By Ryan Van Etten on 04/13/2011
Kaiser Chiefs singer Ricky Wilson performs in 2005. – Photo: Andrew Kendall. “If you haven’t got a scene you’ve gotta’ set your own scene” said Kaiser Chiefs singer Ricky Wilson at 31:40 and “keep your ears peeled” for song ideas said drummer Nick Hodgson at 51:00 during their interview below with Steve Lamacq on BBC [...]
Posted in Discussion, Interviews, Music, Music Flux | Tagged Andrew Kendall, BBC Music, British music scene, history, indie rock, Kaiser Chiefs, music industry, MusicBiz, Nick Hodgson, photos, post-punk revival, Ricky Wilson, rock/pop, Steve Lamacq, tips, UK, video |
By Ryan Van Etten on 12/31/2010
2010′s hugest live-music media—in 10 photos and 10 videos. Includes M.I.A., Muse, DJ Shadow, Orbital, Arcade Fire, The Black Keys, Dirty Pretty Things, Paramore, Sharon Van Etten, Atari Teenage Riot, Sleigh Bells, Sparks The Rescue, The All-American Rejects, Die Antwoord, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Alkaline Trio. 10 photos and 10 videos.
Posted in Music, Photo Journal | Tagged 2010 year in review, 2010-2011 blizzard series, Academy Music Group, Alessio Michelini, Alkaline Trio, Arcade Fire, art punk, arts, Atari Teenage Riot, bands, best of, best of 2010, big media, Bonnaroo, Bonnaroo 2010, Coachella, Coachella 2010, cool hair, Dallas, Dance, dance music, dance pop, dance punk, dancing, Deadmau5, Die Antwoord, DJ Shadow, Dublin, Emily Haines, enter the ninja, Exit Festival, Exit Festival 2010, Fake Blood, fashion, festival, Glastonbury, Glastonbury 2010, Godiva Festival, Godiva Festival 2010, Hamburg, Hayley Williams, HD videos, hip hop, Houston, indie, live music, London, Los Angeles, M.I.A., manchester, Miami, multimedia, Muse, music photography, noise pop, NYC, O2 Arena, Orbital, Paramore, performers, performing, photojournalism, photos, pop-punk, punk, rap, rock/pop, Serbia, Sharon Van Etten, singers, Sleigh Bells, Smashing Pumpkins, Sparks The Rescue, SXSW, SXSW 2010, Texas music scene, The All-American Rejects, The Black Keys, the real shit, The xx, Tiffany Page, top 10, Tyson Ritter, UK, UMF (Ultra Music Festival), UMF 2010, usa, Vans Warped Tour, Vans Warped Tour 2010, video, videojournalism, Wembley Stadium, year in review |
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 12/08/2010
8 Advantages To Embedding Videos From YouTube OR Vimeo—as opposed to streaming from your own host in a custom player 1. No bandwidth strain or maintenance issues. 2. Visitors get player controls that they’re already used to. 3. Shareability. 4. It works. Everywhere. Always. (plays on iPhone etc.) 5. Easy as f*** to implement (copy [...]
Posted in Music, Music Flux | Tagged Atari Teenage Riot, best practices, embedding, Fusion, Fusion 2010, Google, live music, music web design, shareability, social media, social music, stats, syndication, tips, traffic, Tube Mogul, UK, usability, UX, video, video player, Vimeo, web design, YouTube |
By Ryan Van Etten on 01/24/2010
Bill Burton: “Sometimes we limit ourselves by what we believe we can do. We don’t even start. We don’t even try.” Burton delivered this powerful point in his TEDx talk last week, called How To Have A Christmas Number One Single, where, citing RATM’s rise to UK Xmas no. 1, he exemplified the boundless force of social media, and, through a storytelling memorization activity, he demonstrated the limitless—but often unrealized—potential of the human mind.
Posted in Boundless, Editorial, Interviews, Music, Music Flux, News | Tagged belief, Bill Burton, christmas number one, counterculture, culture, defiance, empowerment, Facebook, fans, interview, jon morter, killing in the name, memorization, MusicBiz, no limits, nu metal, number one, people, pop, pop charts, psychology, radio, RATM, ratm4xmas, Simon Cowell, social media, social music, storytelling, TED, tracy morter, UK, X Factor, xmas |
