By Ryan Van Etten on 12/31/2011
01 – All Time Low 02 – The National 03 – Coachella 2011 04 – ADTR 05 – Sasquatch 2011 06 – Bonnaroo 2011 07 – ALK3 Andriano 08 – The New Deal 09 – Carl Barât 10 – NoFx 11 – Washed Out 12 – Warpaint 13 – Lady Gaga 14 – DFA 1979 [...]
Posted in Music, Photo Journal, Popular | Tagged Alessio Michelini, Alkaline Trio, All Time Low, Animal Collective, Bonnaroo, Bonnaroo 2011, Bowery Ballroom, Carl Barât, Coachella, Coachella 2011, Cuthbert and the Night Walkers, Dan Andriano, Death From Above 1979, Dublin, Fat Mike, Hayley Williams, indie rock, Lady Gaga, live music, Matt Berninger, NoFx, NYC, Paramore, photos, punk, rock/pop, Sasquatch 2011, Sasquatch Festival, Sebastien Grainger, SXSW 2011, Tegan and Sara, Terminal 5, The National, The New Deal, Warpaint, Washed Out |
By Ryan Van Etten on 04/07/2011
Ultra Music Festival 13 hit Miami on March 25–27, 2011 and if you attended, then chances are you got shot by the lens of Adam Jackson, corresponding photographer, at least once. Jackson is a prolific lifestreamer and photographer who’s made his way to UMF every year since 2004. Researchers have clocked him at 60 photos per minute. 40.
Posted in Music, Photo Journal, Popular | Tagged Adam Jackson, Armin van Buuren, ASOT 500, big media, BT, crowds, crowdsurfing, culture, Dance, dance music, dancing, Deadmau5, Deadmau5 costumes, electronica, Erasure, fans, festival, Kaskade, live music, Miami, music photography, people, photos, techno, The Chemical Brothers, UMF (Ultra Music Festival), UMF 2011, UMF photos, Underworld |
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/03/2011
If you’re color blind then this is going to hurt. Based on estimated traffic data from Compete, this visualization depicts web-based music consumption in the U.S. in 2010. Included are sites where music is streamed or downloaded. YouTube, SoundCloud, OurStage, Bandcamp, Grooveshark, ReverbNation, and Vevo all saw notable change in 2010.
Posted in Editorial, Music, Music Flux, News, Popular, Visual | Tagged 2010 year in review, 2010-2011 blizzard series, 8tracks, band websites, bandcamp, Beatport, big media, blip.fm, CDBaby, comparison, consumption, deezer, downloads, Eminem, emusic, Grooveshark, heat map, Hype Machine, iLike, Indaba Music, infographic, iTunes, jamendo, Justin Bieber, last.fm, MOG, most popular apps, music discovery, music industry, music on demand, Napster, NIN, NPR, ourstage, pandora, Pirate Bay, Pitchfork, project playlist, PureVolume, ReverbNation, Rhapsody, Rolling Stone, SHOUTcast, Slacker Radio, songza, SoundCloud, Spotify, stats, streaming, Sysomos, Taylor Swift, Thumbplay Music, trivia, Vevo, visualization, We Are Hunted, we7, YouTube |
By Ryan Van Etten on 01/27/2011
Get the app…Get on bits…Cover it…Check the remix. Cut the intro…Launch campaigns…Connect with fans…WTF is SoundExchange? These were the war cries of musicians in 2010. Get On Bits. Digital is the bomb. When I say ‘get on bits’ I mean get digital. Get on YouTube. Get on Facebook. Get indexed. Become bits. Bits outlive memories. [...]
Posted in Apps, Editorial, Music, Music Flux, News, Popular | Tagged 2010 year in review, 2010-2011 blizzard series, Aderra, Android, arts, Austin Powers, Bandsintown, brain, brain activity, Chris Anderson, cover songs, creativity, crowdsourcing, culture, Dance, dance moves, emotion, engagement, engaging the senses, exfm, Facebook, Facebook growth, fluorescent colors, free, free culture, get on bits, human nature, Ian Rogers, Indaba Music, industry news, influencers, innovation, internet, internet art, Internet Generation, iPhone, Jon Chu, Kyle Bylin, legacy, Live Music Machine, living it, Martin Atkins, mobile, mobile music, mobility, music APIs, music discovery, music industry, MusicBiz, Oli Sykes, Pablo Picasso, predictions, quote, quotes, radio, sensory overload, social media, social music, SoundCloud, SoundCloud API, Spotify, stats, Steve Klein, The Chemical Brothers, The Echo Nest, The Echo Nest API, touchscreens, trends, Vans Warped Tour 2010, Vevo, Vevo growth, viral promotion, Wired, year in review, YouTube |
By Ryan Van Etten on 12/10/2010
Your band’s website design may not be able to make you—but it can break you. In no particular order, these five content-rich musician websites are The Chemical Brothers, The Knife, The Pineapple Thief, Belle and Sebastian, and Death Cab For Cutie. Their heavy weaponry includes HTML5, XHTML, WordPress, AJAX, jQuery, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Soundcloud, Beatport, Last.fm, TinyMCE, and more. […]
Posted in Design, Music, Music: website examples, Popular, Reviews | Tagged band websites, bands, Belle and Sebastian, Death Cab For Cutie, design review, examples, HTML5, jQuery, media-rich design, mobile wordpress themes, multimedia, music web design, non-Flash, review, screenshot, The Chemical Brothers, The Knife, The Pineapple Thief, UK, usability, UX, web design, WordPress |
By Ryan Van Etten on 11/11/2010
The building used to be a bank. But in December, 2004, when I first met Chris Dinardo, the sign on its door read “SMR Studios.” Chris, and two of his hard-rock bandmates, from DownNeck had opened the rehearsal-recording space there in Garfield, NJ and were running their own label, Saturday Morning Records. I discovered the new studio via Craigslist—
Posted in Events, Interviews, Music, Music Flux, Popular | Tagged band, Chris Dinardo, Clifton, Dingbatz, DownNeck, entertainment, Garfield, guitarist, guitars, indie, interview, James Donovan, KISS, Lowdown, metal, music industry, MusicBiz, NeverImage, NJ, NYC, Object 7, old school vs. new school, Paul Jach, photos, producer, production, punk, rock/pop, silver, SLeuX, SMR Studios, story, story-driven, The 33rd Revolution, underground rock, video |
