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GigPress
Just tried Gigpress. Might *fingers crossed* be that decent WP events plugin we've been waiting 5 years for.
wordpress  plugins  plugin  music  events  diary  from twitter_favs
june 2011 by peteashton
A performance by John Zorn, Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed caused many in the audience to boo, walk out and demand their money back.
"Really, you're going to get bitchy about abstract noise from the guy responsible for the notorious feedback fury of Metal Machine Music?"
toblog  music 
july 2010 by peteashton
Glastonbury Festival - The Flaming Lips
Thirty minutes of The Lips at The Glasto. Awesome as ever. (If I might be permitted a gripe, I'm sure those at the back of the field had a better view than I did at the back of the Birmingham Academy...)
toblog  music  flaminglips  live  video 
june 2010 by peteashton
Devo: Something For Everybody
Its the first Devo album in 20 years and it's really very good indeed. But that shouldn't surprise anyone who saw them tour the classic stuff the other year. They boys still got it.
music  devo  review  toblog 
june 2010 by peteashton
The Digital Economy Bill: Be Careful What You Wish For
Lots of wiffle, waffle and bluster about the DE Bill. This is not wiffle nor waffle nor bluster.
debill  copyright  music  toblog  law  government  industry 
april 2010 by peteashton
MOON8
An 8bit cover album of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. Looking forward to mixing this in with the Flaming Lips' recent version.
music  pinkfloyd  8bit  chiptune  mp3  toblog  8bitpete 
march 2010 by peteashton
Late Junction Sessions
These sessions, available as a podcast presumably because they contain original work not locked down by record labels. have been consistently wonderful. Well done BBC.
music  latejunction  bbc  podcasting  toblog 
february 2010 by peteashton
Free-Stuff Round-Up
Dunc, who knows his onions, recommends three bands whose music you can download in just a couple of clicks.
music  downloads  duncautumnstore  toblog 
january 2010 by peteashton
The Dark Side of the Moon (The Flaming Lips album)
This almost slipped under my radar. It's very good indeed, both faithful to and playful with the original. Go get a copy.
flaminglips  music  pinkfloyd  darksideofthemoon  toblog 
january 2010 by peteashton
The Kleptones "Uptime/Downtime" Album
From the monkey who brought us Yoshimi vs The Hip Hop Robots and A Night At The Hip Hopera. Another masterpiece of bastard pop free to download. Do it now.
mp3  kleptones  mashup  music  toblog 
january 2010 by peteashton
Chip Music
A forum for creators and fans of 8bit and related music. Haven't dived in yet.
8bit  chiptune  community  music  forum  toblog 
january 2010 by peteashton
Dear Rock Stars
Steve Lawson, a musician, replies to those in the "music industry" who say people like him are suffering. He's not suffering.
music  business  filesharing  toblog 
january 2010 by peteashton
My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
So I was naively excited when I opened the envelope. And my answer was right there on the first page. In five years, our three albums earned us a grand total of… $62.47 What the fuck?
music  business  musicindustry  labels 
december 2009 by peteashton
A Decade In Music: Myths Of The Digital, Post-Napster Age
s Lord Mandelson's anti-piracy Digital Economy Bill begins its uncertain journey through parliament, John Tatlock investigates the music industry's most troubled decade yet and says 'stop whining, it's only a scratch'.
history  music  p2p  filesharing  myths 
december 2009 by peteashton
BallDroppings
Beautiful music generating thing based on drawing lines for balls to bounce off.
music  flash  art  sound  physics 
november 2009 by peteashton
It meant that you were a protest singer
Tom Ewing looks at the "United Breaks Guitars" protest video not from it's status as a viral hit but through the novel and more useful perspective of a music writer. In short, the medium - country music - is a potent vehicle for "hard-luck stories and straight-talking". The medium is the message and all that.
tomewing  vitral  music  marshallmcluhan  mcluhan  ash10 
july 2009 by peteashton
The Superfan Strategy » The Cynical Musician
A long and detailed attack on Kevin Kelly's "1000 True Fans" theory whereby a musician (or similar) can thrive by cultivating a relatively small cohort of fanatics. It's a fairly easy one to destroy but the process is interesting and useful. (I also like the subheading "What the 'new music experts' don’t tell you".)
