New Media Expo: 2008 [Las Vegas Recap]
This last week, the New Media Expo arrived for the fourth time at its new home, the Las Vegas Convention Center. For the newly named 2008 Expo, I had the pleasure of staying with fellow content producer from Detroit, Mikel OD of Most People are DJ’s and Steve from Geek Cred next door to the main Hilton property.
Mikel and I thought it might be nice to record a bit in the sweltering 110 degree heat, so we brought the recorder along poolside during happy hour each day for a bit of quick relaxed thoughts about the festival, nothing too deep - just a bit of kick back banter and a few SoCal music recommendations that I thought Mikel’s audience might enjoy.
On the first day of the Expo I had the honor of speaking on an iProng Magazine panel on the convention floor next to CC Chapman, Brian Ibbott of Coverville, Ariel Hyatt (Ariel Cyber PR), and musician Natalie Gelman. The topic stretched from promoting your podcast, to promoting yourself online as an independent musician.
We also attended the Coverville 500 concert on Saturday where we saw some of the best performances being offered in Vegas that night, including IR favorites, Chance & The Choir (see video clip below). Overall, we had a great time, possibly due to the added distraction value that Vegas brings to the mix. While this was nice, I can also see that as being a detriment as it drags community away from a centralized meeting place after-hours or even during the event(s).
You can check out the MPAD #157 (NME 08 Recapisode) episode at the link below. Give Mikel OD some love. He’s got a great show folks!
More shout-outs: Dave Warner (Dave’s Lounge), Seth Harwood, the Revision 3 peeps, Anji Bee & Ryan Lum (Lovespirals), Dan Diamond and Elsie’s Yoga Kula
MPAD #157 (NME ‘08 RECAPISODE)
(DOWNLOAD IT HERE!!!)
Chance & The Choir Video Link (Vimeo)
Chance & The Choir VIdeo Link 2 (Vimeo)
Chance & The Choir Video Link 3 (Flickr)
Geoff Smith w/ Leo LaPorte (Vimeo)
Insomnia Radio rejoins AMP
Insomnia Radio has rejoined The Association of Music Podcasting (AMP) after quite a long absence. AMP was founded close to the advent of the podcasting medium, and has a hundred plus shows in their musical pipeline for your perusal.
What is AMP?
AMP is a group of music podcasters who wish to promote and support this great medium. All members of AMP have regular podcasts that have been judged by their peers to maintain a high standard of quality.
AMP works with music podcasters to set and maintain high standards and independent artists who provide podsafe music to the public through Creative Commons copyright licensing.
The association also supports listeners by offering a list of quality, creative podcasts and produces a digest podcast (AMPed) featuring the very best music offered by individual programs that week.
AMP Links
- Web site: musicpodcasting.org
- Feed: feeds.feedburner.com/ampedmp3
- Show Notes: amped.libsyn.com
A Note From the creator of Insomnia Radio…
Well hey gang. It’s been forever. I trust you’re all still getting your dose of killer independent music as Charles, Stuart & crew are doing an amazing job here at IR. Me? I’ve started quite literally an entirely new life, new home, new careers. (yes, plural…you know me!)
The past few weeks have led to the culmination of a new network that just launched today: www.gamesareevil.com, which houses an international staff led by myself and Phil Coyne, who you may remember from Bitjobs and the original IR:UK, as well as Rob LeFebvre who handled design on the 4-issue KillYourFM Magazine. I know there are some passionate gamers in the house, and this message is for you…
I know what you’re thinking: “ANOTHER video game website?” The short answer: Yep!
The long answer goes something like this: The entire staff at GamesAreEvil HQ is on a mission to deliver honest, relevant, and fun videogame journalism. Sounds a bit cliche, right? Then let’s turn things upside down and get into the nitty gritty.
- We’re tired of linkbait-ridden websites forcing unconfirmed rumors down our throats three times daily. No more noise!
- We don’t plan on following the rules.
- No fanboys here: We go where the quality games are.
- We believe your time is valuable, and so is ours. If a game isn’t worth your time, chances are you’ll rarely see us write about it.
- No ratings systems, no numbers, no stars. In our warped and geeky minds, a game is either worth renting, worth buying, or not worth your time, and we’ll give you our informed decision without bias.
- We believe that gaming, AND gaming journalism, is ALL about community. There are no one-sided conversations here. Tell us what’s on your mind, and you’ll see us spring into action.
- For now and into the near future, whatever titles we cover, you can bet we’ve plunked down hard earned cash for them. This is a passionate bunch, and we’re here to stay.
