ARCHIVE: July 2006

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July 31, 2006

James Earl Jones Star Wars Voiceover Remix

Check out the clip Vader Sessions, by AkJak.  Absolutely friggin brilliant.  Take 9 minutes of Star Wars footage, use James Earl Jones voice clips from movies he's been in, besides Star Wars, and you've got a work of art.My favorite... Read More

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July 27, 2006

New BlogCritics Band of the Week Feature

BlogCritics is launching a new Band of the Week feature (starting tomorrow!), which will include interviews, reviews, and links to unsigned bands (or bands signed with very small labels).They're considering bands now -- if you've got something to show off, send... Read More

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July 25, 2006

Interview With Jonathan Coulton, Song Writing Machine

Yesterday, I promised an interview with Jonathan Coulton, the  brains, voice, instruments, sound engineer, and warped psyche behind the awe-inspiring, song-crunching Thing A Week project and its zombies, mad scientists, smitten seahorses, giant squid, and other heros and heroines. ... Read More

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Jonathan Coulton, and the Thing A Week Project

Jonathan Coulton is an awesome DIY musician success story -- if you haven't yet, check out his stuff.  He writes, records, mixes, and masters his own music on his PC home studio, and does it all friggin' extremely well.  His... Read More

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July 19, 2006

Yahoo Music Survey Considers DRM-free MP3s

Interesting - Yahoo! Music recently surveyed subscribers about whether they'd be interested in buying DRM-free MP3s.  The questions were:If Yahoo! Music offered an unrestricted MP3 file format for music downloads, how likely would you be to use it?Would you consider... Read More

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July 17, 2006

Comic Strip For Musicians - Bassist Wanted

If you've ever been in a band, you'll enjoy Bassist Wanted, the online comic strip by Porter Mason.  All your classic band struggles are there -- playing a "gig" to an audience of four, deciding whether or not to expose your musicianship... Read More

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July 14, 2006

The Senator Ted Stevens Net Neutrality Remix

There's been a ton of discussion regarding Net Neutrality lately, which I won't get into here.  But this is worth checking out -- Senator Ted Stevens recently spoke on the subject, demonstrating a slight lack of understanding of the Internet.  My favorite line: ... Read More

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July 13, 2006

The New Transformers Movie

I am a happy man. A new Transformers Movie will be coming out in May 2007.  Check out the new site here, or skip right to the trailer.Have you seen the old school animated movie from 1986?  (I proudly own... Read More

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July 12, 2006

Songwriters Duke It Out on SongFight

If you haven't checked out SongFight yet, you should.  It's basically an online, weekly songwriting competition where bands submit brand new songs written and recorded in response to song titles proposed by the site's administrators.  It's an absolute blast to see what people come... Read More

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July 11, 2006

X-Rockstars Launch New Band, Let Fans Choose Single

A new band formed by x-rockstars Mike Turner (ex-Our Lady Peace) and Pete Lesperance (Harem Scarem/Rubber) independently launched a new website and blog earlier last month.  The group, called Fair Ground, posted new music online, and let fans vote on which song should... Read More

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July 10, 2006

Free Sound Sample Packs

Awesome.  Who doesn't love free sounds?  Check out these Creative Commons licensed sound sources:ccMixter Sample Sound PacksFreeSound ProjectccMixter is doing a great job of partnering with sound libraries to expand their own database.  I posted about the FreeSound Project over a... Read More

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July 06, 2006

LiveCoding - Ultra-Geeky Music Performance

For anyone that's ever thought digital audio home recording enthusiasts were somewhat geeky, they should check out the DJs behind a new movement called "LiveCoding."  Get this, LiveCoders use Perl or homemade programming languages to create music from scratch, using raw... Read More

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July 05, 2006

GarageSpin Mini-Updates

Fireworks were not enough.  I needed some REAL excitement.  So, I created a favicon for GarageSpin.  (favicon = a "favorite icon" that shows up in some URL boxes and bookmark pages of different browsers (Firefox is best)...all the cool kids... Read More

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