backlash  music  ash10  superfan 
july 2009 by peteashton
The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online
A couple of years back Andrew Dubber wrote a series of blog posts distilling everything he knew about online music. He turned it into a book and now it's a serious of videos for their forthcoming <a href="http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/">iTunes U</a> podcasts. The best way to download them is to subscribe to one of the RSS feeds on the right in iTunes and download them all.
ash10  dubber  music  online  bcu  podcast  video 
july 2009 by peteashton
The Flaming Lips’s Biography
This is interesting because I think it's interesting
flaminglips  music  lastfm 
july 2009 by peteashton
RSS and the Greatly Exaggerated Rumors of the Album’s Death « Bandcamp Blog
Interesting observation on Bandcamp of how their artists are using "albums" as buckets into which songs go.
"What exactly constitutes an album is rapidly evolving... Rather than treating albums as immutable collections of tracks, lots of you treat albums as open containers. Containers for song-a-day/week projects, explorations of particular musical styles, or just general works-in-progress."
Reminds me of Flickr photo sets which people either use as one-off collections of photos which will never be added to or themed collections which build over time. Bandcamp have added RSS feeds to their albums, as Flickr have to photo sets. Seems counter-intuitive at first but actually makes perfect sense. Albums are dynamic things.
music  bandcamp  rss  albums  containters  flickr  ash10 
july 2009 by peteashton
Poptimist: Around the World in 84 Tweets
Tom Ewing provides one of the best guides I've seen as to what Twitter is, what it isn't, why it matter and why it doesn't. In 84 paragraphs of less that 140 characters. You'll want to skim this but there's some good stuff in there. He's writing on a music site so watch out for that focus.
metapodconnect  reading  music  pitchfork  twitter  ash10 
may 2009 by peteashton
Don’t go over the self-promotion cliff; crush your local radio station instead. - MTT - Music Think Tank
"The famous hockey player Wayne Gretzky once said: “A good hockey player plays where the puck is; a great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” In this post I want to uncover the obstacles to self-promoting music and suggest an alternate path that will take you where the puck is going to be."
metapodconnect  reading  music  strategy  ash10 
may 2009 by peteashton
Outdated music industry deserves no Govt help
Great overview of the current tactics used by the music recording industry to shore up their failing business models which asks the obvious question:
Where's the government help for travel agents, directory publishers, local newspapers, hard-core pornographers and other industries whose entire business models are disappearing thanks to online competition, legal or otherwise? What's so special about music?

<i>via <a href="http://twitter.com/dubber/statuses/1300280835">Dubber</a>, natch</i>
music  toblog 
march 2009 by peteashton
The Kaye Family on LP Cover Lover
I bought this record in a charity shop years ago and fell in love with it. I don't miss having a vinyl player these days but occasionally the glory of their music pops into my memory. There are 30 second clips <a href="http://forgottenalbums.com/albums/?p=56">here</a> but the full album download appears to have expired. Still, it's something and, if I'm honest, it's all about the glorious cover.
kayefamily  music  toblog 
march 2009 by peteashton
Download everything from 50 Foot Wave
Kristin Hersh and co and put all their recorded output from the last few years online for free. Go get it.
music  50footwave  kristinhersh  free  toblog 
march 2009 by peteashton
First Fold Records
Met up with Stuart Tonge last week and he handed me a pile of CDs from the co-op label he's involved with. All good stuff and once I've given them a proper listen I intend to write about them but in the meanwhile they have a blog with some vids and stuff.
firstfold  music  toblog 
february 2009 by peteashton
The unnofficial SXSW 2009 music torrent
A few years ago the SXSW music festival put mp3s from all the bands playing in a big torrent. It was a big success but for some reason they discontinued it despite still having the files on the website to download one by one. Thankfully a precedent was set and every year kind souls do the work for them. The torrents went live a couple of days ago and are now seeding nicely so you should be able to download this 5GB of tunes fairly quickly.
sxsw  music  mp3  torrent  toblog 
february 2009 by peteashton
Half Map Half Biscuit
"Locations namechecked in the collected works of Half Man Half Biscuit" slapped on a Google Map. A thing of great beauty. <i>via <a href="http://twitter.com/midge_uk/status/1222327673">Midge</a></i>
hmhb  music  halfmanhalfbiscuit  google  googlemaps  map  toblog 
february 2009 by peteashton
Tillakaratne
Dubber recommended this selection of unlistenable noize to me. Needless to say I love it.