- We like the independents of the gaming world, too…
So head over, subscribe to the RSS Feed, and pat yourself on the back for being there.
Thanks for continuing to enjoy Insomnia Radio!
Game on;
Jason Evangelho
The Best Music You’ve Never Heard: V5
Enjoy the fifth volume of Scott Tinetti’s The Best Music You’ve Never Heard.
As always, if you like what you hear, buy a song, buy an album, send the musicians some love.
Mixtape: Shoreline Sirens [Side A]
On July 19, 2008 an incredible selection of musical talent assembled under the shadow of the famed eighty-one year old Cyclone rollercoaster at the storied community of Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York.
This mixtape is a salute to the Siren Music Festival put on by the Village Voice, a free all day/all ages music celebration that got its start in 2001 as a way to help revitalize this historic community and celebrate the Voice’s coverage of local & national music.
We’ve graciously had one of the photographers at the event, Josh Kuckens, offer up a few images to be posted here, this specific image being “Film School”, an artist from both San Francisco & Los Angeles.
Make sure to check out the rest of his photos, including a full sized version of this one, here. Also you can check out side B of this mixtape over in our festival comp. section.
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SHORELINE SIRENS MIXTAPE [SIDE A]
1) Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Baltimore
2) The Dodos - Fools
3) Islands - Rough Gem
4) Beach House - Master of None
5) Film School - Activate
6) Jaguar Love - Bats Over the Pacific Ocean
7) Parts & Labor - Endless Air Show
8 ) Dragons of Zynth - Who Rize Above
9) The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
10) Broken Social Scene - Fire Eye’d Boy
11) Ra Ra Riot - Dying is Fine
Insomnia Radio #158: The Coffee Break
Today we bring you what they call in your country, ‘The Coffee Break’. Its a nice assortment of different sound selections starting off a heavier note and gradually ending at a light-hearted party somewhere in Spain, straight out of something that belongs on the 80’s Something Wild Soundtrack.
As usual we are all over the regional board although mostly in the US this time around. We take you from Texas (Austin, Dallas), California (Half Moon Bay, San Francisco, Long Beach, Irvine), Washington (Seattle), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), Minnesota (Minneapolis), and of course Spain (Valencia).
Enjoy, and don’t forget to grab an extra cup on your way through!
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ARTISTS
- Basic: Favorite Movie
- Moving Atlas: Travel On | itunes | mp3
- The Dust: Pretty and Confused | snocap
- Joshua Lanes: Theft on the Floor | itunes | cdbaby
- Stuporhero: Superball | emusic | free album
- Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer: Plays Pretty for Baby (feat. Anthony Green) | emusic | mp3
- Sick of Sarah: Common Mistake | emusic | mp3
- Bag of Toys: Rollin’ | itunes | emusic | cdbaby
- Faded Paper Figures: B Film | cdbaby | mp3
- Cof Cof: Carribean Boy | mp3
SPECIAL THANKS
MLC PR
IODA Promonet
Flickr Image Credit: chispita_666
It Came From the Liquor Cabinet
Soundbed: Isles (Great Electronica/Trip-Hop out of Iowa!)
Daily Dose Extras: Joshua Lanes, Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer, Sick of Sarah, Bag of Toys
FLASHBACK: The J Roddy Interview
Wow…so how long has it been?? Really…six months with no new content? WTF? What can I say, we’ve been busy? Yeah, let’s go with busy.
The GOOD news is that NEW CONTENT IS COMING SOON…really it is. As soon as next week.
The BETTER news, we’ve never stopped receiving submissions, thus we have a ton of music to get out there. Sadly, I will not be able to live up to the promises I’ve made that “we’ll get you on the next show”…at this point, the show would be 2-3 hours long, we won’t do that to you….yet.
The BEST news, is that in cruising the web today after work, doing my usual routine of catching up on blogs, music, sports, news, etc…I cruised by one of my favorite blogs, Fuel Friends (I can’t tell you how many people I have directed to this site). In this week’s Monday Music Roundup , a feature I look forward to beginning Tuesday the prior week, Heather mentions one of our IR Baltimore favorites, J Roddy Walston & The Business. This got me thinking of the evening we spent with the band last year (or was it 2 years ago, my God time flies) and what a blast we had interviewing them….so why not post it again for the world to hear. The interview runs about 53 minutes and feature 5 or 6 tracks from their recent release, Hail Megaboys, and a couple other tasty little ditties. So enjoy this blast from the past and get ready for some new shows in the next week or so.
Tim & Don
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