Nobody Cares about Music (remix)

[Isabeau]

Eric Clapton Will Not Play Shows Where Proof of Vaccine Is Required

Eric Clapton said he would cancel any shows if the venue requires attendees prove they are vaccinated against Covid-19.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[Free]

Rebecca Black is ready to re-introduce herself

A decade after “Friday,” Black has reinvented herself as one of pop's most exciting artists

www.avclub.com

Hey, why not? We are a culture that enjoys a comeback. Even when there's nothing to come back from.

 

[Free]

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Free]

Wicked harp.

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Free]

I'm officially Old People.

 

[Free]

Sid mentioned this in the What Are You Listening To thread earlier in the week:

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Caete]

 

[Noodles]

I'm working on beefing up my "Music Snob" chops by upgrading my collection of MP3 CD rips to FLACs.

On a related note, I am kind of frustrated with the lack of reliable places to buy digital music in FLAC format. HDTracks seems to be the best bet. Beatport seemed ok, but I went and bought the discography for a band I like only to have it removed from my library because the account selling violated the TOS (I am 99% sure they were bootlegs). I got a refund from Bandcamp, which was cool, but it left an icky taste.

What I need to look into next is a way to properly play FLAC files to experience the proper sound clarity or whatever.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

If they are on Bandcamp, the artist gets a better commission and you get FLAC downloads. HDTracks is where I look next.

For listening, I have a Raspberry Pi Zero with a DAC and line out so I can connect to my stereo or my desktop speakers (mine have a computer input and a line in jack so I can play when my computer is off).

FIIO makes a reasonable portable music play with a high end DAC for playing FLAC or other high resolution formats. Mine also works as a USB soundcard for my computer.

 

[bubblesort]

Sid mentioned this in the What Are You Listening To thread earlier in the week:

When will the music industry learn that nobody wants this? Here's a quote from another article, about ABBA's 'virtual performance'...

ABBA’s digital concert experience, referred to as Voyage, will use a pre-recorded performance of ABBA in their mocap suits. The 10-piece band accompanying the virtual avatars, however, will be performing remotely in real-time.

First of all, this is just a music video with CGI. CGI in music videos was certainly new and exciting... in 1985, when Dire Straits did it. That was almost 4 decades ago. I don't care if they have mocap suits and pixar pushing the bytes, it's just lame now.

Secondly, nobody actually believes that live performance is a thing when you charge over $100 for cheap seats at a concert. That's just not what people go to big concerts for, and it's not how shows like that are designed. Large venue singing is every bit as fake as pro wrestling and Milli Vanilli. Don't even get me started on how bad this is in the classical music world. Classical audiences demanded perfection, so now they choke on it. Algorithmic, autotuned perfection. If you spend more than $20 on a concert ticket, you are going for the atmosphere of cosplaying like rockstars still exist in the same way they did two decades ago. Only rubes go for the music.

If they would actually stream live music like we do in SL, while controlling their avatar with a mocap suit in real time? That would be interesting. There are plenty of VR platforms where you can do that. They wouldn't even need mocap, they could just play live with a decent avatar and some singing animations, like Bjork did in SL back in like 2007 or something. It would not be new to people in this forum, but you know, it would give a bigger audience a taste of what makes VR fun. Also, I really hope they would learn from disasters like Sansar's Splenour XR, where the concert goers had no opportunity to be in the same instance as their friends. There's probably a lot of technical hurdles that need to be addressed for the instance issue, but I feel like major music labels have enough resources to figure it out.

 

[Noodles]

They are charging $100 for a virtual concert? That's really rediculous. The handful I did were like $15, and it felt alright (It helps that I screen record them for later rewatching). I mean, there are a lot of concert videos on YouTube, for free. $100 is rediculous.

And some sort of Mocap Real time avatar concert would be neat but I don't think we are there yet. Max Avatars in any virtual innstance seems to be capped pretty low in all cases. So there will never be a crowd. They could instance out the artists but you end up with the problems Splendour XR had. WoW I think fixed this with it's instancing by simply, prioritizing anyone on your friend list.

Also Splendour XR was kind of disappointing because it was just weird green screen videos on a fake stage. Not even Avatars. It could have just as easily been a series of streams.

Another note on streaming concerts, It kind of feels like cheating if it's not done live. I am sure the temptation is high to pre record a "perfect take" but at that point it's just a music video.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Secondly, nobody actually believes that live performance is a thing when you charge over $100 for cheap seats at a concert. That's just not what people go to big concerts for, and it's not how shows like that are designed. Large venue singing is every bit as fake as pro wrestling and Milli Vanilli. Don't even get me started on how bad this is in the classical music world. Classical audiences demanded perfection, so now they choke on it. Algorithmic, autotuned perfection. If you spend more than $20 on a concert ticket, you are going for the atmosphere of cosplaying like rockstars still exist in the same way they did two decades ago. Only rubes go for the music.

Gorillaz have done some live shows using holograms and animation mixed with live musicians. Which totally works because they are animated to start with.

Personally I can count all of the arena shows I have been to on one hand. I even left early at an REM show because after seeing them in a mid-sized hall, it just didn't compare. Some artists do well, but it is more of a multi-media stage show than a concert at that point. Lorde gave a great performance when I saw her, but you never saw the band, only her and the dancers/singers. Recently I saw Smashing Pumpkins, and the band was great but a lot of the show was large screen video that went with the music.

 

[Free]

I've been known to rock out on replay.



Maglink

 

[bubblesort]

Every time I hit up a DJ Talon show in SL he shows me a new musician I love. Last night it was Paul Thorn. I mean, even if you don't know him, I think everybody knows his song It's A Great Day To Whup Somebody's Ass... or if you don't, you probably never worked with rednecks. His other stuff is great, though! I Don't Like Half The Folks I Love is awesome. He's now my go to for music that makes me want to practice guitar when I'm not in the mood.

So I went to YouTube, and found Paul Thorn radio. First song that came on is Everything's Gonna Be Alright. It's a total 180 for Thorn. Like, he always sung about being a redneck and stuff, but he was genuine about it. I think he must have gotten a Nashville contract, then started mindlessly slapping lyrics about his cherry red pickup truck and mama's corn bread into canned Nashville melodies. I mean, good for him, getting a record deal, but I see this as a prime example of why Nashville is horrible for music.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Alex Clare: The singer who chose his faith over Adele tour

Alex Clare on record label ultimatums and a hopeful return to a kinder music industry.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Free]

This is pretty amazing.

 

[bubblesort]

Last I heard from Marilyn Manson, he was cancelled for some nasty spousal abuse.

Apparently, now Kanye West and Justin Beiber have converted him to christianity. There are pictures of the three of them dressed in white, leading prayer circles.

Kanye West invites Marilyn Manson and Justin Bieber to Sunday Service

Kanye West proved that his friendship with embattale rocker Marilyn Manson was still going strong as he invited him to one of his Sunday Services on October 31 along with Justin Bieber

www.dailymail.co.uk