iPod nano - Apple announced a line of super thin 2GB and 4GB iPod flash players today. Slick.
More Than Soup live - Video of Starfinger (aka Dr. Kong Balong) performing More Than Soup at Songfight Live! in Boston a few weeks ago. Very awesome.
VSTunnel - a plugin that lets people collaborate over the net using VST plugins inside any sequencer.
I drove by this the other day:
It says "Loving God..." over the exit and "...Loving people." over the entrance. I didn't go inside.
Rubberduck for free - you can now download the legendary Rubberduck TB-303 software for free as well.
iTunes Music Store Top 10 Songs - top 10 charts from all the iTunes stores in the world. Very neat.
ReBirth Museum - Propellerhead software's classic ReBirth program (303/808/909 emulator) is now free.
PayPal introduces micropayments - 5% + 5 cents on transactions under $2. Not sure if it's automatic or if you have to set up your account for it.
Bill Cosby Talks To Kids About Drugs - "People take pills to get high, you see." Waxy's hosting MP3s of this album and it's sensational.
Audio Files GDS Indexer - Plugin to index tons of audio file formats in Google Desktop Search.
Bandnews.org - a slick and very smart aggregator of band news. Great idea.
Magnatune "Big Ideas" - John Buckman has a list of potential new features for Magnatune.
The new revision of ccMixter launched today and it's looking pretty swank. You can see my new page here. Besides the nice new design, I like the addition of the podcast buttons and RSS feeds. I'm now subscribed to the Brad Sucks remix feed, which is way easier for me than sorting through my disgusting mailbox.
One day when I have some time to goof around with it, I'll whip up a Wordpress plugin to import that list of remixes onto my site here.
I've been trying out Pandora. It's a Flash-based music player (first 10 hours are free), you enter an artist or a song that you like and it tries to find similar music for you. The data is based off the Music Genome Project which is described this way:
Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.
Pandora's interesting and while the songs do tend to resemble each other in a superficial sort of way, after an hour of listening I can't say I've found anything I like. It seems "major key tonality, mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation and extensive vamping" doesn't really get to the heart of my musical taste.
And now the source for my song Fixing My Brain (78mb). Only two more to go.
GuitarWiki - the guitar wiki is coming along nicely.
Asian pop culture wiki - a huge amount of information on the Asian pop music scene.
As an update to my previous post (Florida hammered by Katrina and the waves), here are some more Katrina headlines I've spotted:
- Katrina and the killer waves - Sunday Mirror, UK
- Hurricane Katrina Making Waves, Heads West - All Headline News
- KATRINA & THE WAVES - 1010 Wins, NY
- Tropical Storm Katrina Brings the Waves As it Nears Florida - Elites TV, TX
- Katrina and the waves set oil on course for $70 - Investor's Business Daily
- Katrina and its waves spread across southeast Florida - EiTB, Spain
- Crude above $67 as Katrina makes waves - Financial Times, UK
- Tropical Storm Katrina Brings Her Waves Closer to Florida
- Katrina whips up the waves in the Bahamas - Independent Online, South Africa
I'm not even sure why this fascinates me so much. It has this unique natural disaster/one hit wonder/tragedy/walking on sunshine combination that's apparently very attractive to me.
Update: Back on the 24th the Atlanta Journal Constitution ran a story called Tropical storm bears down on Florida that opened with:
South Floridians won't be walking on sunshine when Katrina and her waves crash ashore later this week.
Which is pretty much the motherload.
After getting told many times that Myspace is a great place to promote your music, and in interviews about "the biz" telling people I had heard that Myspace was a great place to promote your music, I'm finally putting my music on Myspace. Here's my dumb page. There are four streamable songs and I have three friends. They are: Tom, everyone's default Myspace friend, Scott Andrew, who is a 100% legit pal, and Robert Schneider from The Apples in Stereo who's promoting his side project Marbles. Check it out!
If you're a Myspace user, I invite you to befriend me.
Tunafish - Bram Bos (the creator of the legendary Hammerhead rhythm software) has released a stripped down VSTi sequencer/rhythm machine.