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Walken  #
Tuesday, 10 Apr 2001 01:06PM
Subject URL: Walken

We have a plan. Walken (the band) plan to record a demo soon. A real demo in a real studio with real money. Most likely 3 songs max.

Songs are most likely to be 'Glory' and 'Lucy', with choice of 'Lover's Lane', 'City Loop', 'Ego' and some others in any time we have left. We're practice running this long-weekend so get everything right, then again to get our bassplayer up to scratch then rush rush rush, we'll have some demos.

It will be interesting to see just how much better these demos sound to those recorded at home...


Radio MTV.com  #
Tuesday, 10 Apr 2001 11:22AM
Subject URL: Radio MTV.com

About a year ago I really wanted a service that was just like the radio but more. I wanted a little screen with info on the artist/album/track being played. I wanted relevant links. I wanted a buy button. My original idea was a radio in the car. If you wanted a track you pushed a button and it was save to your radio to be played whenever you wanted. Or at least ago a few more times then you could arrange to buy the CD or something.

Well, MTV seems to be doing pretty much that... (without the in car radio bit obviously). Radio MTV.com is a little embedded Windows Media Player with album image, artist links and a buy button which at the moment links to sonicnet.com's CD sale service (which includes subscription to band info mailinglists etc... value add! *cough*) but will acording to the article above, include digital sales/downloads.

Interestingly this isn't a traditional streaming radio station (ie. live). It's individual tracks streamed on demand. You can skip tracks you don't like. Unfortunately every four or so tracks you're thumped with an advertisement (between 30-60 seconds long) that you can't skip, then a 10 second 'you're on Radio MTV.com' announcement (although mine was Bjork saying it so they're forgiven), then more music. That and the music sucked. The only decent track was from Moby's Play and it was crap.

Still, it's the best I've seen so far. No special stand alone player (if needing IE5 and WMP doesn't count as stand alone) like Virgin Radio or Listen.com's ideas...


If only there were an off button for the voices in my head..  #
Tuesday, 10 Apr 2001 00:05AM