Archive for the 'Independent Music' Category

Aug 10 2008

Welcome (back) home

Over the past few months, I’ve been trying to figure out how to get this site jump started again. Since a lot of what I’m writing about these days is about community media and technology, it made sense to use my CCTV blog and thesis blog to do that. But, in doing that [...]

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Jul 01 2007

Jason Anderson and The Best

Jason Anderson and The Best rock Prescott Park in Portsmouth, NH on Saturday June 30, 2007.
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May 15 2007

Recording @ Q Division

Matt (above) and I went to Q Division yesterday to finish tracking his record. We had a super productive 12-hour day with much help from Joe (Q assistant engineer) who was a total rockstar. Many thanks to him for his amazing work on the session.
Now that we’ve finally finished tracking the record we’re hoping to [...]

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May 08 2007

Ken Freedman of WFMU at Berkman Center

Ken Freedman of WFMU visited the Berkman Center today for a tuesday luncheon. Ken is General Manager of WFMU, which Berkman writes is “one of the earliest and most aggressive users of web-based radio and social technologies.”
Here are some of my notes from today’s talk, which as David Weinberger adds, “I’m typing quickly, summarizing, [...]

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Apr 15 2007

Heading Back to the Studio

Published by colinrhinesmith under Independent Music

I haven’t talked much about my past life as a recording engineer/producer on this blog. That’s probably because I haven’t recorded much over the past year and a half. But, I’ll be heading back into the studio soon to finish Matt’s record which has been at least 7 years in the making!
My good friend, Matt [...]

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Jun 13 2006

The Broadband!

(cross posted from ACMEBoston)
I was talking with a friend of mine recently about how independent musicians and artists really need to start making some noise about the threats facing the Internet. This was mainly fueled by a recent article that I passed on written by Parul Desai from the Media Access Project. Looks like [...]

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Jun 01 2006

Indie Bands and Net Neutrality

Thanks to the Center for Creative Voices in Media for blogging this article by Parul Desai, the Assistant Director of Media Access Project:
“[Desai] has written this terrific article about the stake indie media artists have in Saving the Net/ aka Net Neutrality. Parul knows whereof she speaks — she’s also one of the owners [...]

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