music  toblog 
february 2009 by peteashton
Thomas Moronic's End of year music list
Another chunk of albums to maybe investigate from someone who puts a bit of thought into such things.
thomasmoronic  music  list  toblog 
december 2008 by peteashton
Dr Ladysound's Albums of the Year 2008
John Allison's annual roundup of music he liked. (Nice to see a music roundup at the <i>end</i> of the year and not in October or something silly.)
music  scarygoround  comics  roundup  toblog 
december 2008 by peteashton
8-Bit Jesus
An album of Xmas songs done 8-bit style by Doctor Octoroc. via <a href="http://cleanskies.tumblr.com/post/66925556">Cleanskies</a>, currently my premier source for all things 8-bit.
8bit  nintendo  music  mp3  christmas  toblog 
december 2008 by peteashton
Oren Marshall
Avant-guard tuba player who uses loop samplers and effects in his performance. Saw him on Sunday and was so impressed I bought his CDs. Lots of audio on this page.
orenmarshall  tuba  music 
november 2008 by peteashton
Failing hard drive sounds
Audio of crashing heads and stuck spindles. Via <a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/11/14/failing-hard-drive-sounds">Gruber</a> who rightly calls them "Some of the most terrifying noises known to man" but there's also something intriguing about the rhythms. I may have to construct a tune...
audio  music  harddrive  sounds  samples  clunks 
november 2008 by peteashton
Born In The Drone
Gav Burrows riffs off something I wrote last December and produces a characteristically huge article about the music style we call drone. Great stuff!
gavburrows  drone  music 
october 2008 by peteashton
Celebrate Birmingham’s Underground
DJ Marc Reck is involved in a massive 12 hour event featuring 25 different promoters and the like and it's gotten him musing about the nature of such things. This quote particularly jumped out to me:

"Often, it seems that that the underground scene, its venues, and respective promoters often gets missed out of the discussion about why Birmingham is not on the map, which in this city confuses me, as at least from my eyes, the more underground events and venues, have bought a range of different music, experiences and culture to me over the last 15 years."
birminghamuk  birmingham  marcreck  dj  club  undergroud  music  collectives  bigcityplan 
september 2008 by peteashton
Bat For Lashes
Bit late to the party with this musician I think but like what I hear so far. (Kinda assumed it was a goth-metal band from the name - my bad...)
batforlashes  music  lastfm 
september 2008 by peteashton
Foxkeh Dance
Celebrating 10 years of Mozilla and 10 years of the Hamster Dance in one retro website. I have to say 10 years of Moz doesn't affect me as much as 10 years since the Hamster Dance. Was it really so long ago? (Thinks about what's happened to self since 1998...) My god, it was...
music  firefox  foxkeh  hamsterdance  meme  mozilla 
august 2008 by peteashton
Fresh Born
"is the first single from Deerhoof’s upcoming record, Offend Maggie. Download the sheet music, make your own version, upload it to your webpage or blog, then post the link here." Fantastic way to promote a new album!
deerhoof  music  promotion  newmusicstrategies  mp3  marketing  sharing  sheetmusic 
august 2008 by peteashton
A Thing About Machines
"is a three day audio/visual arts festival in Coventry dedicated to local hero Delia Derbyshire exploring art and music that uses, reinterprets, reviews or renews technology invented in the past 100 years." Runs from 19th -21st September and features artists including Andy Votel, Frog Pocket, 7inch Cinema, Talking Birds and Modulate. Sounds like a must! (Ta Chris U for the heads up)
music  sound  noise  experimental  7inch  modulate  av 
august 2008 by peteashton
Tom Waits, Le Grand Rex Paris, 24th July 2008: Gig Reconstruction
The notion has occurred to me ever since I <a href="http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2007/07/15/supersonic-collective-memory/">tracked</a> all the videos from Supersonic last year, but this is the first time I've seen someone attempt to completely reconstruct a concert using mobile phone footage uploaded to YouTube. 12 out of 25 songs is not a bad hit ratio.

