Sep 30th, 2007
How’s Your Sound Badge Sounds?
Do you know what soundbadge is? Soundbadge describe it as: a unique beat loop that sounds just like you, then wear it anywhere on and off the web Cool. So I tried it and picked up the classic hip hop tunes as a theme, fill my personality, and my sound badge sounds like below. This is the original [...]
Sep 30th, 2007
New Fresh Look of Rockstar Pundit
So this is the new look of Rockstar Pundit after a 3 hours makeover for the whole site. The old blackened site makes me feel… black, but my posts (thoughts) is not always black so i’m thinking to remove all the black colors surrounding this blog and change it into white. I just felt more confidence [...]
Sep 28th, 2007
Ville Vallo Talk About the New Album
Below videos are Ville Vallo talk about recording the new album Venus Doom which has debuted and sold 38,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 12 on The Billboard 200 chart. It’s another great album from the Finish metallers anyway.
Sep 28th, 2007
Nikki Sixx New Book (& Music)
Nikki Sixx decided not to be like Tommy Lee and has a book out The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star. There’s an interesting NS’ interview at Boston Herald about the book and upcoming music. Heroin Diaries has also reportedly debuted at number 7 on The New York Times Book Review [...]
Sep 28th, 2007
Top Earning Musicians 2006-2007
Forbes announced top earning musicians of 2006-2007. Well nothing’s new about this. Rolling Stone topped the spot with $88 millions earning, 2nd place is Madonna with $72 millions. Top income sources are touring, being big in Japan, merchandising and sponsorship. My two cent is that music downloads could slowly kills record labels while artists could sign other [...]
Sep 28th, 2007
If You Choose To Live Longer
Rockstars die young. If you want to live another 30-40 years to enjoy your wealth after years hard work, the perhaps you should visit livingto100.com. At living to100, you can take a free test by providing your health history and your lifestyle background. After complete the test, their Life Expectancy Calculator will give you suggestions [...]
Sep 28th, 2007
Everything He Touch Turns Into Magic
It’s as always poppy and yes it’s another Tom Delonge cool work with Angels and Airwaves:
Sep 28th, 2007
It’s not Working
Heck the store widget is not working on my computer even though i had installed the player required. Hope it’s working at yours.
Sep 28th, 2007
Music Business Solution
There’s a cool site Nimbit Music that can be your solution to sell your music online. You can also manage to sell your music & merchandise, add your show schedule, add your band’s bio, allowing the fans to connect with your band through newsletter and a shopping cart. This service is a free setup and they [...]
Sep 28th, 2007
Amazon MP3 Now Available
Amazon has just launched Amazon MP3, a new online digital music store selling DRM-free MP3s for $0.89 to $0.99 a la carte or $5.99 to $9.99 per album. Dude that’s as cheap or even cheaper than ITunes music store but without DRM restrictions. Featuring over two million songs from over 180,000 artists, it’s shaping up to be [...]
Sep 27th, 2007
MTV Music Awards 2007
Ok I’m late, you can call me retarded. I saw MTV Music Award 2007 last night. I didn’t watch the opening but i follow from the middle to the closing show. At the end, P. Diddy and Nelly shoot out loud presenting the last performance, which according to them will be the greatest performance evaaaaahhh’ [...]
Sep 26th, 2007
Predicting The Next Big Thing by Quantifying
Predicting the next big thing is a core skill required to be A&R. Somehow you only have your eyes, ears and the first 20 seconds demo cd to decide whether the artist will be big or not in your point of view. Well if you have the talent, or even an experience A&R want [...]
Sep 25th, 2007
Cool Trent Reznor Interview at Metal Hammer
I have more respect on Trent Reznor. No man, i’m serious. I mean, I’m no fuck-DRM-i-want-free-music-shit type online music downloader and surely i don’t get anything out off this free nor cheap music issue. I have master degree in business and i have a decent daily job so i have enough money to buy new [...]
Sep 25th, 2007
From The Blogosphere
So yeah i finally decided to jump in the blogrush bandwagon. Been there on the blogosphere for a while, and i see professional bloggers implement blogrush and wrote about it. To be honest, when i see the video demo weeks ago at their site, blogrush works like a viral mode at its best. But i don’t [...]
Sep 24th, 2007
New Era of Music Promotions?
Via HypeBot: Starbucks is going to give away 50 million tracks as it helps launch the new iTunes wireless service with Apple. From Oct. 2 to Nov. 7 customers in all 10,000 U.S. Starbucks outlets will be handed 1.5 million “Song of the Day” cards each day for redemption on iTunes. The first song featured [...]
