February 2010
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December 2009
4 posts
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“Satisfied” (Live at The Living Room...
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“Christmas (Beat Happening Cover)”...
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“Nightmares from Diet Birch Beer”...
November 2009
4 posts
Watch(via What English Sounds Like to Foreigners is Today’s BIG Thing in Music - NOV 03, 2009)
A song presumably made up of gibberish lyrics to make it sound like English, written by an Italian.
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“Bad Lover” (Live at Cake Shop...
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“Panda” (Live at Cake Shop 10.20.09) -...
October 2009
5 posts
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“Floating Vibes” (Live at Pianos...
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“Parallel July” (Live at Cake Shop...
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“Anne Marie” (Live at Cameo Gallery...
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“You” (Live at Cake Shop 09.24.09) -...
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“Bell” (Live at Death By Audio...
September 2009
5 posts
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“I Guess The Lord Is In New York”...
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“Death to Fame” (Live at Mercury...
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“Mega Secrets” (Live at Cameo Gallery...
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“Lightning” (Live at Brooklyn Yard...
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“Dreams (Fleetwood Mac...
August 2009
8 posts
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Miracles of Modern Science is a unique group....
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“Pool Swimmers” (Live at Market Hotel...
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Welcome Mimi!
Mimi is Standing Room’s new resident blogger and recording maestro. Her blog is a great way to hear about some fantastic up and coming artists, and Standing Room is helping her provide a spotlight on concerts. We’re thrilled to have Mimi at the helm!
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Next Up: Search
We’ll finally be bringing search capability to the site!
But even better, we may actually have content to search soon. We’ve recently organized an effort to get some audio for up and coming New York bands up soon, which should help jump start the site. Exciting!
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Standing Room r3 is live!
Just got back from a much needed vacation and released the new version of Standing Room. We now can expose links to sets, which will open the door to some handy upcoming functionality. As always, there were also behind the scenes stability and usability fixes.
Enjoy!
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Next Up: Set Lists
Standing Room’s focus is really the set list, which is a piece of contextual information that is missing from the mainstream music services. It’s a really valuable and interesting piece of information, as we’ll come to show in the next couple of months.
Right now, it’s just plain stupid that there isn’t a way to jump directly to a set list in Standing Room. Without...
July 2009
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Standing Room r2
Release 2 is up!
Most visibly, it includes some support for Facebook and Twitter sharing, as well as inserting your Twitter stream straight into personal and troupe pages.
You also now have an option to make your personal or troupe page eligible for the showcase and home page areas. Eligibility is turned off by default, so we don’t accidentally showcase a page that’s not quite up to...
The songs of the people
Fred Shapiro, one of the contributors to the Freakonmics blog, asks readers to submit quotations he then attempts to source using the Yale Book of Quotations. This was in his most recent post:
Any thoughts on: “I care not who writes the laws of a people if you let me write their songs.” Snopes suggests attributing it or some variant to Plato or Napoleon, but offers no evidence.
Snopes is...
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Next up: Twitter
We like to carve up our development cycle in two or three week long release. Each release will tackle at least one public feature, and make whatever sorts of improvements in the background that need to happen to keep Standing Room brisk.
Release 2 will involve a little bit of Twitter integration, for those of you who are real junkies. Twitter is a good way to keep your fans and friends in the...
What's in a name?
I like music, and I like numbers. What do the two have to do with each other?
Last year, I read Ian Ayres’s Super Crunchers, which describes the ways that companies are using math to help guide their business. It’s a breezy read, and very light on the technical details, so I would recommend it to most people.
The first thing that struck me about the book is its clunky title. I mean,...
June 2009
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Stand up!
Hello, world!
Have you ever happened on a music performance and been so impressed that you bought a CD, only to get home, pop it in, and find the studio recording lacked the excitement or special je ne sai quoi that piqued your interest in the first place?
Well, that’s happened to me too often, which is why about a year ago I started playing with the idea of making music a performance...