When Steve Jobs announced the launch of the Garage Band app along with the iPad 2 last week, he said: "I can't even tell you how many hours teens are going to spend with this, teaching themselves about music".
Basis is also announcing today that it is appointing an advisory board that includes some medical, social, and gaming big whigs to help oversee the impending launch of the Basis Band.
The robgaze remix coincides with the 25th anniversary of Nowhere, Ride's debut, and is launched ahead of the band's nine-date UK tour which begins in Leeds on 11 October.
Now, ahead of launching the band's 16th album, Third World Pyramid, he talks about being a dad, the ancient Chinese military treatise The Art of War and America's culture of fear.
Video footage and photographs from shows at the Minneapolis Orpheum Theatre and the Milwaukee Eagles Ballroom (showing them performing "Disposable Teens" and "The Fight Song") were posted on the band's website November 2. From November 1 to November 13, the UK division of Nothing/Interscope Records held a contest to promote the album and launch the UK version of the band's website.
As a part of today's public launch, the band Grouplove is offering free access to its sheet music, including the singles "Tongue Tied" and "Itchin' On A Photograph," and will choose three recording submissions from other Chromatik users to give personal feedback to.
In exchange for the key to unlock the content, record labels can choose to charge or give the song away free if the friend provides, say, demographic details about himself.Another example of DRM in use is Arista's recently launched web channel for fans of the band Boyz II Men.
New startup KickNote, founded by Brian Erickson, will be launching a "Battle Of The Bands" event this summer that will allow people to watch, and vote, online.
A Grammy-winning producer, Lillywhite is a legendarily successful British producer who has been instrumental in the launch of numerous bands, including Ultravox and of course U2. (Lillywhite produced their first three albums, including War and songs on everything from their world-beating classic The Joshua Tree to How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb).
