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Interview: The 'First Massively Multi-User Online Music Festival'
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on May 04, 2008
Music festival season is already well underway, bringing pleasure and pain to music fans who get to see lots of great music in a single weekend but must suffer for that privilege through nightmare parking scenarios, muddy tents, blistering heat and/or overpriced refreshments. Utherverse CEO Brian Shuster, CEO plans to throw an online music festival in conjunction with Vancouver's New Music...
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Warner Music Group Plays with the Price of Music
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on May 05, 2008
For the past five years, record labels have been playing the game Steve Jobs' way, offering their songs digitally for 99 cents or so across a wide variety of online music stores. Jobs prefers the simplicity of the 99 cent pricing structure, but some labels would rather price songs on a sliding scale depending on its popularity and other factors.Warner Music Group plans to run a test starting...
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Major Labels Release Long Tail Music on Amazon
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on May 05, 2008
Sony/BMG and EMI plan to release out-of-print albums on CD through CreateSpace, Amazon's service for creating products as customers order them -- sort of like CafePress for CDs, books and DVDs."Through our partnerships with SONY/BMG and EMI music, Amazon customers have an even greater selection of music to choose from today," said Amazon's VP of music and movies, Peter Faricy....
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How To Filter YouTube with a Last.fm Account
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on May 06, 2008
Using its audioscrobbler plug-in, Last.fm can monitor the music you play in iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media player or other applications and add it to your profile. As it turns out, Last.fm profiles make for effective YouTube filters, as we pointed out in earlier coverage of Lasttv.That site is broken now, apparently due to some sort of change in either Last.fm or YouTube, but luckily, another...
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Pepsi and DeepRockDrive Plan Interactive Online Music Festival
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on May 06, 2008
On the Internet, nobody can hear you shout "Free Bird!"But the bands performing in a Pepsi-sponsored online concert series that kicks off May 16 will get the message anyway. They will hardly be able not to, surrounded by 40 big-screen monitors that display everything anybody in the audience says -- and, to an extent, how they feel.DeepRockLive eliminates the concept of seat rows, giving all...
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Radiohead Extends Remix Voting as Entrants Bellyache
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on May 06, 2008
No good deed goes unpunished. After letting fans pay whatever they wanted for In Rainbows and releasing stem tracks via iTunes so that one of the songs on the record could be remixed, Radiohead is facing accusations that its "Nude" remix contest is unfair.Voting in the remix contest has been extended to June 1, possibly in order to give late entrants a chance to make it into the top 10.The...
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Even Luddites Will Enjoy Recording with TapeDeck
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on May 08, 2008
If you've ever used an old school-style tape deck with the tilty buttons on the front, you'll be able to use TapeDeck to record your voice or anything else. The resulting "tapes" can be sent to your iPod or Apple TV via iTunes, or family and friends via email.All the familiar stuff is there -- the clicks, whirrs and pops of a real cassette deck recorder. They even threw in that sped-up...
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via Wired: Listening Post by Scott Thill on May 08, 2008
Wendy Morgan shot the new Gnarls Barkley video for "Going On" in Jamaica, but geography is just what the characters in the video are trying to escape. And they do, right through a door they carry around town, which also happens to function as a portal in time and space. It's a nice indie video, uploaded today by the band, with many precedents in sci-fi. The Matrix Reloaded is stocked with...
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Vinyl Cutter Etches Music Grooves onto Unwanted CDs
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on May 08, 2008
Aleks Kolkowski has discovered a new use for old CDs: repurposing them into vinyl-style records that can be played on any record player. Attendees of the Manchester Futuresonic 2008 Festival were invited to bring their unwanted CDs and DVDs to his display at the event to have music physically etched onto them by Kolkowski's vintage vinyl cutter. Even better, he apparently let people bring...
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Free Music Studio Means No More Excuses
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on May 11, 2008
Virtual instruments may be going the way of recorded music: free and online.We've seen plenty of sites that let you make or mix music in a rudimentary way, but none that offer the deep feature set of Hobnox AudioTool. This free online electronic music studio lets you compose with two TB-303 Bass Line generators, Roland TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines and two banks of effects pedals including...
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