nuTsie.com
By chris | May 9, 2008
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Your music in more places:
nuTsie placeshifts your music to any web-connected PC and many mobile phones including Blackberry devices.
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“SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwire - May 7, 2008) - nuTsie today announced the availability of nuTsie on Facebook. The nuTsie Facebook application allows users to play, share and explore the music that matters most to them — full tracks from their iTunes libraries and their friends’ iTunes libraries.
The nuTsie Facebook app allows users to:
– Feature and listen to their favorite iTunes playlists on their
Facebook profile pages
– Listen to their friends’ iTunes playlists
– Highlight their top 5 playlists on their profile pages
– Discover new music based on the music in their playlists and their
friends’ playlists
“nuTsie is about the music. There are over twelve hundred music apps on Facebook and not one of them delivers,” said Dave Dederer, Vice President of Business Development at Melodeo and founding member of the GRAMMY-nominated, multi-platinum rock band The Presidents of the United States of America. Dederer added, “In fact, this just in — findings from a study released last week noted that most Facebook apps are silly and pointless. Blow off the goofy apps that will just drive you crazy and go nuTsie for music with us.”
nuTsie is a synchronized web and mobile music service that allows anyone to upload and listen to their iTunes music in hi-fi quality on any web-connected PC, mobile phone or BlackBerry device, as well as explore other users’ playlists and share music with friends.
In addition to providing anytime, anywhere access to a user’s iTunes library, nuTsie offers powerful music recommendations and music discovery. nuTsie’s proprietary recommendation engine adds new music based on collaborative filtering of many playlists, which results in highly relevant song recommendations guaranteed not to be in the user’s own library. nuTsie users also can easily find and listen to new music by searching and browsing by artist, member, genre and song title.
nuTsie recently announced the commercial availability of its service on BlackBerry devices.”
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My Bloody Valentine to play San Francisco in September
By chris | May 7, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Concourse Exhibition Center
unfortunately it’s the worst venue in the city…
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The Mary Onettes, this Thursday at Popscene in SF
By chris | May 6, 2008
Popscene (330 Ritch), San Francisco’s premiere indie rock night club, brings you The Mary Onettes this Thursday. You could’ve seen The Editors (before they played the Fillmore) or The Killers at 330 Ritch, which is about the size of my house, in 2006.
Recommended if you like: Franz Ferdinand, Echo & The Bunnymen
The Mary Onettes are a Swedish Indie Rock band formed in the town of Jönköping, in 2000. Inspired by guitar pop from the 80’s and indie bands from the 90’s, The Mary Onettes were successful in releasing one EP with Sony/BMG before being dropped. Their sound has been likened to Echo & The Bunnymen, The Smiths, The Cure, and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
The Mary Onettes have since been picked up by the Labrador record label, where they released their debut EP Lost. Labrador claims the EP to be 2006’s. Their 10-track debut album “The Mary Onettes” was released in 2007.
10 PM
$10
10 year old girls
myspace profile
www.themaryonettes.net
Labrador
Concrete
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beatunes.com
By chris | May 2, 2008
BeaTunes’ powerful inspection feature let’s you clean up your iTunes track data in a way unrivaled by any other software on the market today. Easily find typos or different spellings of artists’ names, automatically fill in the album artist names, and much more. No more R.E.M. and REM in your iPod’s artist list!
beaTunes can even help you to find the titles of tracks that have no artist or title associated with them.
And once you have a clean collection, the built-in playlist generator works even better.
Here are some more examples of what you can do with beaTunes:
- Automatically determine BPM (beats per minute) and store the result in iTunes
- Manually determine BPM and store the result in iTunes
- Inspect and fix your music library (typos, wrong genre etc.)
