemade Percussion & Junkmusic - instructions on making your own percussion instruments and some samples. (via J-Walk)
Scott Andrew's Touring - My folk-rocking buddy Scott is touring the west coast. Go check him out and say hi for me.
CableCuffs: My new best friends! - handy cable clips I've never seen before. I'm going to buy so many of these.
Musical Prototypes 2 - awesome photoshopped musical prototypes. (via J-Walk)
Billboard 2004 Digital Entertainment Conference & Awards - I'm suspicious of any awards show where Real Networks wins anything. (via Coolfer)