Tag Archives: music
Valerie and Friends
Year: 2009 Label: Valerie Length: 1:17:27 French electronic group College gained some popularity after the release of the movie Drive. The track A Real Hero, with Electric Youth, was featured during the movie and quickly became part of Drive memes. … Continue reading
Spotify and Rdio embeds on WordPress.com
Automagically by pasting a URL. Doesn’t look like it works on WordPress.org sites yet. Future Jetpack addition? Add Spotify, Rdio, and GitHub’s Gist Embeds To Your Site — Blog — WordPress.com
On Not Putting Spotify Play Buttons On Your Site
Your site should not be a pitch to subscribe to Spotify – which is what a Play Button ultimately encourages. Getting subscribers is Spotify’s problem, not yours. Artists, Please! Don’t put Spotify play buttons on your site
Tunecore’s Jeff Price Doesn’t Like Grooveshark
I actually met with people at Grooveshark a few times. You think politicians don’t provide straight answers? Wait until you talk to these guys. Grooveshark: Trolling The Sea of Artists To Make A Buck? via Digital Music News
THE Bruce Dickinson?
Artistic license. Christopher Walken portrays producer Bruce Dickinson (not to be confused with the Iron Maiden vocalist of the same name). Although Dickinson has produced many songs and albums for many different artists, he was not the actual producer of … Continue reading
Bruce Dickinson Lives On In Figure
The two parameters you can edit for the cowbell in the TR-BOB kit in Propellerhead Software’s Figure are Prescription and Fever. Clever.
Speak Singing
NPR Music’s Robin Hilton on Velvet Underground’s Sweet Jane: When you think of speak singing, you think of this guy. He is it. I think of this guy: The Speak-Singing Debate: Just Sing The Damn Song!
“You’ve never heard Kiss ‘Alive’?”
I love this NPR Music series in which they ask interns to review albums from years ago. The more I listened, the more I was frustrated by Alive! There were times when a catchy riff would command my attention, but … Continue reading
SNL and Synchronization Rights
What you see the next morning may not always be what was broadcast the previous night. What You’re Missing By Watching SNL On Hulu
New Audioscrobbler Beta
Looks kinda cool, like Tweetie for Last.fm, and introduces keyboard shortcuts for loving and banning. I’m not sure the previous version had that. You don’t want this for scrobbling. There’s plenty of decent iTunes controllers that already do that well. … Continue reading