- Sort existing playlists so that matching songs succeed each other
- Create matchlists, i.e. playlists based on one or more sample songs
- Browse songs from your music collection that match the currently selected song
- Discover albums that aren’t in your music collection, but would complement it
- Keep up to date through Amazon™ album charts
- Automatically set start and end times of songs based on their volume
- Categorize songs by their sound color
- Build playlists per drag and drop
- Create blog entries on blogger.com with your favorite playlist or songs
- Add del.icio.us like tags to your songs
- Look up track metadata using acoustic fingerprints
- Detect the language of lyrics already stored in iTunes
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Pyramids
By chris | April 29, 2008
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PacificUV
By chris | April 18, 2008
listen to more on their official site here.
www.pacificuv.com
myspace profile
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The Thousand Names, tonight at the Edinburgh Castle in SF
By chris | April 17, 2008
Tonight at the Edinburgh Castle, for $5, go see local band ‘The Thousand Names’ who are opening for A Sunny Day In Glasgow.
Recommended if you like:
Modest Mouse, Beta Band
I’m not saying they sound “just like” these bands. This is just a reference point. If you like these bands, you might dig this band. If you disagree or if you can think of a better suggestion, please post it in the comments.
Thanks to Jason from The Thousand Names for sending me the following mp3’s. They are “demos”…
EDINBURGH CASTLE PUB
950 GEARY ST
SAN FRANCISCO, USA
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Curve
By chris | April 16, 2008
I struggle sometimes with thinking that I should only post about new bands. Many people are younger music fans and aren’t as obsessive about it as I presume them to be. They don’t research the influences of their favorites. They don’t venture beyond what they know.
So I will probably post a little more about older bands. Bands that are no longer recording. So with that in mind…
If you’ve never listened to Curve. You should give them a try. They aren’t too far removed from today’s sounds. Alternative/indie rock/pop that is danceable.
Recommended if you like:
Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“Considering Curve’s towering monolith of guitar noise, dance tracks, dark goth, and airy melodies, it’s strange that their two core members — guitarist Dean Garcia and vocalist Toni Halliday — met through David Stewart of Eurythmics. Halliday met Stewart while she was a teenager and they remained friends for years; Garcia played on Eurythmics’ Touch and Be Yourself Tonight. The two played together in State of Play, who released one album and two singles in the late ’80s to little notice. After the failure of that band, Garcia and Halliday parted ways only to reunite in the beginning of the ’90s. Renaming themselves Curve, Halliday and Garcia released three EPs that became independent hits in 1991. Although they were critically acclaimed as well, some members of the U.K. press attacked Halliday for not being a genuine member of the indie scene. Despite the negative press, their next EP and first album, 1992’s Doppelganger, hit number one on the U.K. indie charts. By the time of the following year’s Cuckoo, Curve had added two guitarists and a drummer, with Garcia moving to bass. Cuckoo was noisier and more experimental than their previous releases, although it did have a couple of pop songs that were tighter than their usual singles. However, the album didn’t make as big of a splash in the U.K. as previous releases; Curve split several months after its release, only to reform in 1997 with the Chinese Burn EP. The full-length Come Clean followed a year later and “Coming Up Roses became a moderate hit among college radio. Three years later, Curve issued the Internet-only Open Day at the Hate Fest. This album collected MP3’s and B-sides and was a limited edition package for eager fans awaiting a proper studio album. After battling contractual obligations with Estupendo/Universal, Curve returned to form for 2001’s Gift, their fourth album in 10 years. Another self-released disc came in 2002, and a two-disc compilation entitled The Way of Curve followed in 2004.”
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Curve - Hung Up
Curve - Weekend
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Magnetic Morning
By chris | April 16, 2008
Set your clocks for April 19th. The debut EP from Magnetic Morning (formerly known as The Setting Suns) (more popularly known as Interpol’s <drummer>Sam Fogarino</drummer> and Swervedriver’s <singer-guitar>Adam Franklin</singer-guitar>)
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The Foals
By chris | April 15, 2008
myspace.com/foals
wearefoals.com
The Foals - Balloon
The Foals will be playing Popscene at 330 Ritch in San Francisco on May 22nd.
West Coast Dates:
22 May 2008 Pop Scene @ 330 Ritch San Francisco
24 May 2008 The Troubadour West Hollywood
25 May 2008 Brick By Brick San Diego
28 May 2008 Doug Fir Lounge Portland
29 May 2008 Richard’s On Richards Cabaret Vancouver
30 May 2008 Neumo’s Seattle
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