Kill Rock Stars released a new video for Deerhoof’s This is God Speaking, done completely in flash animation by Akiko Carver. Ryan Catbird of MBV puts it best: “A short, unusual video for a short, unusual song.”
Read the director’s comments and watch the video after the: Continue reading...
At the 2009 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Taiwan, UC San Diego electrical engineering Ph.D. student Luke Barrington presented a new model for music analysis (pdf) that can capture both the sound of a song and how it changes over time. The system is being used for a new search engine, dubbed Google for Music, and users would search for descriptive words, like “mellow jazz”, instead of song titles, album names or artist names. Read more...
ReverbNation announced today that 1000 of its 400,000 artist members will be able to participate in a new revenue generating Sponsored Songs program, reports Hypebot. The program will pay participating musicians $0.50 per free download. In essence, they will be paying musicians to release their music for free.
ReverbNation’s plan is to embed small advertisements within the digital cover art that is displayed every time a given song is played, and thus, spread ads virally, like the music itself, over file sharing platforms and social networks. Continue reading...
Sony is jumping into the online music distribution market, as sources told CNET that Sony is attempting to deal with other major recording companies to provide music downloads through the PlayStation Network.
This comes after Sir Howard Stringer, Sony Chairman, President and CEO, said that the company can compete with iTunes by providing “something that Apple can’t” and will “grab that opportunity before Apple begins to provide support for other hardware and blocks [Sony] out.” Digital music served on the Playstation Network seems to be the answer. Read more...
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