Get Familiar promo mix by Sinden [steam Fairtilizer]
Fairtilizer posted a 30 minute mix to promote the upcoming FABRICLIVE 43: Switch & Sinden Present Get Familiar, plus you can read Don Rimini's interview with Sinden at the Fairtilizer blog. Great stuff!
It's taken Axl Rose (and a host of accompanying musicians) 19 years to come up with new material and many said it would never see the light of day but Guns'n Roses new album Chinese Democracy is finally out on Monday, is being streamed in it's entirety on their myspace page. On first listen, although not sounding dated, it's a bit hit and miss – there are some really, really good bits and Prostitute (which I heard online before) is an absolute classic, but there's a just a few too many ideas crammed in, often within the same song (great for a mashup), so it seems a bit all over the place. But it was just a first listen so maybe it will grow on me, there's certainly enough in there to warrant more listens. Was it worth the long, long wait? Make up your own mind and check it out and let us know what you think.
iTom wants to be your friend
MySpace, the popular online social network owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, could develop a digital music player in the future, pitting it against Apple Inc’s hot-selling iPod.
But there are no immediate plans to make or sell such a device, MySpace co-founder and Chief Executive Chris DeWolfe said at a conference in San Francisco on Thursday.
"It’s possible" that MySpace, which recently launched a music joint venture with major music labels, could eventually build a device for listening to music, DeWolfe said in response to a question from conference host John Battelle.
"Right now, we’re just focusing on the service," DeWolfe said at the Web 2.0 summit.
MySpace, the largest online social networking site, launched MySpace Music in September, aiming to become the ultimate one-stop for music fans.
The joint venture between MySpace and major music labels such as Sony BMG Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group lets people access a range of new music services, including streaming, music and ringtone downloads, videos, ticketing and merchandising.
McDonald’s, Sony Pictures, Toyota and State Farm are advertising sponsors of the site.
"We wanted to come up with a program that meets the needs of music companies and artists, by definition, and users," DeWolfe said.
People streamed music more than 1 billion times in the first few days and have created 80 million playlists since the launch, DeWolfe said. Five million bands upload their music to the site.
Music companies have been keen on another major player to boost sales by driving competition to iTunes — Apple’s digital music store and the top U.S. music retailer — even as CD sales have fallen in recent years. [read more @ Billboard ]
Like it or not MySpace is very important for musicians. There are many other social networks nowadays, but MySpace is still no1 and almost every artist, band, DJ has their own profile. If you have your own profile, you might wanna customize it’s design. MyTheme.com MySpace profile editor is the perfect tool for this job. I use it for my profiles (both Simon Iddol and APC) and I really love it. Very very easy to use, you don’t need any designer or programmer experience to create a great profile with it! You set up the parameters in the menu, check the preview and if you like it just paste the provided code into your myspace profile and you are done. Only your taste is the limit!! Not like other myspace editors, MyTheme.com is not pasting its own tag into your profile. I’m using it for few months now, and I never had any errors or issues, only a small one with hidden boxes, but finally it turned out that it was my mistake. So go and create a new and shinny profile for yourself in about 20 minutes! Post your myspace url in the commenst to let us know how nice your profile looks now;)
Well this article by Listening Post is a must read!!!
As the RIAA shuts down unlicensed mixtape services such as Muxtape,
the RIAA’s main constituents — Sony Music, Universal Music Group and
Warner Music Group, all equity partners in MySpace Music — have
approved the same sort of user-generated playlists on MySpace,
according to Fortune.
[read it in full @ Listening Post ]
