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Found on Smashing Magazine authored by Ashley Ringrose
November 16th, 2008 — music
By Ashley Ringrose
Imagine if three minutes of video could save your career. That’s what happened to OK Go when the group produced its own film clip after its label threatened to let them go. Gone are the days of multi-million dollar music videos; today they are all produced with love on small budgets by a committed group of creative people.
Below are 60+ original music videos to inspire you and get you excited about the medium again. Some old, some new, but I guarantee you haven’t seen all of them before. Note: these are presented in random order. Just something to relax on a rainy sunday. Please be patient: the page may need some time to load.
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The Music Videos
1: TISM: Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
2: Mansun: Taxloss
3: Queens of the Stone Age: Go With the Flow
4: Aphex Twin: Windowlicker (NSFW)
5: Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy
6: Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna Go My Way
7: Prodigy: Smack My Bitch Up (NSFW)
Watch in high quality on YouTube
8: A-ha: Take On Me
9: Beck: Girl
Get Quicktimes here
10: Pharcycle: Drop
11: Blur: Coffee & TV
12: Junior Senior: Move Your Feet
13: Royksopp: Remind Me
14: Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer
15: White Strips: Fell In Love With a Girl
Watch in high quality on YouTube
16: Daft Punk: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (fan made)
17: Daft Punk: Around the World
18: Daft Punk: Interstellar 555 Clips
19: Tenacious D: Fuck Her Gently (NSFW)
Watch original Flash animation here
More info here
20: Michael Jackson: Thriller
21: Lemon Jelly: The Shouty Track
22: Justice: D.A.N.C.E.
23: Justice: Stress
24: Justice vs. Simian: We Are Your Friends
25: Justice: DVNO
26: Beastie Boys: Sabotage
27: Radiohead: House of Cards
Get The Code and more info on Google Code
28: Coldcut: Timber
29: Eels: Novocain for the Soul
30: Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood, and Dirty Harry
31: Chemical Brothers: Star Guitar
32: Chemical Brothers, featuring K-OS: Get Yourself High
33: Weezer: Buddy Holly
Full version here.
34: Weezer: Pork and Beans
Pork and Beans - Weezer
35: Coldplay: The Hardest Part
36: Bjork: Wanderlust
Official website for the video here
37: Gotye: Hearts a Mess
38: Funstorung: Sleeping Beauty
39: OK Go: Here It Goes Again
40: Metallica: One
41: Verve: Bittersweet Symphony
42: Supergrass: Pumping on Your Stereo
43: Santogold, Julian Casablancas, N.E.R.D: My Drive Thru for Converse
44: Bjork: All is Full of Love
45: Alex Gopher: The Child
46: Paula Abdul: Opposites Attract
C’mon, this was a classic when it came out! Don’t judge me.
47: Unkle: Rabbit in your Headlights
48: DJ Format: We Know Something You Don’t Know
49: Telemetry Orchestra: Suburban Harmony
50: The Bumblebeez: Dr. Love
Directed by my favorite director, Tom Kuntz. A true genius.
51: Jamiroquai: Virtual Insanity
52: Tool: Stinkfist
53: Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away
54: Weird Al Yankovic: Bedrock Anthem
55: The Avalanches: Frontier Psychiatrist
Also directed by Tom Kuntz
56: Basement Jaxx: Where’s Your Head At
57: Wu-Tang Clan: Triumph
Directed by Brett Ratner!
58: Battles: Tonto
59: Sia: Buttons
60: Fatboy Slim: Praise You, and Weapon of Choice
61: Architecture in Helsinki: Do the Whirlwind
62: Softlightes: Heart Made Of Sound
63: Fujiya & Miyagi: Ankle Injuries
64: Yuki: Sentimental Journey
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Found on TheNextWeb.org authored by Ernst-Jan Pfauth
October 31st, 2008 — iPhone, mac, music
I’m not a morning person. The moment my iPhone’s terrible “alarm” rings, I curse the day. There’s only one reason why I make it to the office, or anywhere besides my bed. Music.
It fuels my life. And those of my friends. We exchange music every day - our drop boxes are working overtime. The Hypemachine, a secret new music service, and some specific friends on Twitter supply us with inspiration for new songs and albums. There’s only one downside.., my iTunes collection is a mess.
In comes TuneUp
Actually, my iTunes collection was a mess. Ever since I’ve discovered TuneUp, I can browse my collection Cover Flow style without being agitated by the lack of covers.
