What Jello Biafra is listening to these days
Posted on 14. Nov, 2008 by H. Anne Lightly in Blog
Scalloped fretboard guitar anyone?
“The sparkling presence and sustain you hear is not an amplified acoustic with a lot of reverb, but a scalloped fretboard guitar. Matt’s the only person I know who can play one. Most rock musicians I’ve mentioned it to seem shocked that it even exists.’” – Jello Biafra, (seminal punk rock singer, Dead Kennedy front man turned spoken word activist, politician, mail recycler) ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES RECORDS
Tomorrow: Lower Class Revolt at The Knockout, San Francisco
Posted on 28. Oct, 2008 by spencer in Music
Tomorrow night, Wednesday October 29th, residents of the Bay Area should be heading down to the Knockout for the Lower Class Revolt show featuring Rademacher, Light FM and Raised By Robots!
I’ve been listening to Devil In The Woods Records’ Light FM (pictured above) pretty much all day in an effort to keep me focused on the article I’m penning on Lower Class Revolt (coming to synthesis.net soon), and Light FM’s dreamy, agitated guitar pop is helping to remind me that those folks have great taste in music (read: those people [...]
Third Eye Blind Is Too Cool For Synthesis.net
Posted on 24. Oct, 2008 by spencer in Art
I’ve just been informed that Third Eye Blind, the San Francisco band responsible for writing a catchy song about meth addiction ten years ago and haven’t done anything notable since, have decided to tell Synthesis.net to piss off.
Here I was, ready to feign interest about them. Big loss.
ParkmercedCast 1 – It’s Partytime SF
Posted on 03. Oct, 2008 by dain in How's Business, Lifestyle, Music
ParkmercedCast 1, October, 2008
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ParkmercedCast 1
Woe is me, the adventures of a hard working music industry intern #4
Posted on 04. Sep, 2008 by H. Anne Lightly in Music
Wine, weather, and water – Up until now, these were three of the primary reasons for booking a flight to the city where Tony Bennett left his heart.
Not to say that the music’s lacking here, but as far as the average Joe is concerned, it surely hasn’t received the mass-media attention of the Governator’s “come-to-Cali†commercials.
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Well music lovers, take heed! San Fran increased its music-destination profile on a sunny weekend in late August when Golden Gate Park filled up with 60,000 (60,001 including [...]
Woe is me, the adventures of a hard working music industry intern #3
Posted on 18. Aug, 2008 by H. Anne Lightly in Music
Post # 3 – To all you haters
Okay, I’m a bit fired up about some of the comments I’ve received.
First, dude, give me a break I just got into this whole blogging thing. I’m sorry I’m not as awesome as you and missed some typos. My “One-horse townâ€, London Derry, NH USA Google it! Okay, okay Vermont might take the prize for syrup, not NH but I thought I was being witty damn it!
Ever stabbed your self with fish barb that pops out from under the gills? It hurts! This [...]
Melodyne’s Direct Note Access
Posted on 07. Aug, 2008 by Dallas VonKillbot in Music, Technology
Warning: This post contains significant amount of music geek content.
The concept of auto-tuning has long been a heated debate. Any idiot with a computer, recording software and a mic can now, theoretically, create a pitch perfect vocal track. Sure, it loses the soul of the performance, but lets face it; it’s 2008 and all the soul has been sucked out of the music industry for many years. Vocal correction software is great, but it has limitations. Without access to the individual notes of chords, the it [...]
Woe is me, the adventures of a hard working music industry intern # 2
Posted on 06. Aug, 2008 by H. Anne Lightly in Music
Post # 2 “Take it from the Topâ€
I landed in San Francisco with a precise picture of the future; a collegiate digi-diva in an international port. Take about options! That is, until I saw the giant fat lady peeing a waterfall through her pants around the corner of my new apartment. I live in the dirtiest part of the city where, NO LIE, every step outside is like playing hopscotch over dirty needles! Not quite the picture that my real estate broker had painted…
Soon enough, though, [...]
