Entries Tagged as 'music'

Friday, April 11th, 2008

a magical video ad-venture

shot and produced by the kicakss siouxzen kang, and featuring an unreleased glitch mob track! if this doesn’t make you wanna go, you’re probably not someone who likes FUN!

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

beyond content

This whole thing Radiohead’s doing, encouraging remixes of its songs is way clever.

Radiohead, iTunes and GarageBand are giving you the opportunity to remix the band’s new single “Nude”.
To make remixing easy, the separate ’stems’ from the song are available to purchase from iTunes. The ’stems’ available are bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. You can […]

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

the evolution of the LIB music player

LIB06:
an immobile little flash dookiy embedded in the site:

up close it looked like this:

at the time we thought it was quite the snazz.
LIB07:
we figured this kind of media thingie shouldn’t be trapped on our site, so we created a “portable” popup player that you could launch on our site, and then take along with you […]

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

culture seeks its level

In Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter explain that really, there was never any conflict between the two to begin with. Counterculture hinges on, and consumer culture consists of, the expression of your lifestyle/identity. Whether you’re choosing to wear Nikes, Doc Martens, or some crazy obscure Japanese […]

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

yet more from the New Yorker!

“THIS TRACK JUST MADE ME PREGNANT” - Sasha Frere-Jones, pop music critic at the New Yorker, waxes poetic about the Glitch “Lazer-Bass” Scene. Read more…

Monday, March 17th, 2008

adore adore

heard a track on indie 103.1 a couple of weeks ago by a dude named yoav and really dug the sound, then i checked out the lyrics last night, and was completely sold. with songs about the nightlife underbelly (”club thing“) and celebrity culture (”adore adore“) it’s like social psychology insights on a guitar–with […]

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

the glitch mob has a website!

i’m excited to announce that the glitch mob website, which i’ve been consulting on over the past few months, is finally launched! it’s still just a wee little weblet at the moment, but there are many plans to have it be slayin’ the bandwidth proper in no time.

theglitchmob.com
ps. i’m looking forward to every instance […]

Monday, February 18th, 2008

consumer insight is funny

“You’re just perpetuating the stereotype by acting all stereotypical.”
- deleted line from tony scott’s domino

i have no idea about the racial background of the individual(s) that publish stuff white people like, but does it even matter?
as lenny bruce said, it’s not the word itself, but the censorship of the word that gives it its […]

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

sell music on ANYTHING!

it used to be that the only way to sell music was on completely useless crap. like weird tape, or dumb plastic discs, or even clunkier vinyl discs. whatever it was, it was something that served absolutely no other utilitarian or aesthetic purpose than simply to host music. then, of course, digital media came along […]

Friday, December 21st, 2007

the music industry: destruction/creation

you know, i didn’t even used to care about the music industry. i could vibe on its culturally-relevant aspects, but the industry of the music industry was never all that interesting to me. it was always just this thing…over there. somewhere else. the concert industry, which i have been involved with for a while, is […]