TuneUp is a management tool that let’s you clean dirty tracks (like the ones that have the artists’s name in the song title), find missing cover art, receive upcoming concert alerts, and enjoy music videos.
The PC version is available in French, Spanish, Italian, German, and English, so most of your European folks can use the service in your native language. People from Holland, Scandinavia, and Eastern European countries must remain patient for a while.
Still in beta, we have 50 invites
TuneUp for Mac is still in private beta, meaning it made my Mac crash once and it loads very slowly. But still, my collection looks way better now. So grab yourself one of those Next Web invites to try it our yourself. Send an email to thenextweb@tuneupmedia.com, the first 50 will be invited to the TuneUp Mac or Windows Beta.
The normal program is free for 500 songs/50 album art cleans, and $19.95 for unlimited (Gold version).
Found on Mashable! authored by Paul Glazowski
July 20th, 2008 — music
Combine the element of Web search with music playback and a mohawk-sporting, ciggie-smoking dinosaur, and you get MixTurtle, a new service that works as you might expect it to. Just click and play.
Ajax is responsible making it behave as it does. Some might consider it bit too heavy on the large print. Everything but the topmost menu is sized big. But this is fairly easy to get accustomed to. And there’s an upside to the design choice. The results are easy to make sense of. If your music search produces an especially large volume of material, this can really prove helpful in finding what you’re looking for.
Most impressive with MixTurtle, whose content sources are absent the picture, is the sheer speed with which information is displayed. Begin to type a keyword, and you’re immediately shown a selection of choices in a drop-down overlay. You can select one listed or continue with your query by manually inputting any desired text. Once you’ve entered your search, the rate of return is all but instant. I don’t recall testing any other engine with such alacrity. Not Seeqpod, not Songza, not any other. This little reptile has one heck of a rocket affixed to its rear, for sure.
The rest of the engine is fairly self-explanatory. As noted directly above the results box, you can add songs to a playlist, which you can call on any subsequently visit once you sign up for a free account.
To play back music, you click the artist/track label. Click again to pause. A slim submenu emerges directly below the chosen song, which displays the buffer bar, the number of sources discovered to hold said track, and an option to browse other sources. That last item may not prove too useful, however, since MixTurtle automatically begins to plays a song. (Note: sometimes a request or a user name and password will surface for a particular track.)
Found on Ajaxian » Front Page authored by Dion Almaer
July 17th, 2008 — music
I work on Google Code. Hearing that Radiohead was going to release data with progressive licensing and wanted to do so on Google Code was awesome.
Now we see how cool it is that the data is open. People like Jacob Seidelin are doing interesting things with it.
In this case, Jacob has created amazing visualizations of the data using JavaScript and Canvas:
I figured it would be a nice little experiment to try visualizing this data using JavaScript and Canvas so I went and did just that. The data is simply point clouds, meaning a whole bunch of points with x,y,z values (and intensity) for each frame. The data on Google Code is about 800 MB, so obviously a bit of trimming had to be done. You can’t expect 30 fps with Javascript doing with this kind of data, so I’ve only used every 5 frames giving us a framerate of 6 fps, not great but acceptable. Then the actual points, each frame has about 12,000 points. No way this will render with 6 fps in any browser, so again I’ve taken only 10% of the points. Additionally, I’ve tried to filter away the noise around Thom Yorke’s head since that took up a good deal of points. The interesting bit is him singing, anyway. In the end, we have a dataset of about 4 MB (converted to a JS array) for the one minute clip they released.
Now the data is in a more manageable state and the visualization can begin. It’s not as good as the real thing, obviously, but I think it’s ok (it’s best when you look at Thom in profile). The audio clip is as usual played via SoundManager 2 which also gives us free timing information to sync the rendering to. I’ve played around and made a few different effects that you can toggle on and off (by pressing keys 1-9). While it is playing you can also rotate around the vertical axis by moving the mouse horizontally over the video. Also try clicking/doubleclicking.
Great publicity for Radiohead too. When you are first to do something, that is often the case.
Found on Gizmodo authored by Adam Frucci
July 14th, 2008 — music
Found on Mashable! authored by Sean P. Aune
July 9th, 2008 — music
Recently we brought you a list of free & legal music downloads, but we understand that not everyone wants to eat up space on their hard drive or MP3 player. So we’ve compiled a list of 30+ awesome streaming music sites we know you’ll enjoy.
Whether you’re interested in general streaming music, mixtapes, music discovery, or more, the Internet offers a plethora of streaming music services. Tell us which are your favorites.