By the way, if you want to get analytical this is <i>real<i> crowdsourcing and citizen journalism. Not asking people to get stuff or send stuff to you but harvesting what the crowd collectively produces as autonomous agents. So there.
tomwaites  mobile  video  youtube  music  live  concert  recording  citizenjournalism 
august 2008 by peteashton
How to hack a Thingamakit
Awesome tutorial on circuit bending a Thingamakit, two of which are in transit to me as I type. I think I might be brave and try this stuff on one of them, particularly the audio input and waveshaper knob. <em>via <a href="http://twitter.com/hanuman/statuses/893124012">Hanuman</a></em>
music  electronics  hacks  thingamakit  thingamagoop  bleeplabs  circuitbending 
august 2008 by peteashton
iPodRip
I haven't felt the need to download all the music off my iPhone, or that of someone else for that matter, but I might do one day so this is for future reference.
software  apple  osx  MAC  itunes  ipod  music 
august 2008 by peteashton
KateGoes and writes the the theme to Coming of Age, a new BBC show.
Fave Brummie band with huge potential start their journey to success and all that. There's a clip <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/08_august/18/three.shtml">here</a> of the comedy show in question and while it's, um, okay-ish the music is fab!
kategoes  music  tv  theme 
august 2008 by peteashton
Appendix Out
A Scottish/German folk singer I came across while stumbling through Last.FM. I like lots.
music  last.fm  appendixout  folk 
august 2008 by peteashton
Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games
Missed this at the time, but last February Nine In Nails ran a game that has striking similarities to the Lost Experience, dropping absurdly obscure clues around their gigs and waiting for obsessive fans to pick up on them and share the knowledge. Fascinating stuff.
arg  args  wired  nin  viral  games  music  culture  arts 
august 2008 by peteashton
Three Buzz Boxes at once
Rob Horrocks previews the Buzz Box, hand held boxes that buzz, with a nice piece of audio. He explains:

"The sound can be controlled by the user with a knob or a sound hole to manipulate or vibrate the noise that emerges from a tiny speaker inside. Each box has an output for amplification. When the buzz boxes are linked together they form an orchestra with each box taking on a role within the buzzing ensemble. At the Digital Dystopia gig audience members will be invited to buzz to their hearts content during a 10 minute segue. Up to 24 of the boxes will be plugged in and ready to buzz before Cellardoor take to the stage."

Can't wait!
projectxpresents  buzzbox  music  syth 
august 2008 by peteashton
Noise.io - iPhone synth
A touch-controlled noise-making app for the iPhone to be released on August 25th. I think I will be buying this. Oh god yes.
iphone  application  synthesizer  software  music  noise 
august 2008 by peteashton
Eine Kleine Nacht Musik mixtape
Lovely hour long mp3 of German electronic music from Kraftwerk and Neu! to (I think) the present day. Recommended work soundtrack.
music  EineKleineNachtMusik  mixtape  dj 
august 2008 by peteashton
Shellac / Lightning Bolt / Pissed Jeans / OM / Wooden Shjips come to Birmingham!
Fantastic lineup from Capsule for November 1st. Shellac and Lightning Bolt in particular. Woo!
gig  live  music  capsule  custardfactory  shellac 
august 2008 by peteashton
Internet Archive: Acid Mothers Temple
A whole load of bootlegs from live shows by my new favourite Japanese psychedelic noise combo.
acidmothers  acidmotherstemple  live  music  archive  internetarchive  japanese 
august 2008 by peteashton
Flapper and Firkin to be demolished to make way for a Brindleyplace-style scheme.
Fucking fuckers. Fucking fuckstick fuckers. I mean, what the fuck goes through these people's minds? Sigh...
birminghamuk  pubs  venues  music  live 
july 2008 by peteashton
Last.fm + YouTube = music tv goodness
Nice little mashup that takes your Last.FM top artists and creates a personal MTV channel from YouTube. This is mine and it's oddly not that embarrassing.
last.fm  youtube  mashup  video  music 
july 2008 by peteashton
Supersonic stage times
A cursory glance implies the extra day has meant things are a little more spread out meaning less clashes and more time for mooching. Might even take in a few talks.
