Tag Archives: music

Killing It: Society Theory

Written by Peter. Posted on February 9, 2011. 1 Comment.
This week on Killing It, we’re bringing you a hot new “intelligence agency” that helps musicians and artists share their stories across the new media spectrum. When I met this duo back in the summer they were bursting with great ideas and already making some serious moves, so I decided to follow up and let [...]

An Island In Your Living Room

Written by Peter. Posted on February 2, 2011. No comments.
For the past month now many of us have been teased by the, well, teasers that acclaimed filmmaker Vincent Moon (of Takeaway Show fame) has put out to promote his latest film An Island this month. For the film he teamed up with 8-piece band Efterklang to inhabit a small island off the Danish coast [...]

Killing It: Scott McDowell

Written by Peter. Posted on January 26, 2011. 4 Comments.
This week’s featured person on “Killing It” is an SF-based audio engineer and one of the people behind Chasing the Moon, a video podcast featuring some of the best in the local indie music scene. Name: Scott McDowell Job: Staff audio engineer at Hyde Street Studio C and Tiny Telephone. Favorite food: Any of the soba soups at [...]

Retinal Blast: Nathaniel Whitcomb Redefines Music Videos

Written by Peter. Posted on January 13, 2011. 1 Comment.
This weeks Retinal Blast dives into the work of Cleveland-based artist and designer Nathaniel Whitcomb. Under his brilliant blog Think or Smile, Whitcomb logs his daily inspirations (visual and musical), as well as his many artistic creations – which have developed a growing following in the indie music blogosphere. His most impressive work, however, has been [...]

Friday Music Video Round Up (12/17/2010)

Written by Peter. Posted on December 17, 2010. No comments.
Friday is supposed to be the fun day at work, so why not spend some of your day watching cool new music videos? Here are some recent favorites: Eskmo – “We Got More” – Directed by Cyriak ceo – “Illuminata” – Directed by Marcus Soderlund Blu and Exile – “Seasons” Sam Prekop – “The Silhouettes” – Directed by Jordan [...]

@IDEO Brings Tactile Experience to Digital Music (via @psfk)

Written by Peter. Posted on December 14, 2010. No comments.
IDEO has always been great at thinking out loud. Since they have such a large collection of great minds at their disposal, it’s only fair that they let us know what’s in their heads. Over a year ago a team of designers from IDEO put out a book called I Miss My Pencil, that explores [...]

Friday Music Video Round Up (12/9/2010)

Written by Peter. Posted on December 10, 2010. No comments.
Friday is supposed to be the fun day at work, so why not spend some of your day watching cool new music videos? Here are some recent favorites: Flying Lotus – “Zodiac Shit” – Produced by Adult Swim Daft Punk – “Derezzed” “Memory” by Pedro Maia / Music by Panda Bear Gatekeeper – “Mirage” – Directed by Thunder Horse [...]

@Billboarddotcom’s New Social 50 Music Chart

Written by Peter. Posted on December 2, 2010. No comments.
Billboard announced today that they have a new chart tracking the 50 most social musicians in the world. I’m not sure how much people pay attention to Billboard charts these days, but if they do, I guess this is a new incentive for musicians to be awesome at Twitter, Facebook, etc. This might become a [...]

Friday Music Video Round Up (11/19/2010)

Written by Peter. Posted on November 19, 2010. 1 Comment.
Friday is supposed to be the fun day at work, so why not spend some of your day watching cool new music videos? Here are some recent favorites. Twin Sister – “All Around and Away We Go” – Directed by Mike Luciano Gorillaz – “Melancholy Hill” – Directed by Chateau Egyptrixx – “Start from the Beginning” – Animated short [...]

Friday Music Video Round Up (11/12/2010)

Written by Peter. Posted on November 12, 2010. No comments.
Friday is supposed to be the fun day at work, so why not spend some of your day watching cool new music videos? Here are some recent favorites. Games – “Shadows In Bloom” Directed by Weirdcore. Stateless – “Ariel” Created by FIELD. Cee Lo Green – “Bright Lights Bigger City” The Octopus Project - “Hallucinists” Directed by Wiley Wiggins. Ratatat [...]