Sep 24th, 2007
Bob Dylan Getting Viral Marketing
To promote his new album, Bob Dylan’s team seems to get viral. They have this cool and fun custom message generator to promote the album. Moreover, for Facebook users, TechEnlightenment has gone forward and made the application so you can post a custom message about Dylan on your profile. Dylan, the new album contains Bob Dylan’s ultimate [...]
Sep 23rd, 2007
Get a Local Concert at Gruvr
Found this interesting site, Gruvr. A site where you can track all your favorite bands at Google Maps. Gruvr is a local based concert tracker. By the time i’m at Kuta Bali, i couldn’t find any registered band at Gruvr. So i tried to track Foo Fighters concert (which no way they would come to [...]
Sep 23rd, 2007
Peter Criss Interview
Peter Criss had been replaced for somewhat reason as a drummer of KISS. As an old school KISS fan, i will never forget a young man with cat faced, high heels, lipstick, full of leather and spikes body sing the classic song BETH. Ya man, that’s Peter Criss. This is his page in Wikipedia and below [...]
Sep 22nd, 2007
HipHop Centered New Social Network
If you’re a hiphop fans, then i think you should check this site reviewed by KillerStartups: StreetCred is a new hip hop centered social network which already has been endorsed by the likes of Snoop Dogg, Common, and T.I. Partnerships with Warner Music and Sony are in the works to provide the network with music videos [...]
Sep 22nd, 2007
Play Your Music Videos Online
Got Killswitch Engage video from Warner Music’s latest video playing site – Play Music Videos. It’s easier to have site like You Tube so you can freely watch music videos, embed it on your site and share it with people, but if you are a big fan of Warner Music’s artists, which include many high [...]
Sep 21st, 2007
Heavy Metal Band Calls For Help
I’m posting this because i know how it feels to be minority. Heck i don’t know what they really feel under that death threat but i know how it feels to be called SATAN and i hate it! I sincerely hope AcrassicaudA can overcome this situation and survive to carry along their cool heavy metal spirit. You [...]
Sep 21st, 2007
Awkward Band Names
For years, silly names are applied to name a band. These silly names are usually also sounding awkward. There’s a cool list of cool bands with awkward sounding band names at Ear Sucker. If i could vote for the most awkward, I’ll pick CKY. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve follow them since they were with smaller [...]
Sep 20th, 2007
Brian Welch Found God
Brian ‘Head’ Welch decided to quit Korn and head his head into Christ. Below is his latest interview with The Harvest Show, a Christian television. This interview talked about his new book, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story: Part I Part II Part III
Sep 20th, 2007
I Wish I’ll Be in London
If i’m in London at November i’ll watch Sex Pistols! From NME: Sex Pistols have exclusively revealed details of a one off London gig to NME.COM today (September 18). The band are set to play Brixton Academy on November 8.
Sep 20th, 2007
THE official Marilyn Manson Absinthe
Got this from MansonUSA: The official Marilyn Manson Absinthe, aptly dubbed “Mansinthe” is now officially available for purchase online. Produced in Switzerland, Mansinthe is an authentic Absinthe, distilled from fine herbs, naturally colored and not sugared. There is just ONE Mansinthe -there is NO “sans wormwood” version! Then from Absinthe’s site: Absinthe was invented at the end of [...]
Sep 18th, 2007
Cool The Used Video
I love this video, i love The Used. Update: I also lost this video, sorry.
Sep 16th, 2007
Cool A&R Site
Hey this is a cool site, Scoutr. Taken from their site: This site is an online A&R portal where you can send us your own demos and also check out your competition by listening to the tracks others have sent in. Also on this site, your music goes straight to the ears of our A&R execs and [...]
Sep 16th, 2007
The Debut of a Great Thing
Kinda look back to 1991 when Mike Patton began his debut with Faith No More. Below is the video from the song Falling to Pieces, taken from The Real Thing album. So i remember why the 5 pieces rockers is great! Cool Mike Patton’s clayboard piece stolen from experiment333.
Sep 16th, 2007
Great Music Never Comes For Free!
Here’s why Trent Reznor is one of the coolest people in the world: Trent was in China with his band NIN for a Music Festival. In recent interview with Music2dot0, he stated that NIN fans in China (and maybe all over the world?) should download its music for free rather than buy it from CD pirate [...]