General Streaming
AH.fm - Streaming techno and dance music, as well as a forum for you to discuss with other fans.
AmazingTunes.com - Search for artists you want to hear or choose from a list of stations. Has a pop out player so you can listen as you browse other sites on the Web.
AOL Radio - Powered by CBS Radio, AOL Radio brings you talk, streaming music and actual radio stations.
Deezer.com - Part social network, all music. The site allows you to listen to free streaming music, build your own playlists, share them with friends and even embed music on other sites.
DI.fm - Digitally Imported specializes in streaming electronic and dance music from all around the globe. Also offers premium upgrades for higher bit rates.
Free.Napster.com - Free streaming music from Napster that includes full albums.
Grooveshark.com - Build your own playlist, as you go along, save it, and you can listen to it again in the future. Also suggests similar songs and more.
iLike.com - Features a mixture of full songs and samples that you can listen to. An extremely popular app on many social networks.
iTunes - While not a Web application, the vast majority of us have it already installed on our systems. Just click on the “Radio” link and listen to different Internet radio stations from all over the world.
Last.fm - Last.fm follows what you listen to and then makes suggestions of what else you may like, or you can also just dive right in, listening to whatever you feel like.
Live365.com - A mixture of free stations and ones only available to VIP subscribers, it covers just about every genre of music you can think of.
Magnatune.com - A home for independent artists where you can either stream their albums, or buy them by naming your price, starting at $5.00.
MikesRadioWorld.com - A guide to over 5,000 streaming radio stations from the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Europe.
MP3.com - Stream the music, or download it free. Lets you jump around choosing the tunes you want to hear.
MusicMesh.net - Start with one album, listen to it in its entirety or just one track, and then check out other artists and albums that are of a similar vein.
RadioTime.com - Collects streams from radio stations from all over, putting them in one easy to use directory.
Real Player - Download Real Player and then play free music via their Rhapsody service.
SHOUTcast.com - Using a program such as Winamp, choose the radio station of your choice from around the world, and “Tune In”.
Slacker.com - Listen to their pre-built stations, or start building one of your own.
Streampad.com - Search for music to listen to, or point it directly to a page you want to listen to, including podcasts.
TheSixtyOne.com - Streams music and then allows you to purchase the tracks via Amazon.com’s MP3 store. Site also has social aspects allowing users to “bump” songs up playlists as well as make leaderboards by building their own playlists.
Yahoo Music - Only works with Internet Explorer (still), but streams music from artists or by station.
Mix Tapes
MeeMix.com - Start exploring your favorite music and similar artists, create your own station and then share it with your friends.
Mixwit.com - Like Muxtape, you can create and listen to “mix tapes” and then share them with friends.
Muxtape.com - Not your typical streaming site as users make up their own “mix tapes” of up to 12 songs, and then share them with anyone.
Spinjay.com - Create playlists and have people vote on them to make you a popular “DJ”, or simply browse through the existing ones and listen.
Music Discovery
Blip.fm -A “Twitter” for music that lets you tell others what you are listening to and embeds the music in your post, making an ever growing playlist by following the main timeline of the site. Check out the Mashable Conversations interview with Gavin Hayes, lead singer of Dredg, we did a while back about the site.
Finetune.com - As you find music you like, you can add it to a playlist which you can then embed in your site.
Musicovery.com - Name your “mood” and Musicovery starts playing music based on that. It then follows a progression based on your votes for the song, or you can jump around on the other suggestions on the screen.
Pandora.com - Many people were depressed when Pandora had to shut down its non-U.S. streams, but the site lives on. Enter the name of a song or artist you like, the site analyzes it, and builds a channel on that style of music.
Soundpedia.com - Similar to Pandora in that you start with artist and then it builds a station based on that style/genre of music.
Music Search
Dizzler.com - Search for streaming music, radio stations, video and more.
Jiwa.fm - Search for music you like and Jiwa will search for streams of it.
SeeqPod.com - Even though its legality has been called into question, Seeqpod allows you to search the Internet for publicly available MP3s for you to listen to.
Skreemr.com - Like SeeqPod, Skreemr allows you to search for all of those allusive tracks you’d rather just listen to then admit you have them on your iPod.
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Found on ReadWriteWeb authored by Josh Catone
May 15th, 2008 — music
Soulseek, which was creted by former Napster programmer Nir Arbel and visibly resembles early versions of Napster, is not one of the most popular filesharing apps. It doesn't have the mainstream appeal of Kazaa or Limewire, nor does it garner the press attention of BitTorrent. And that's all probably fine with its users, who tend to gravitate toward more independent musical fare. But Soulseek has done something the others haven't -- made the jump to the iPhone.
