Root Music's nicely laid out Facebook pages recently trimmed down and adjusted automatically to the new slimmer Facebook giudelines. That wasn't their only big change they have also announced YouTube Tracks. this allows musicians to upload songs and video tracks from YouTube to the same player as their SoundCloud music and collect performance royalties from their song plays.
In esscence, many DAW's are the same and if you can make your way around one, you can usually do most things in another. However, automation is usually a different story. Logic's automation is a bit tricky at first, but once you begin to uncover the basics, you'll see a whole new world of opportunity (even if you aren't playing Dubstep).
What we are reading on the Internet that may be of interest to you or potentially melt your brain with its stupidity.
- Coldplay's Chris Martin unveils new song at Apple Ping thing
- Paste Magazine says goodbye to its print version
- Give a brother a break: T.I. arrested on drug charges
- Hear Richard Swift and Damien Jurado's cover album
- P Diddy sued by former employer for age discrimination
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Yesterday when Apple announced their new iTunes powered social network, Ping, the music pundits started crying hyperbole of MySpace killer etc. While this new site does have tons of potential to be a great tool to encourage record sales and concert ticket sales, right now it in unfortunately not much more than a way to promote the top artists on iTunes and make the rich richer. With no clear way for DIY artists to sign up, under 20 Featured artists plucked from the major labels usual suspects and a partnership for concert tickets with the disgusting corporate entity Live Nation, right now Ping strictly offers a way for your friends to hear how much you love U2 or Lady GaGa. Don't get too excited Apple still needs to open the doors if they want this to be more than Friendster.
If you know anything about rock, you know that NME is one of the biggest tastemakers and a magazine that has discovered tons of bands that are now legends. They have now developed their own social network where fans and musicians sign up and you get the chance to be discovered by NME's writers. NME Breakthrough is that social network and you can go there and hope that fans and writers will discover your unknown gems.
What we are reading on the Internet that may be of interest to you or potentially melt your brain with its stupidity.
- Yoko overseeing Lennon back catalog re-release - details emerge
- Green Day recording another live album
- American Idol rejects sues for a cool 100M
- Goldfrapp launch pinball game/remix tool iPhone app!
- Pop Off: What's lost when a recording sounds too perfect?
- Ozzy's son Jack directs his latest "happier" music video
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We've been fairly impressed with the quality and affordability of recent Vox products, and although they are certainly quite a bit more expensive than the regular line (around $1600 for the AC30), the Vox handwired series look phenomenal. With handwired precision and a look this clean, we're very excited to hear how they sound and will certainly keep you posted.
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- Introducing Recording Session Metatags
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- Korg M1 Keyboard Workstation, Reborn on Nintendo DS
- Ready-to-Play, Tuned Beer Bottles, and Other Design Experiments with Sound
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- Tonehammer releases Requiem Pro and Requiem Light
- Brainworx bx_shredspread now available
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What we are reading on the Internet that may be of interest to you or potentially melt your brain with its stupidity.
- Weirdo Duo: Lady Gaga to perform with Yoko at upcoming show
- Punk Perfume: Sex Pistols to get their own fragrance (SRLSY!)
- Flaming Lips to play Soft Bulletin in it's entirety at upcoming gig
- Dylan's new 'Bootleg' to feature unearthed live show
- Radiohead and fans team up for live film (NIN style)
KCRW is one of the last free form radio stations in America and one of the most influential radio stations around. The LA Times recently interviewed their librarian on how you may possibly get your music on to these airwaves which can then get you through many other doors. The interview sheds some light on some the great secrets in making your radio promotions work.
Are you one of the 20 million people who have heard "The Bed Intruder Song"? If not click on the above video and provided you are not an uptight nerd you are about to hear one of the funniest memes of the year. What is even funnier is this YouTube phenomenon has now charted on the Billboard Hot 100, but the ideas and tactics they used there are quite serious and smart. Follow me to the jump and we will dissect what got them there.
We always hold Jango high up as a promotion every artist should be taking part in. Following Grooveshark's lead Jango will now give you play credits if you get other artists to sign up for their service. Pretty cool. To learn how to do this check out their blog.
What we are reading on the Internet that may be of interest to you or potentially melt your brain with its stupidity.
- Lady Gaga busts out new "Radio" song at recent show
- Caribou prepare new double live album
- Axl gets all whiny about GNR on Twitter
- Brandon Flowers recruits Jenny Lewis for new album
- Margaret Cho gets "serious" on new album
UK resident Calum Scott shows off his Wiimote Looper with a patch written for the Nunchuck and Nintendo Wiimote. Functions include: loop select, record/stop/clear, playback speed, delay on/off, delay hold, delay feedback, delay mix, loop start/stop/speed, loop freeze.
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What we are reading on the Internet that may be of interest to you or potentially melt your brain with its stupidity.
- Klaxxons threaten to take their album cover cat to NME awards
- Check out Matt and Kim's (naturally bouncy) new single
- See The Walkmen cover REM's "Driver 8"
- Dylan/Sam Shepard play adapted into film
- Drake and Nicki Minaj marriage annulled on Twitter
- Beatle throne: John Lennon toilet seat sells for thousands
While not an exact replica, the XILS3 soft synth by XILS Lab it's a pretty close replication of the EMS VCS 3 originally produced back in 1969. Regardless of how close it is based on the EMS VCS 3, the XILS3 has some pretty amazing tones that are all it's own. Currently there is a light version which costs under $40 and then a deluxe version which is quite expensive at around $140. Unfortunately, all versions will require the iLok (until someone cracks it!) More info available at the XILS Lab site.
A bunch of music blogs have teamed with MOG and Scion to offer a huge battle of the bands thing where they are looking for some of the best unsigned bands in the country. If you think you are the best unsigned band around you should watch the above video and then email Rock It Out blog.
Those progressive Canadians in The Arcade Fire seem to be at the forefront of music marketing these days, and it looks like they have done it again with this amazing interactive film made by Chris Milk. Using the capabilities of HTML5, Milk has created an incredible movie that is accompanied by the Arcade Fire's new song "Used To Wait". Without giving too much away, we'll say that Milk's video makes the band's somewhat predictable song seem all the more resonant by carefully playing on the band's usual themes of childhood and family. Note that the film is best viewed in Google's Chrome browser and has "issues" in Firefox (we know, we tried). The film is called The Wilderness Down and can be found here. Truly a wonderful piece of work and a very exciting peek into what the future might hold with HTML5. Scarily enough this even happens to the smallest of groups from time to time. Some freak of nature will take your music and claim it as their own on some random MySpace. As well these days you can profit share in YouTube streams and it is important that your songs are on your channel if you want to get paid for them. Artist House Music has a fantastic blog on how to handle this situation that is a great read.
Everyone is chattering about new ways to get your fans motivated to help you to pay for your musical endeavors. Since everyone is discussing it CD Baby's always awesome DIY Musicians Podcast took up the subject for the past two episodes. You should download both of these episodes and learn how this concept can fund your music.
If you're hangover didn't already tell you, it's Monday and once again we're taking a break from content for the day to work on the Musformation book. Damn, you must be saying, you guys are taking a long time, this book better be good. Truth be told, we are very excited about the content of the book and have many new exciting insights, interviews and more we can't wait to share with you. Thanks for checking in and we'll see you back here on Tuesday.
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