Petri Purho’s entry for the Experimental Gameplay Project, called Post I.T. Shooter, is made out of post-it notes (!), and ends up leading to a vast archive of weird electronic music.
The music featured is The Love God by Martinibomb, which you stream and download for free at Comfort Stand Recordings. The label shut down in 2006, but their entire catalog is available for anyone to download and remix under a Commons License. Watch a gameplay video after the cut: Continue reading...
The New York Philharmonic will give free concerts from July 14 to July 17 for this year’s Concerts in the Parks. Two of the shows will be on Central Park’s Great Lawn. The concerts begin at 8pm, and the orchestra will perform selected pieces from Mozart, Beethoven, Copeland and Mahler.
Alan Gilbert was appointed music director of the New York Philharmonic in 2007, and will officially replace Lorin Maazel in September. Gilbert isn’t new to the Philharmonic; both of his parents are Philharmonic violinists, and he has been guest conductor many times over the past decade. Check out the week’s full schedule: Read more...
Indaba allows musicians to produce music cooperatively, online, with production software that uses “cloud computing” to lower the processing power needed on pc hardware. The basic account is free, and the service has updated to let musicians record high-quality audio directly to their servers and apply effects in real-time. Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo endorses the software:
“It’s like a simplified version of any of these complex professional recording programs that no one like me knows how to use. It’s going to open the door for a giant population of musicians out there.”
Watch a preview of the Indaba music console: Read more...
Jack White’s newest band, The Dead Weather, released its debut album Horehound today, and you can listen to the entire album for free right now on iLike.com. The album was supposed to be available for only 24 hours yesterday (June 12), but the songs are still there, so enjoy!
Besides Jack White, The Dead Weather is Alison Mosshart of The Kills, guitarist Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age and bassist Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes. Watch the music video for the album’s fifth track, Treat Me Like Your Mother: Continue reading...
Last year, Rufus Wainwright took a break from pop music, and started writing for the stage. Prima Donna, Wainwright’s first opera, opened last weekend (July 10) at the Manchester International Festival to “mixed” reviews.
Wainwright dressed up like the 19th century Italian composer Verdi, complete with the characteristic beard, top-hat and cane, and though he received much applause at the debut, some of the critics’ initial responses imply that 35 year-old Wainwright doesn’t yet compare with centuries-old opera classics. See some of the reactions below: Read more...
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Chris Cornell talked about his future plans for Soundgarden. He denied that the band would be touring or recording a new album anytime soon, even though he says a reunion is “not impossible.” For the time being, Cornell is much more interested in releasing less-known Soundgarden tracks:
For the band to reunite, he says that it’s going to take someone’s initiative: Read more...“The only thing that we have talked about is trying to put together an album of B sides and maybe a box set with some unreleased tracks we have. This is something we first talked about 10 years ago. (…) I think the catalog and the legacy of the band has been ignored by the record label and previous management, so we decided to get together, and start working towards putting something like that out.”
Michael Jackson’s estate includes the rights to 267 Beatles songs, and there has been some speculation as to who will get the ownership of the tracks. Paul McCartney denied rumors that he was given ownership of the songs, or that he was “devastated” when he didn’t receive them. From McCartney’s Official website:
Read the rest of his comments: Read more...“Some time ago, the media came up with the idea that Michael Jackson was going to leave his share in the Beatles songs to me in his will which was completely made up and something I didn’t believe for a second.”
The full list of eighty-five bands to be featured in the fifth installment of Guitar Hero, due Sep 1, is available at the Official Guitar Hero 5 website, and Neversoft has started to disclose some of the specific tracks that will appear in the game.
Guitar Hero 5 will include classics like Deep Purple, Bob Dylan and Santana, as well as some heavier rock such as Iggy Pop, The Bronx, Darkest Hour and Children of Bodom. Check out the 24 revealed tracks: Continue reading...
Together with the launch of Ambivalence Avenue, the newest LP release by Bibio on Warp Records, comes Bibio’s Ambivalence Forest, a place to listen to most of the album for free while planting virtual trees and viewing other people’s creations.
Bibio produced a mix of folk music with a sensible dose of electronica in his latest effort. The slow, uncomplicated rhythms he applies to more complex melodies make the album easy to listen to, while retaining enough depth in the composition for all types of listeners. Watch a video of Lou Liddiard-Smith’s interview with Bibio about the new album: Continue reading...