Developer Errrick created iSlsk, a new filesharing client for jailbroken iPhones that works with the Soulseek network, by basing it on open source versions of the client for the Mac. "I saw all the capabilities this little gadget had and then thought 'why didn't someone already do something like this?'" he told TorrentFreak.
iSlsk lets iPhone users search for and download files directly on their phone. The software also imports downloaded files to the iPod music database so that they can be played with native iPhone controls.
This is not an application you'll ever see in the upcoming official iPhone application database. Apple certainly won't let applications that a) potentially facilitate illegal file sharing and b) cut into their iTunes Store revenue into their official app distribution channels. If iSlsk and other music and video sharing applications catch on, will we continue to see jailbroken iPods even after the release of the official app store? Even if Apple starts selling phones that aren't tied to AT&T?
A video of the of the app in action is below:
Found on Mashable! authored by Stan Schroeder
April 30th, 2008 — music
Oh my. The latest words from Radiohead’s quirky frontman Thom Yorke aren’t about how much money they earned by giving away their music. (Sounds weird, but that’s how things work in this crazy 2.0 world.) It’s about how they don’t plan to do that again.
A somewhat vague quote from The Hollywood Reporter goes as follows:
“I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation. It was one of those things where we were in the position of everyone asking us what we were going to do. I don’t think it would have the same significance now anyway, if we chose to give something away again. It was a moment in time.”
On one hand, it’s only logical. No one really expects them to let people choose what they’re going to pay for their music till the end of eternity. However, it raises certain concerns, depending on what exactly Yorke meant, whether Radiohead really gets this thing or not. 
Radiohead was criticized once already by Trent Reznor, who also gave away parts of Nine Inch Nails’ new album, Ghosts I-IV, but in a slightly different fashion. Reznor called Radiohead’s effort a “marketing gimmick,” and Yorke’s latest statement does nothing to disprove it. Reznor did it right. He set out his plan very clearly, and he’s doing well, earning 1.6 million dollars from album sales in the first couple of weeks, according to him.
There’s a number of opinions on how bands should distribute (and profit from) their music; here’s mine. A band should:
a) charge very little or even nothing for the actual digital copies of their music, especially if it’s quality is lossy (MP3). Digital copies of music can be infinitely copied at zero cost, and therefore their actual value is inherently very small.
b) make sure to offer a variety of choices for purchasing their music, including some added value - CDs, LPs, limited editions, signatures, t-shirts, stickers, concert tickets, vouchers - for the more expensive versions.
c) cut out any middlemen which don’t really provide value to the customer.
It’s very simple. Nine Inch Nails did exactly that, and it worked. Hopefully, Radiohead will do some version of this with their next album. It would be a huge disappointment to see them go back to the “traditional” ways of selling music for their next album. There are other models, too. Einsturzende Neubauten, for example, have let fans that paid a subscription to their web site create their music together with them.
What matters, ultimately, is that people will not and should not pay for something that’s free anyway. Instead of decreasing value of music with DRM (the era of which is, hopefully, behind us), the value should be increased, and users should stop being harassed for sharing. Radiohead and NiN helped pave the way; hopefully they’ll stay on the right track.
Read more of my ramblings about the music industry, distribution of music, and piracy here:
Wanna Beat Piracy? You Have to Do Better Than Them!
RSS and Giving Away Music - What’s The Difference?
Preemptive Piracy Tax: Will Everyone Have To Pay?
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April 27th, 2008 — music
What it does
For the small price of $25, beaTunes can take your iTunes Library and make it much smarter. First off, is a powerful inspection feature that picks up typos and misspelled artists’ names in your library and fixes them for you so that you no longer have R.E.M and REM as separate bands in your music library. After helping you with the cleanup, beaTunes can also help you build intelligent playlists with its BPM detection tool that analyses music and creates playlists of music that have approximately the same beats per minute. This feature allows you to make playlists to fit whatever mood you’re in—if you want some relaxing music, just pick low BPM’s or if you are making a playlist for working out, pick a higher BPM list.
In their own words
“What started out as a BPM detection tool for DJs, runners and dancers, has become one of the finest iTunes™ library management tools around. beaTunes' powerful inspection feature let's you clean up your iTunes track data in a way unrivaled by any other software on the market today. Easily find typos or different spellings of artists' names, automatically fill in the album artist names, and much more. No more R.E.M. and REM in your iPod's artist list!”
