Muxtape's short life has drawn quite a bit of attention. Now new features have begun to roll out that add a few more dimensions:
Add a custom title and caption
"Buy at Amazon" link below each song (business model revealed!)
Also the Muxtape blog claims it plays on an iPhone, but unclear how this is working without proper Flash-support. Anyone with proof?
OK, so I guess Techcrunch (as usual) had the scoop on this one but it caught me by surprise. One huge reason for the move is to drive users to pay their $24.95 and go Pro (required to upload video. Flickr is a huge bandwidth drain and they have to start paying for it somehow.
Here is the FAQ.
and sample videos.
Oh and by the way 90 seconds and 150 Mb are the limits...for now.
I officially don't "get" Bjork or even particularly care that much for most of her music...but I do guarantee you've never seen anything quite like her latest video for Wanderlust.
First No Depression and now Harp and Bluegrass Now have called it quits. I know things are tough for print publications but the music publications I actually read/respect seem to be getting hit especially hard...Sad.
On a brighter note: Completely unexpected news of a possible Bad Livers reunion at Pickathon this year makes me more excited than ever for the annual event!!
"It Doesn't Matter Which You Heard": the Curious Cultural Journey of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" Update: Holy cow! Jeff Buckley's version goes to #1 on iTunes. So wait the internet meme or American Idol??
Phun: A fun 2d physics sandbox (Video - at bottom of the page) (download)
This is a sad loss of a great magazine that so well represented alt.county/Americana for almost 13 years.
Ed Ward calls foul on the USPS. (the rest of his post is swell)
Obligatory Metafilter thread here.
Having just read Seth Godin's speech to the music industry, I can't help but relate this loss to the analogy of the tribe, a tribe that has lost an important and guiding voice. What if anything will take its place? The host of niche labels taht advertised and had their records reviewed in No Depression have lost this channel to its tribe members, how will they begin that conversation again?
This NYC based band has been getting a ton of hype, long before their self-titled debut was released. And now that it's been out a whole week, they find themselves playing their tune "A-Punk" on the Late Show!
The song they play in the second clip is "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" which is named after and heavily influenced by a Congolese dancebeat...I like!
NPR's World Cafe has a small interview and four songs in a live set for you to check out.
I am ashamed to admit how much I loved this song in junior high.
Run both windows at the same time and enjoy the shot by shot remake of the classic (before there was a budget for these types of things) music video. (via Waxy)
Journey "Separate ways" from patsevc on Vimeo.
Ok, so since this site is updated so regularly (hmmm) I thought I would start another blog. This one is a purely going to focus on the intersection of muisc and technology and I really want to make it a pretty decent place. Oh and its not a Typepad blog...I am trying out Wordpress....come check it out.... DigitalTunes.
This is a very decent list of free resources for music on the web. HypeMachine has long been a favorite of mine, glad to see they love it to!
Pitchfork Top 50 Music Videos
KEXP - DJs Best of 2007
13 Great Musical Discoveries of 2007 from KEXP
Muzzle Of Bees - Music blog
WEXP - Top 10 debuts
Tiny Mix Tapes - Music blog
Largehearted Boy - Top 12 of 2007 (Many universal choices here: Band of Horse, Andrew Bird, Okkervil River etc. but a few nice surprises as well, and for gluttons here is his massive collection of top music lists)
Wow! I would love to know what kind of combination of skill/equipment/PhotoshopMagic it takes to get color and light quality like these photos by Benjamin Fink.
Test your world geography knowledge with this fun little game...Traveler IQ.
Brontosaur.us Nice looking new music related blog.
Really just a large collection of YouTube links...But its nice to have them all collected in one place. I loved a bunch of these bands in the 80's. I have never been very convinced of the definition of "post-punk" and I am pretty sure many of these bands were never tagged with this ill-defined genre name back when these songs were released, but oh well. Enjoy!
Note to self: Explore this at next opportunity. It looks great!
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