supersonic  capsule  music  live  festival 
july 2008 by peteashton
Tom Peel
Saw him play recently. Nice quirky singer songwriter stuff. Has some mp3s.
music  singer  birminghamuk 
july 2008 by peteashton
Dunc Autumn Store rounds up a few blogs
by local music types on the whole. Warms my heart to see this. My work here is done.
blogs  blogging  birminghamuk  music  autumnstore 
june 2008 by peteashton
Julian Cope Tamworth heritage tour
"A small selection of Julian Cope-related locations in the Tamworth area, put together by 7 Inch Cinema"on Google Maps with embedded video and everything. Nice!
juliancope  music  tamworth  westmidlands  cope  heritage  7inch 
may 2008 by peteashton
Surface Unsigned
Surface sent a take-down email to Created in Birmingham. We responded by rephrasing the offending bit in LOLspeak.
surfaceunsigned  surface  takedown  ceaseanddesist  music  unsigned  birminghamuk  noblog 
may 2008 by peteashton
The day the music died
Microsoft are "switching off" DRM-ed music bought from them. Diveinto Mark explains it in a letter to his father.
music  drm  microsoft  mp3  eff  blogs  digital 
may 2008 by peteashton
Soundamus - native to a web of musical data
Mashing up LastFM and Amazon data into a recommends RSS feed.
music  api  web  lastfm  data  design  soundmus  ash10 
may 2008 by peteashton
Godfather of Gangsta
The history of Stagger Lee / Stagolee
staggerlee  stagolee  music  nickcave  crime  mythology 
may 2008 by peteashton
Melody Gardot
Liking the music and the sexy-cool.
music  jazz  blues  MelodyGardot 
may 2008 by peteashton
Assistant Blog: lauren and lily
A discussion between Lauren Laverne and Lily Allen shows some uncomfortable things.
music  feminism 
may 2008 by peteashton
Kleptones: Bo Rhap
Far too many Bohemian Rhapsody covers mashed into one monstrosity.
kleptones  bohemianrhapsody  queen  music  filetype:mp3 
may 2008 by peteashton
Experiments with retail
Andrew Dubber introduces Liquid Crunch, his new online music shop where you can "return" the mp3 if you don't like it for a full refund.
dubber  liquidcrunch  music  internet  mp3 
april 2008 by peteashton
Jazz and hip-hop star Soweto Kinch joins Creative Networks
"Birmingham’s multi award-winning jazz and hip-hop musician, Soweto Kinch, will join this month’s Creative Networks event, to explore the resurgence of live music and its positive impact on local communities."
events  sowetokinch  music  networking  live  community 
april 2008 by peteashton
Bearos is 10 Years Young!
Dunc Autumnstore on the Birmingham record label that started with the seminal zine "We Brought Our Friends" and carried on for a decade.
bearos  music  history 
april 2008 by peteashton
Performances by BCMG at Ikon
"Birmingham Contemporary Music Group will perform The Partenheimer Project by composer Kevin Volans, commissioned as part of Jürgen Partenheimer's exhibition." 19/20th April, free
music  art  ikon  events 
april 2008 by peteashton
Birmingham Bands On Tour
Birminghamusic.com rounds up a few of them.
music  bands  touring 
april 2008 by peteashton
How do I even start? | New Music Strategies
"So you’ve decided to ‘go online’. How do you manage such a process?" Dubber outlines the steps, which start with a piece of paper.
internet  music  blogging  dubber 
april 2008 by peteashton
100 Questions I Keep Getting Asked About Music Online
Andrew Dubber at New Music Strategies starts a new series of posts that will eventually become a book
andrewdubber  dubber  newmusicstrategies  music  online 
march 2008 by peteashton
Fused at SXSW 2008
Now fairly recovered the Fused gang are telling their story from Austin. Two parts up, more to follow.
sxsw  fused  music 
march 2008 by peteashton
Birmingham Music Network
The new Birmingham Music Network website is coming together nicely. Not quite ready for launch but worth a look. This could be rather special...
birminghammusicnetwork  blogs  website  music  bmn 
march 2008 by peteashton
Birmingham Band Give away Free EP Online!
Red Route have five mp3s in a handy zip file for your listening pleasure.
music  redroute  mp3  free 
march 2008 by peteashton
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