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From Critics' Words To The Visual Music Review
Feb 8By freelance music writer Tyler Hayes (@thealbumproject). We’re like the classic moth drawn to a flame. As humans we have a hard time resisting a new album review. We have to know whether a publication liked the music or not, whether they think the band has now gone too far away from their roots. We’re fickle people though and we also loath music reviews. We despise hearing cliché phrases to describe a guitar with a distortion pedal. The word “crunchy” can only be used so many times after...
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Local/regional Acoustic, Alternative, Indie, Rock acts needed for 4/24 at The Zoo Bar in Lincoln, NE:...
Feb 8Local/regional Acoustic, Alternative, Indie, Rock acts needed for 4/24 at The Zoo Bar in Lincoln, NE: http://ow.ly/hxFVg Indie on the Move » Availabilities
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Listen: Two New Mixtapes from Das Racist's Kool A.D., With Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock, Pictureplane, More
Feb 8Kool A.D. (aka Victor Vazquez) of the now-disbanded Das Racist continues to churn out new material at a rate almost apace with Lil B's. As promised, yesterday, he released two new collections of outtakes and collaborations-- 19 and 63-- both named after Bay Area bus lines. The tapes feature a huge slew of guests, including Pictureplane, Young L, SKYWLKR, Keyboard Kid, Trackdemicks, Fat Tony, Mike Finito, Lakutis and Spank Rock. There's also a contribution from the Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock, who...
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Videogram Creates Free Comic-Style Display Of Images From Your Music Video
Feb 8A new batch of businesses graduated from 500 Startups' accelerator program this week. One of them was Videogram, a product of Cinemacraft. Videogram takes your video upload or YouTube link and creates a comic-style grid of thumbnail pics from the video that can be embedded on other sites for promotional purposes. It looks like an interesting way to draw people in that goes beyond the single thumbnail typically on display in an embedded video. Cinemacraft is the company behind Videogram....
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Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich Detail Special Atoms for Peace Album Launch Shows
Feb 8Thom Yorke and Radiohead producer/Atoms for Peace band member Nigel Godrich have announced details of the three special shows planned for the launch of the Atoms for Peace album Amok. Yorke and Godrich will DJ at London's Oval Space on February 22 on a bill with Actress and Throwing Snow. On March 8, they'll DJ at Berlin's fabled club Berghain with Shed and Anstam. Video artist Tarik Barri will provide visuals for both of those events. Finally, they'll play Le Poisson Rouge in New York on...
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Concert Promoters Assoc Taps Michael Belkin As President
Feb 8NACPA, the North American Concert Promoters Association, has elected their new board for 2013 at their annual meeting, held this year at L.A. Live. Michael Belkin (Live Nation - Cleveland) has been named as NACPA's president. Other board members include Brian Murphy (AEG/Goldenvoice), Deborah Rathwell (AEG - New York), Eric Pirritt (LN Denver) Alan Scott (Another planet Ent. Berkeley). Board members are elected to serve for a one-year term and Michael Belkin, Deborah Rathwell and Brian...
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Timbre Scores $360K To Take Local Music Discovery App Global
Feb 8Boostrapped live music discovery app Timbre, has scored $360,000 in seed funding from Fred Destin at Atlas, Boston Seed Capital’s Nicole Stata and Bantam Group’s Joe Caruso. The IOS app, often praised for it's simple design, is adding features and expanding to 34 countries. The Timbre app launched in September of 2012 and scored 100,000 downloads in just 2 months with no marketing. In addition to simplicity, another design decision that sets Timbre apart is that, while social sharing...
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Watch Kurt Vile and Street Artist ESPO Make the Cover Art for His New Album Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Feb 8This year Kurt Vile will release a new album, Wakin on a Pretty Daze, the follow-up to 2011's excellent Smoke Ring for My Halo. Today his label Matador has shared a video documenting the production of the record's cover art. For the image, the graffiti and mural artist Stephen Powers aka ESPO painted a commercial-like mural of its title on a wall alongside a train in Philadelphia. He also interpreted many of the album's lyrics into a collection of icons. Check out the clip, directed by Don...
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Listen to the New Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Album, Push the Sky Away
Feb 8The fifteenth Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album, Push the Sky Away, is released a week Tuesday in the U.S. via the band's own label, Bad Seed Ltd. We've heard "We No Who U R" and "Jubilee Street"; now the album is streaming in full, via the Guardian. Listen below, and watch the explicit John Hillcoat-directed video for "Jubilee Street".
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Watch: Divine Fits Cover Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart"
Feb 8Britt Daniel and Dan Boeckner's Divine Fits is currently touring Australia and will play both the Adelaide and Perth strands of the Laneway festival today and tomorrow respectively. During their trip, they stopped by radio station Triple J to take part in their "Like a Version" covers series, where they covered Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart". Watch below, followed by an episode of Pitchfork.tv's "+1" where the band perform "What Gets You Alone" from their debut album, 2012's A Thing Called...
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