poptronics Music Review Database About THE BOMBER JACKET is a new media outlet dedicated to bringing quality music journalism to an international audience. After consistently hearing about how much particular music publications control the lives and success of various indie bands, and after stumbling upon blog after blog that didn’t seem to care about the quality of writing, we decided to start a new website that would attempt to produce fair music journalism. It’s frustrating that a negative review in a widely read magazine from one unknown writer can determine how difficult it is for an American band to tour in Europe. TBJ is a place where fellow writers work against these commonalities while publishing reviews, interviews, essays, and profiles about the music we love. Another goal of the website is to have writers in different countries contribute so that we can publish articles about smaller, local acts that otherwise would not necessarily have a chance to get international press.
Street Tease ALL SOUL AND FUNK Serge Gainsbourg - La Melody Nelson - 2 Ballade de Melody Nelson Ufunk.net - Gadgets japonais et Arts insolites Beats Music is launching January 21st -- here's a sneak peek That's Beats' new streaming service. No surprise, of course. Seems like the Jimmy Iovine / Dr. Dre's red headphone-pushing company has been eyeing the space since the World Class Wreckin' Cru days. Last month, the company offered up a bit of information in the form of an online teaser, noting that it would finally be dropping in January. The exact date, it turns out, is the 21st, though the company happily let us download an iOS teaser of the offering (it'll be available on "nearly all the major platforms" at launch according to the company). The first part of the solution is the "on-boarding" process. The result of that initial curation is a page full of artwork not dissimilar from Spotify's current front page, offering up songs and playlists with big Play icons in the middle. At launch, the service will offer up 20 million tracks for $10 a month. Comments
How To Get Your Music Signed By Top Record Labels In a musician’s career there are few milestones more important than that first shiny release on a top record label. Despite the demise of vinyl and CDs and the ease with which artists can launch their own digital label these days, most aspiring producers still dream of seeing their name etched on a 12-inch record from a respectable imprint. It is a badge of honour: a sign of legitimacy and relevance in an industry still very much driven by prestige. But how do you get your music signed by a top record label in 2013? The good news is, if you make a great record and you get it into the hands of the right person there’s every chance that it’ll be released and that will lead to bigger and better things. We decided to pose these questions and more to key label managers from four top records labels split across the spectrum of the electronic music industry. Leon Oakey is perhaps the most connected label manager in all of underground house and techno. First of all, make a good record. Ranacat
Abstrait ≠ Concret — ≠ Une actualité originale. Mais pas seulement… About : Dust & Grooves ~ Vinyl. Music. Culture Dust & Grooves is a photography and interview project documenting vinyl collectors in their most natural and intimate environment: the record room. It all started out several years ago as nothing more than a way for photographer Eilon Paz to make use of his idle hours. Adrift in Brooklyn after emigrating from Israel, Eilon—a record collector on the side—thought it might be fun to start taking photos of people whose record collections were both larger and weirder than his own. Adopting this as his personal project, he began traveling the world, from Australia to Cuba and Argentina to Ghana, in pursuit of intriguing and memorable subjects. In the summer of 2012, Eilon launched a Kickstarter campaign that funded his road trip to shoot collectors throughout the American heartland, and since then, the project has been embraced by many friends and supporters who have volunteered to work with Eilon along the way.
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