I’ve been getting a lot of Google search traffic from people searching for jazz trumpeter Owen Nestor. I heard from Todd that one of those persons found the MP3s that I’ve put up here and hired Owen to play a gig on New Years. While I’m happy for Owen, (sound’s like somebody owes me my agent fee!!) I’m even happier that the site is working out like that.
I’ll have more when I get the details. Peace
I was just poring thru my RSS feed from HRTownSquare.com and found this listing for a new Hampton Roads Music site.
Hampton Roads first regional music internet broadcast, featuring local and regional music and comedy, at http://www.hrmusic.tv
This weekly half hour online show features original performances taped in our studio, remote location videos from entertainment venues in the region, and Old School videos of performances from earlier decades. We will also present comedy and interviews with relevant artists from the area. Local musicians can contact us if they would like to appear on the show.
I wasn’t able to get the player to work here at the office, but I’ll check it later once I get home.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, the EpicHoney Hampton Roads Event Calender. We’ve gone thru and added many of the open mics and various musicans that we know about, as well as arts, comedy and other things that we know goings on about. We’ll use this calendar to let people know what’s going on around our neck of the woods and to invite people to events that we plan on going to.
There’s a permanent link to the most recently added events and calendar on the top right of every page on this site, next to the ‘about us’ link.
Thanks and let me hear some feedback.
A few days ago I stumbled across thesixtynine.com, a website that bills itself as ‘a musical adventure’ and is a place to go to discover some great new music.
When you sign up for an account they give you a number of points that you can use to ‘bump’ or ‘discover’ music on the site. Bumping a track moves it to the top of the genre lists and costs a point, but discovering music costs a large number of points but if people bump a track that you’ve discovered you win points back. I’ve only been playing with this site for the past day or two, and it seems pretty interesting. Each user gets their own profile page from which they can share music and playlists. Here’s ours.
I’ve been listening thru the dance, electronic and hip-hop genres and I’m pretty impressed at the quality of mp3s that I’ve found. I also like the way that the music continues playing as you click thru the site uninterrupted.
While the site’s got a ways to go to match Pandora and Last.fm, which I’ll be covering in more detail in the future, I think thesixtynine is worthy enough to share with you now.
I’ll be working with some of my musician friends to get stuff up online on this site. If you’re reading this and need some help getting your stuff up let me know.