Yesterday, Pandora founder Tim Westergren proclaimed on the Pandora Radio Blog that the service has stabilized its finances, and credited a recent agreement between artists, labels and webcasters to revise the US Copyright Royalty Board’s prices for online music streaming, ruled in 2007. On the downside, Pandora will no longer be free:
What kind of adjustment? Westergren explains: Continue reading...“The revised royalties are quite high – higher in fact than any other form of radio. As a consequence, we will have to make an adjustment that will affect about 10% of our users who are our heaviest listeners. Specifically, we are going to begin limiting listening to 40 hours per month on the free version of Pandora.”
In February, Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor announced on the Nine Inch Nails official site that after a tour with Jane’s Addiction across the globe during 2009, the band would then go on hiatus indefinitely. He also said at Bonnaroo, during the NIN set, that it would be the band’s “last show ever in the United States”
Now Trent is backpedaling. On Tuesday he posted on the NIN Blog that the band will play a final “handful of shows” in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles beginning August 22. From the post:
Read more..“Upon reflection, the NIN/JA tour felt like we had to rush through sets due to a limited allotted set length and many shows were in daylight – it just didn’t feel right to end NIN that way.”
The “Eristoff Internative Festival” is the first music festival on the Internet. It will be broadcast exclusively online, and the first concert is July 7 at 2pm PST. More concerts are scheduled for every full moon. To watch the first edition, which features the Barcelona-based indie pop rock band Love Of Lesbian, go to eristoffinternativefestival.com.
The act will be streamed in high definition video, and fans will be able to interact with the band in real-time. Similarly, online video service Hulu live-streamed a Dave Matthews concert in May. Read more...
The music video for Hibi no Neiro (translation: Tone of Everyday) by Japan based alt-rock band Sour from their ‘Water Flavor EP’ uses fans as actors. Basically, people from around the world filmed themselves on webcam, and Sour mashed up the footage to produce a “crowdsourced” music video.
The “mini album” was released last month, and it’s their fourth official release. The three piece band is set to play at Tokyo’s Neutral Nation 09 festival on July 12. Check out the new music video after the jump: Read more...
The combined efforts of Radiohead manager Brian Message, his company ATC, and management groups MAMA and Nettwerk Music have resulted in the new digital label, Polyphonic, which will allow artists to retain ownership of their music.
Adam Driscoll, the co-chief executive of MAMA Group, told the Telegraph: “We will do whatever is most effective to get an artist noticed. Giving an album away for free may get one million people listening to a new artist.” Read more...
In a digital age where album sales no longer accurately represent a band’s success, it has become increasingly important for bands and labels to be able to measure popularity on the Internet, on sites like Myspace, Last.fm, YouTube, SoundCloud and Facebook. Music data site Band Metrics is looking to offer such a service, and opened up the private beta today for several thousand artists to test its system, reports Hypebot.
Band Metrics not only gauges song plays, profile views and comments across various platforms, but also tracks airplay on over 3,500 radio stations, and scores your music 8 different ways. For example, your band has a “fandom” rating and “brand strength”. The company is also launching a standard format for sending and receiving data from the site, so it’s easy for users to share band data between each other. Check out some of the more interesting forthcoming features in development: Continue reading...
Ohio-based band BJSR has a new music video for the track “Play”, which was recorded from start to finish with new video-capable iPhone 3GS by local company Showdown Productions. Kyle Brock, of Showdown Productions, told Wired:
“The song was written by Ben Rivet, the main character of the video. [Rivet] was purchasing a new iPhone and came up with the idea to promote his music. We wanted to test the limits of the iPhone video, and show off what it was capable of.”
Watch the music video after the cut: Continue reading...
Music magazine Vibe announced that all print operations would be shut down on June 30. But not all is lost, according to magazine founder (and Michael Jackson’s producer) Quincy Jones, who told Ebonyjet:
“I’m trying to buy my magazine back now. They just messed my magazine all up, but I’m gonna get it back. You better believe it, I’ma take it online because print and all that stuff is over.”
After recovering from the death of Michael Jackson, Jones’ ambitions for Vibe will be focused online. Reportedly, Vibe.com is profitable, while the print edition has years of accumulated debt. Continue reading...
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