Ravenspiral Guide is a free (licensed under Creative Commons) guide to music theory. It’s fantastic, easy to read, and doesn’t require a Berklee degree to make sense of it. Seriously, it’s quite good.
Thanks to Good Blimey, there are now over 18 gigs of mash-ups being seeded via BitTorrent. Now go get downloading — but please remember to leave your torrents seeding once you are done!
I’m sure everyone has heard about the Beatles remix album “Love” by now, so I won’t bore you to tears with all the mash-up hype surrounding it. (Since when is a remix album a mash-up album?) However, the Entertainment Weekly interview with Sir George Martin and Giles Martin is worth a read if you are at [...]
Top of my Christmas wish-list: RIAA tiolet paper. Not cheap, but worth every wipe.
Remix Magazine has posted a number of videos from the Los Angeles, Atlanta, and New York Remix Hotels. It’s the next best thing to be being there. My favorite videos include the Torq DJ software demo and the Producers Technology Lounge (part 1 and 2) panel.
Two tracks from Go Home Production’s Rock In Black 12″ are being made available for a very short time (likely 24 hours). Grab it while you can — see the MP3 section on the GHP site.
Aimed at “stamping out mashup ignorance,” the Boot Camp Clique web site recently relaunched. Sporting a beautiful new design and a nice collection of articles and tutorials, aspiring bootleg producers are sure to find this site to be an invaluable resource.
Gregg Gillis — a.k.a. Girl Talk – is taking his mash-up performance on tour. I was shocked to see that there are no bay area dates booked, though! It’s rather sad considering that … the best mashups in the world ever are from San Francisco he’ll be in LA anyways on January 13th Oh, well. See the tour schedule [...]
Lejo is the creator of quite a few unique finger puppet shows — check out the DJ one! (Thanks jono!)
Photographer Lane Hartwell snapped some shots of me at last month’s Mini-Bootie, one of which made it into the November issue of San Francisco Magazine. The bad news is that my identity remains anonymous in the accompanying article, making me almost famous. I guess that means my 15 minutes is still yet to come!