Archive for February, 2007

Feb 21 2007

Music Tips: Bluetooth Headphones - Small with Great Sound

Hey, check out the new In-The-Ear earphones by Etymtic Research. They cost $200 bucks, but if you want great sound and need a discreet way to listent o your jams at work or school, these suckers are well worth the money. Try on a pair of the earphones. They are Bluetooth so no wires to give you away. They look a little strange, but they are the smallest wearable stereo with high-accuracy sound reproduction and full noise exclusion. They’re very small so they’re able to fit in your purse or pocket. Each earphone wieghs less than half an ounce; one contains the battery and other the circuit, antenna and controls. The Ety8s are supported completely by the ear canal - with no external support required - for comfortable long-term use.

Check them out here at www.etymotic.com

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Feb 20 2007

Speilberg & Burnett Plan Reality Show For New Film Talent

Director Steven Spielberg and reality television producer, Mark Burnett are partnering to produce a new Fox reality series in search of new directorial talent. Called On The Lot, this show will look for aspiring directors from around the world. The Grand Prize is no joke - a cool 1 million dollar development deal at Dreamworks. The Internet is coming into it’s own and this reality show is geared right for it. Candidates material is available for review and vote on their website prior to airing. www.thelot.com

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Feb 14 2007

Music Tips: We Hear Music All The Time

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When I was in high school the favorite hang out after school was the pool hall in our small town. I cannot think of a day when I did not hear melodics. Dont fear that if your child learns how to play one that theyll be limited on the different types of score that they can play. My wife is a fiddler, I play the accordion, my older son plays harmonica and a little guitar, and my daughter is just vicious on the banjo. Songs that you can play on the harmonica have a lot of style, and if your child learns how to play one it teaches them so many other things.

You can listen to unedited old time radio programs on CD, cassette or even in the newest format, MP3 files. While some CDs and cassettes may cost about $10. I mean, as far as it goes for me, rock and roll is about experimentation, and learning yourself with your friend. Sure, you can benefit from a drumming lesson or whatever, but really spending your summer in a place where they try to teach you rock sounds kind of weak to me.

Mandolin teaches subtlety, but he had no interest in even trying a guitar lesson, to say nothing of a mandolin lesson. Theyre also cheaper in price, running on an average of $50. They have to vote on which piece is best, or perhaps we decide among themselves. Before the invention of the Internet, before television, radio was the only entertainment medium available besides reading a good book.

Slowly people stopped coming to the pool hall as often. Other people get drum lessons online, which is even sillier. Sheet music or graphic style instruction orchestral score can be ordered from most opera score stores that sell instruments, or over the Internet. The orchestral score we listen to today is largely determined by the five companies noted.

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Feb 04 2007

Angels & Airwaves

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Tom DeLonge originally from the group Blink-182 has formed a stellar group, put together a totally new sound and has hit the market with the same verve and passion of Blink-182. Angels & Airwaves is in the process of releasing their second album, so if you loved “We Don’t Need To Whisper” get ready for their second. And if you like Alternative music that’s a blend of electronic and guitars, check out this band that played for Microsoft at the launch of their new software, Vista! Talk about taking it to the next level.

Tom DeLonge wishes comfort for his fans as they listen to “We Don’t Need To Whisper” complete with headphones on, maybe sitting on the floor or leaning against the bed. That’s how he expects that you’d get the full effect of the music of Angels and Airwaves.

DeLonge from Blink-182 fame went from the San Diego suburbs to the top of the world with the band selling over 20 million records worldwide and winning an assortment of MTV awards. With such notable happenings as Robert Smith of the Cure singing on the band’s last album and Peter Townshend tipping his hat to them on stage at the San Diego show, success was evident and very definitely shining its star over the group.

Now with this new venture, Angels and Airwaves, making its debut in May 2006, and the coming of the second album now in production, he’s recruited the best. Making up the stellar quartet, Box Car Racer guitarist David Kennedy, bassist Ryan Sinn, drum maestro Atom Willard as well as DeLonge. They have stepped away from the pop-punk hard rock scene into a more alternative blend of electronics and guitars mixed to give you a new, dynamic and very different sound.

The title, “We Don’t Need To Whisper”, came literally from DeLonge doing a mike check when the group was starting their sessions. Inspiration for their first album came from a myriad of sources including but definitely not limited to Stanley Kubrick’s film, 2001, pasting pictures of dying people and burning cities on the walls to symbolize the two ends of humanity - the hope of space and all its beauty and infinity and the horror of what we as a species are capable of in killing, maiming and burning our own kind. It was the extremes and the depiction made up the core of this first album. The album tells a story and DeLonge offers cliffnotes - a look into the minds of the band as they created it.

Recently flown to New York to play a surprise show for everybody at Microsoft to help launch their new Windows Vista Software, AVA wowed the folks at this software giant with their new sound. In attendance was Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer who opened the show and launch, and he was joined by Bill Gates, Todd Bradley, etc. to launch the new software. The music was from their debut album.

Angels and Airwaves are hard at work on their second record utilizing the full capacity of the Macbeth recording studio. If their first album is any indicator, their next release is going to be a real blast. DeLonge states that there are no holds barred on this next album and that with a completely new group, the sky’s the limit.

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