OpenLBL is a music community that allows everyone to talk about the latest happening in the world of music. OpenLBL will be offering free music to the world on a daily basis. Artists and readers have the ability to submit article to the site. Anyone can create a group on a specific topic (eg. House), then discuss their latest favourite house tracks, new house music, happenings in the industry. Additionally, you can comment on the latest news, create discussion with other members, friend and email other members, or even just post links and create wiki pages about your favourite tunes.
OpenLBL combines groups, forums and wiki’s, which will allow users to discuss anything music.
RouteNote enjoys being involved in all things music, both superb and tragic. I’ve decided to throw out a weekly video (where it can be found) of awful tunes that could arguably be cult favourite’s for a giggle.
This tragic attempt at something to do with signing is from The Hoff. Scouring YouTube and the Hoffs own site, I Couldn’t find the proper video. It Turns out the song has become “Unavailable. Embedding disabled by request”. Probably for the best. One of the best move’s Hoff ever made next to Bay-watch of course.
ooh, jump in my car, I wanna ta-ake you home
jump in my car, it’s too far to walk on your ow-own
jump in my car, I wanna ta-ake you home
C’mon and jump in my car, it’s way too far to walk on your ow-own
Well maybe I wi-ill
Ah, that’s better now, your talkin’ sense
But you best keep still
Well, if you like I’ll just put up a fence
No need to get smart
Well alright we’ll soon be on our way
We better start
What for?
Because it’s such a long way
Why, where d’you live?
I live down south, it’s roughly eighty-four miles
Hey slow down, you must be jokin’ there behind that cute smile
Oh, no I’m not
Well, if you’re not there’s only one thing to say
And what’s that?
Get out the car, get on your way
Get out of my car
But you just said that you’d take me home
it’s just too far
But there’s no way that I can get there alone
I couldn’t care less
Maybe I could see you next week
But you look a mess
But look who’s talkin’, you’ve got no right to speak
Get out of my car
You told me that you were a really nice guy
Well I aint
yeah,Get out of my car
Get out
Get out of my car
I’m going to be doing things a little differently this week. Instead of presenting your ungrateful little faces with 2 or 3 artists that I hope you will like, I am going to give you 1 artist that I think you should listen to because they’ve caught my attention for all the right reasons and another that represents everything I dislike about music. I don’t know how long this method will continue, but hopefully it will make these weekly postings a little more interesting.
If you would like your music to be featured in future posts then please get in touch; luke@routenote.com or on twitter @monkeyhotel
Whenever I hear someone telling me about a songwriter that spends most of their time alone in a bedroom recording all their music themselves I uncontrollably roll my eyes and make a noticeable sigh, expecting to hear some idiot whinging about their pathetic life over some strumming. Robin Plays Chords (Robin Johan Jax) has been a wonderful surprise to me this week. His songs feel homemade in all the right ways and when listening to them you feel as though you are being openly invited into his life.
The mixes feel very rough, and in places some instruments are very obviously sequenced with very little attempt to make them sound human, but all of this adds to the intimacy of the record. Please take a listen to his album Red Admiral LP below, visit his MySpace page and follow on twitter.
And now for something considerably less pleasant. Before I go any further, I want to say that Macchina Del Tempo are obviously fairly competent musicians and are quite good at playing around with meter and harmony. Sadly, top musicians very rarely make great composers or writers of music, and my god is that apparent here.
Describing themselves infuriatingly as a “Progressive Jazz Fusion” band, the shortest instrumental number on their MySpace page stands at a staggering 7 minutes and 34 seconds.
Clever chord changes, playing across the pulse and the odd adding of a beat is all very interesting to the band, I’m sure, but I can’t see its purpose other than the enjoyment of playing it – if you’re a complete nerd. If that’s why they make this sonic shambles then fine, I hope they’re having a blast, but I find it hard to believe that anyone could honestly sit through all ten minutes of the track below ‘Long Way To Go’ without developing a small desire to drown at least once.
Good morning dear readers, I trust this week is treating you well?
As it’s Wednesday I suppose I should give you some new music to listen to. A bit of a mixed bag today so please give them both a chance and try to enjoy yourself in the process.
If you would like your music to be featured in a future post then please get in touch; luke@routenote.com or on twitter @monkeyhotel
The first artist I’d like to show you is a duo currently working on their debut album Leaving Atlantis.
A really nice mixture traditional songwriting seasoned with electronics, these few tracks should be just about enough to get you interested in learning more about the band, and you can do exactly that by visiting their website.
How do you follow up delightful songwriting? With some extremely creative Canadian progressive house. Although Snork doesn’t describe himself as progressive I can’t think of a better word to describe his inventive creations. Dance music at its best should be an amalgamation of ideas that allow a track to drive itself, and Snork does this perfectly. Why not take a little listen to these three numbers and see what you think?
