New Bands I’m Diggin’
December 29, 2007 by Ryan
Again and again we’re seeing why we don’t need record companies. Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” shows that even big bands can release albums on their own over the internet. I recently ran across the Doritos Contest where they are going to give some band a big break and let them play the Super Bowl Halftime based off of internet voting. Actually, to be more accurate I ran across this post from TechCrunch, “Digg May Land Digg Girl Record Contract”. Which led me to Kina Grannis and the video to the right. The “Digg Song” that she did gained her lots of notoriety but she is definitely a much better artist than just a gimmick song.
After voting for Kina on the Doritos thing, I decided to listen to the 10 other finalists. All were pretty good, I imagine they had to be to get to be finalist, but a couple did stand out:
- Dominic Castillo & the Rock Savants: I’ll be voting for them in the contest as well. The song is a great “funny duet,” to quote them.
- Landon Austin: Great voice. He’s probably so popular right now at school!
- Barra Libre: I have to admit, I was going to skip over this one because of the spanish name…really stupid. Very cool, big band/almost ska feeling song. Definitely, listen to this one too!
I know that I’ve posted about it before but I still haven’t gotten over Paramore! I found on MTV the live performance that turned me on to them here and included one of the songs here.
Two, Three, Four!
After looking around MTV.com for that Paramore show I also ran into Flyleaf. Their single is catchy, particularly the chorus, enough to check them out.
IE7 Good, Firefox Better, Flock Best!?
November 20, 2007 by Ryan
Today, reading through my RSS feeds, I ran across this post about Firefox and a new browser called Flock. It caught my attention because I have been a big fan of Firefox. I seriously get annoyed with Internet Explorer. I hate how it screws with my websites and how it messes up transparency on png files!
I have been a longtime user of Firefox. I love the tabbed browsing. I love all the customization and extensions. But I have noticed with how many tabs I typically have, Firefox can get pretty heavy on the memory usage on my computers. At home on my laptop it’s less of a concern, but at work with my measly little memory it can lock things up pretty easily. That’s what caught my eye in the TechCrunch post.
I’d read about Flock before…well, more just skimmed over a post about it. It’s big thing is that it’s a “social browser.” It tries to integrate more of the social networks people use (blogs, flickr, del.icio.us, Twitter, etc., etc.) and do so more seamlessly into the browser. I decided to give it a shot, downloaded it and have been pulling in some of my accounts. In fact, I am writing this post from Flock!
Blogged with Flock