Friday Music Video Round Up (11/5/2010)

Written by Peter. Posted on November 5, 2010. No comments.
Friday is supposed to be the fun day at work, so why not spend some of your day watching cool new music videos? Here are some recent favorites. Yours Truly Presents: Warpaint - ”Bees” Weekend – “Monday Morning / Monongah, WV” Directed by Kevin Johnson and Shaun Durkan of Weekend La Sera – “Never Come Around” Directed by Brady [...]

Friday Music Video Round Up (10/29/2010)

Written by Peter. Posted on October 29, 2010. No comments.
Friday is supposed to be the fun day at work, so why not spend some of your day watching cool new music videos? James Blake – “Limit To Your Love” Directed by Martin de Thurah. Kanye West – “Runaway” The Books – “I Didn’t Know That” Directed by Nick Zammuto Kisses – “Kisses” Directed by Julia Bembenek Star Slinger – “1987″ [...]

FAIL: Band Blocks 101 Freeway For Publicity Stunt

Written by Peter. Posted on October 13, 2010. No comments.
Some people believe any publicity is good publicity, but something tells me that won’t work for the band Imperial Stars. These morons took their publicity stunt a little too far when they…well…BLOCKED THE 101 FREEWAY IN LOS ANGELES! Now, all three of the band members are in jail and they probably have more enemies today [...]

Stuck in Transit – Filming LA’s Live Music Scene

Written by Peter. Posted on October 8, 2010. No comments.
Stuck In Transit is a brand new video blog started by some friends of Urgent Content living in Los Angeles. The idea is to capture performances of emerging indie artists performing in LA and then have a very casual and fun interview with them after the show. So far they’ve featured some really cool videos [...]

Friday Music Video Round Up

Written by Peter. Posted on October 1, 2010. No comments.
Here are some of the best music videos from this week! Deerhunter – Helicopter El Guincho – Bombay (Major NSFW) Tame Impala – Lucidity Local Natives – Wide Eyes

@Audiodraft crowdsources original music

Written by jewel. Posted on October 1, 2010. No comments.
AudioDraft is hopping on the crowdsourcing bandwagon, leveraging a contest-model as a platform for helping musicians collaborate online.  Hailing from Finland, the founders of the company have developed a platform that allows businesses or individuals holding a composition-contest on their site.  They use open source technology as a way to help musicians collaborate online easily; [...]

Video of the day: “Barbra Streisand” and Duck Sauce

Written by jewel. Posted on September 29, 2010. No comments.
/Barbra Streisand (music video) Duck Sauce/ Turntablists Armand Van Helden and A-Track, AKA “Duck Sauce,” have only been releasing music for a year, but already individually have sold a resume of bangers under their belts.  The video for “Barbra Streisand” is an accomplishment in its own right, capturing the spirit of New York, in which real [...]

Weezer’s YouTube Invasion Explained

Written by Peter. Posted on September 22, 2010. 1 Comment.
YouTube’s blog featured an article on Monday that goes behind the scenes, explaining Weezer’s recent viral success surrounding the release of their latest album Hurley. The post is from Ben Patterson, founder of digital marketing and distribution platform DashGo, Inc, who’s company developed the concept to feature Weezer on the channels of several popular YouTube stars. [...]

Radiohead Debuts Fan-Made Live Concert Film

Written by Peter. Posted on September 13, 2010. No comments.
Last year a group of Radiohead fans teamed up to film their concert in Prague using a bunch of Flip cameras. The ideas was to capture the band from many different angles and compile the footage to create a full-length video of the show. Fortunately, the band OK’d the video and even provided mastered audio [...]

New Das Racist Music Video/Video Game

Written by Peter. Posted on September 4, 2010. No comments.
Oddball hip hop crew Das Racist just put out a clever music video that also happens to be a kick ass 8-bit video game. Click here to get in some play time while you bump the new track “Who’s That? Broooown” over and over. If you’re not into gaming then check out the regular video [...]