Airborne Toxic Event – “Sometime Around Midnight”

Posted by Albert Costill on Jan 27, 2009 in Music, Song of the Week | Comments

If you just so happen to still listen to alternative stations, whether on FM or satellite, you’ve probably heard “Sometime Around Midnight” by Airborne Toxic Event. Not a revolutionary song, but it’s catchy and a breath of fresh air on radio. And, it gets stuck in your head.

What I really like about this song, and band for that matter, is how they came out of basically nowhere.

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Killers Working on Covers Album

Posted by Albert Costill on Jan 26, 2009 in General, News | Comments

With Day & Age only a few months old, The Killers are already planning their next release. Drummer Ronnie Vannucci recently told Q that the band will be working on a covers album.

Each member of the band will be choosing three tracks to cover, Vannucci has chosen Rod Stewarts’ “Young Turks” and, tracks by Genesis and Tom Waits. No other info on what the other guys are eying up just yet.

You may be thinking how are the guys going to record this album with current touring obligations? Very simple. Vannucci has landed some on-the-road recording equipment, so they can obviously record the tracks while their on tour, which is very cool.

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Cubane’s debut, C8H8, Set To Blow Up Your Speakers This Weekend

Posted by Eric Hebert on Jan 23, 2009 in Rock | Comments

With a surprisingly warm Friday to start off the weekend, and because I’m just hours away from seeing Scott Weiland at the TLA, I’m in a pretty rocking mood.

Also might be because I’ve been checking out the new debut album from Newark, Delaware’s very own Cubane, entitled C9H8.

The band will be playing a local hometown show to release the album tomorrow, so it’s only fitting that I send you off with some tunes to check out over the weekend. The album should be available digitally very soon, so be sure to check out the Cubane site or MySpace page for updates.

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Pushing & Pulling Music Discovery: Which Are You Focused On?

Posted by Eric Hebert on Jan 22, 2009 in Marketing | Comments

There is quite an interesting discussion over at the Music Think Tank that everybody in the music biz needs to give a read, perhaps even twice: 2009 – The Pull Music Paradigm Shift Emerges.

In the article, Bruce Warila discusses the Push VS Pull mentality that is currently at odds with each other in the war over the traditional music business and the new digital realm of music discovery.

Here’s a bit of a breakdown over some of the underlying principles that Bruce is talking about:

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Signal Patterns Launches Pioneering Social and Music Discovery Web Applications

Posted by Eric Hebert on Jan 21, 2009 in News | Comments

I recently was contacted by Signal Patterns to check out their neat new music discovery applications, which feature insightful listening surveys to figure out what kind of tunes you’re inclined to like or dislike. The following is their press release regarding the background of their development:

Signal Patterns, developers of psychology-based social Web applications, has announced its official launch and publicly released its first two Web applications: Personality Patterns and Music
Patterns.

The applications are now available on SignalPatterns.com, a first-of-its-kind website where people use professional psychology tools, developed by leading PhD researchers and scientists, to discover psychological insights, connect to other like-minded individuals, and for content and music discovery.

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