David Byrne & Brian Eno-New Musical release

08.05.2008 by Mark Forman

David Byrne and Brian Eno's Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is getting close to being released. They have arranged to release one track,"Strange Overtones" but when I went to the site that instructed me to leave my e-mail in "box", no box was found? April Fools or foolish scripting? Anyway, I'm sure they'll get [...]


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Redzone:Abstract Revolution

04.06.2008 by Mark Forman

Received by Justin a friend from SL. I've played musi of theirs before on GLU-worth checking out folks. REDZONE are releasing their 3RD album, ABSTRACT REVOLUTION, on 20th JUNE. HANDCRAFTED SAMPLES created from ORIGINAL MATERIAL performed on REAL INSTRUMENTS bridge the gap between electronic and concrète genres. HEAVILY processed ethereal FEMALE VOCALS, rock beats and HIPHOP [...]


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Tools for Indie Musicians

11.09.2007 by Mark Forman

Sergio *Savaman* Savarese Gotta love those crazy folks over at Mashable. This time they put together this meta list of resources for indie musicians. Make sure you check out and put them and the power of the web to work for you and your music.


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Virally good news…

09.29.2007 by Mark Forman

Some of you that have been listening to my A.Connector Cast or reading the blog are aware that I've been helping Moshang(Jean Marais) with a viral marketing campaign for the Creative Commons licensed free web download album-Asian Variations. Happy to say that Creative Commons has listed this work in their blog here. I trust that [...]


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New Podcast of Mine

05.22.2007 by Mark Forman

Same guy-different theme and place. My new new media venture is A.Connector:podcast, blog, time-shifted conversation space.... I talk more about my global business/marketing ideas and experiences there. It's a chance for me to "eat my own dogfood"-podcast is a free sample of me in the hope to get more business for my company. Would love [...]


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Good News and Bad News

05.18.2007 by Mark Forman

pbo31 First the bad news: actually pretty minor. I got inspired to get new url for my new business podcast. Played around with many different names for the url and podcast and found one for both. Then quickly jump over to snag CC's Hash 3 discount code for GoDaddy. Well, did get rock bottom price [...]


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Jonathan Coulton working the new media…

05.16.2007 by Mark Forman

PhineasX One of my favorite new media musicians Jonathan Coulton was featured in this NY Time magazine piece. This is an excellent read for understanding more about new media and viral marketing, particularly for musicians.


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I got it-write about mothers

05.12.2007 by Mark Forman

JKeagan One day off from Mother's Day where I'm sitting. I'd be sorely remiss if I didn't take an opportunity to give honor to mom's everywhere and in particular my mom and my wife. You ladies rock-but you're all crazy. Yeah we helped make you that way so I guess it's fair. Thanks for all [...]


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Foxy…Tunes

05.02.2007 by Mark Forman

Ok sports fans/ You heard it here from the bluesman. Check it out immediately. FoxyTunes kickass plugin for Firefox. It can control your music player from lower menu bar of window. Even cooler you can do internet search for your favorite music and it will gather available sources for you to stream, and it will [...]


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Well that sounds encouraging…

04.27.2007 by Mark Forman

sea turtle My man Dave Slusher had an interesting "point" on his site today regarding a ruling that appears to favor reason on the definition of downloaded media and the courts opinion on that here.


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