Why it might be a killer
The price is very reasonable when you consider that you will never have to manually fix typos in your iTunes library again. People will also definitely like the ability to make playlists based on BPM’s
Some questions
They state that beaTunes doesn’t currently work with music imported from the iTunes store. Will they be able be successful without support for this considerable library?
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Found on TechCrunch authored by Erick Schonfeld
April 15th, 2008 — music
Peter Gabriel knows a thing or two about music, and he thinks he’s come up with a better way for you to find new music that will rock your world. The latest digital music company he is backing is called The Filter. It is essentially a meta-recommendation engine for music, movies, and Web video. Right now, it works best for music. The site was announced today and we have beta invites. There are only 100 of them. So sign up here. You probably have about 30 seconds before they are all gone.
The site (which is a little bit buggy right now) is designed as an entertainment start page, with music, movie, and Web video recommendations that change daily. There are also RSS feeds that link to music and movie reviews. Explains David Maher Roberts, CEO of Exabre (the British company that runs the Filter):
The idea of the Website is the world of entertainment filtered for you. We go out and find lots of information, and filter that according to your taste. The more we know about you, the more we can give you a daily dose of entertainment content.
For now, though, the company is focusing mostly on getting the music recommendations right. Click on the music tab and you are presented with a list of songs selected for especially for you, as well as a list of songs that “everyone is into right now.” You can play each list, but only 30-second samples from each (a major drawback to the site that could be rectified through a deal with We7, an ad-supported, full-track online music service that Gabriel is also an investor in).
The Filter combines together a number of filtering approaches based on purchase, listening, browsing, and rating histories. It tries to collect as much information about musical tastes as it can, both yours and other people’s—overall music purchases, your iTunes history, how you rate songs and artists on the site, and the listening habits and ratings of your friends. In a sense it combines Amazon’s collaborative filtering with Last.fm’s behavioral filtering. Says Roberts:
Amazon’s recommendations are based on purchase data. Last.fm’s are based on consumption data. We are based on both.
The Filter gathers your listening history through an iTunes plug-in that you need to download (also called The Filter) that scans your music library and keeps track of your listening habits, similar to iLike’s iTunes plug-in or Last.FM’s Scrobbler. Then the Filter adds to that by comparing it to overall digital music purchase data. It gets this from OD2, another Gabriel-backed startup that was bought by Loudeye (later bought by Nokia) and powers the digital music stores for Nokia and MSN Music. (When Gabriel sold OD2, he invested in Exabre, which has raised $8.5 million in venture capital). All in all, the company’s database is filled with information about 4.5 million songs, 330,000 movies, and 50 million music transactions and playlists.
The Filter’s data, however, is skewed 80 percent towards European markets, so it ends up recommending songs that are more popular across the pond (they still love The Smiths over there). You can fine-tune the recommendation engine by rating individual songs or artists, or tweaking the engine with sliders that bring up “more expected” or “more surprising” matches. You can also filter by new or old songs. The recommendations seem a little hit or miss. (The Smith’s “How Soon Is Now?” and Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Okay. But Van Halen’s “Jump”?). These should get better over time.
Every filtering approach has its issues. Collaborative filtering has a cold start problem. Until someone build up a purchase history, you don’t really know much about her tastes. Filtering based on the music people own or listen to runs into what Roberts calls the “Beatles Problem”:
There are several problems with the Beatles. For one thing, there is no purchase information. But the real problem is that everybody owns or has the Beatles in their collection. The algorithm thinks it goes with everything. If you leave an algorithm to its own devices, it keeps on recommending the same thing.
To get around these issues, the Filter’s algorithm recognizes super-popular songs and handicaps them with anegative bias so that they don’t dominate the recommendations. It also takes into account inertia. If you haven’t listened to the Rolling Stones in a while, their weighting starts to decay. The system learns about you, but also forgets about you. It gives purchase information the most weight, followed by consumption data gathered from the iTunes plug-in, followed by your ratings and other data.
The Filter has a long way to go to be competitive with Last.fm, iLike, or many other online music services. But its technology-agnostic approach and strong music ties could help it distinguish itself. Definitely what needs strengthening is the social aspect of the service. You can add friends, but they all need to be members right now. This summer, members will be able to take The Filter with them to Netvibes or iGoogle as widgets that show a recommended playlist. A Facebook app is also in the works that will let you mix your musical taste with a friend’s to come up with a musical taste mashup.
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