MTV has bounced back from the disappointment of the last few years and it is now the largest online music destination according to ComScore. The MTV Music Group had over 53 million unique visitors for August, which included sites like MTV.com, VH1.com and CMT.com combined. It’s a 165% year-over-year increase.
Vevo came in second on the list at 49.3 million, MySpace Music third at 26.3 million, AOL Music fourth at 21.9 million, and ToneFuse Media fifth at 19.1 million.
MTV says it is working on additional digital music initiatives set to launch before the end of the year, including an in-development new music site.
One of our users has uploaded this video to his youtube page, demonstrating how easy it is to have your music digitally distributed. Why not give it a watch and have a little think about it?
The magazine industry is in heavy decline and the latest casualty is music magazine Paste. Paste magazine announced yesterday that it will no longer publish a print edition.
“Struggles with mounting debt were made public last year when our readers responded with generosity to save the magazine. But the prolonged downturn of the ad market has forced a hiatus”, according to a post on the site. Moving to web-only has hurt other publications, but the magazine’s staff vows to fight on. “Paste, while considering strategic alternatives, is focusing on its digital assets, including PasteMagazine.com.”
“We thank all of those who have shown such tremendous support to a vision of independent media focused on Signs of Life in Music, Film & Culture, including subscribers, advertisers, writers, photographers, illustrators, publicists, record labels, movie studios, book & game publishers and others in the press.”
Good morning and welcome to your bank holiday weekend. I hope you’re doing something fun. I’m working every day of it so whilst I hope you’re doing something fun, I also hope it gets ruined by British bank holiday weather. If you do find yourself stuck in a flat watching the rain you’ll probably want some music to make your disappointment slightly easier to swallow.
A good place to start this weekend is with Jimmy Eat World’s new single ‘My Best Theory’. I had completely forgotten that this band even existed and to be honest the song isn’t my thing at all, but they have always seemed like such nice guys and been so good with the internet that I had to add this link. Please listen.
Next is an album mash up by The Glitch Mob. If you don’t know much about them, I suggest you visit their website by clicking here. Here they have condensed an album by Everything Everything into one track.
The internet is a wonderful thing. It has liberated the small artist and gifted them complete freedom over the release of their work. The result of this is artists who would have 10 years ago had no chance of building up a fan base outside of their home town can build intimate relationships through their music with people living anywhere in the world. What an age we live in! Music being in ‘the cloud’ excites me more than music being in a live venue. This is why I was delighted yesterday to hear that Alex Ljung had made it onto the Top 30 Power Players Under 30 Billboard list: Where then is the downside to all this modern age tomfoolery? Well, with such freedom artists hypothetically have nothing stopping them from releasing as much music as they want, which *might* cloud their judgment and on occasion disable their quality control filter. As a result a good artist could have their image tainted by releasing a few too many duds that a record label may have advised against.
Hello Inkysmudge! Does any of the above sound familiar?
The band have released 4 albums/E.P’s in 9 months according to their website. They are a band that I think perfectly demonstrate my above point. I don’t dislike Inkysmudge by any stretch of the imagination, at their best they reminded me of early Eels and seem extraordinarily charismatic.
Linked below is a track that I was emailed by a member of the band which he described as “the most representative” example of their work. Fine. It’s a perfectly good song that I’m sure many of you will like. The problem is that if you go to their website you will find far too many songs that sound pretty darn similar.
My initial aim was to review a record of theirs, but sadly I found all four too hard to tell apart and released too close together. Instead I published this rather unkind attack, which Inkysmudge certainly don’t deserve to have aimed entirely at them.
I hope that my thoughts have at least entertained you.
Up to anything exciting this weekend? Maybe a garden party, going out clubbing or just hanging out on your own at home starring at your bum? All of these things I’m sure would be improved with some new music attacking your ear drum.
Here are some of my favourite free SoundCloud play lists that I’ve been made aware of this week.
If you would like something to be included in further blog posts then please get in touch; luke@routenote.com or @monkeyhotel
First, here’s NME’s playlist of the 50 best new bands from 2010. There’s some really good stuff in here, the highlight for me being Darwin Deez (number 44). This is a good, reliable playlist that will happily whir away in the background whilst you get up to whatever sordid activities you choose to over the weekend.
Next, an artist I plugged earlier this week in my music suggestions, Ambeson. If you did the honourable thing and bothered to listen to the album I uploaded earlier in the week and liked it, then why not try his remix playlist? Varied, eclectic and relaxing stuff. Ideal for that post clubbing chill out session (yes, sometimes I like to talk like a moron, what of it?).
And finally some Danish dance music. Here is the upcoming releases set from Danish based indie label Melonsound. Another solid playlist that you should be able to happily play in the background at any social gathering without too many complaints.
