Falena on Virb

Hi guys, we're Falena from Bari (Italy) and we play IndieRock... on our profile you can listen to 2 songs, and we'd like to read some opinions about it. Thanks.

www.virb.com/falena
www.facebook.com/falena.zone

Rufus Cappadocia And Special Guests To Perform At The Jalopy On October 31st

Url: http://www.jalopy.biz/

Sound: http://www.rufusmusic.com/rufus/music.html

Celloist extraordinaire Rufus Cappadocia will perform at the Jalopy on Saturday, October 31st at 8:30 p.m. along with special guests Gaida Hinawi (Voice Syria) & Yacouba Denke Denke (Fulani Flute & Vocals Niger). There is a $15 cover charge for the show.

Rufus Cappadocia and guests Gaida Hinawi & Yacouba Denke Denke @ Jalopy

315 Columbia Street

Brooklyn, NY 11231

(718) 395-3214

http://www.jalopy.biz/

Rufus Cappadocia is one of the leading voices on the cello today. From the modalities of Middle Eastern, West African and pan-European folk forms to blues, rock and jazz along the way, adding elements American roots, Mediterranean textures, and Caribbean percussion for good measure, Cappadocia's effortless and natural embrace of all music is awe-inspiring. Rufus will be playing his new 5 string cello and quartertone baritone guitar.

http://www.rufusmusic.com/

http://bethanyandrufus.musicdish.net

To request mp3 tracks for review as well as interview requests, contact:

Eric de Fontenay

MusicDish

bethanyrufus@musicdish.net

+1 718 278 0662

C.W. Ross Review: Kirsten DeHaan - Thorns On A Crown

Url: http://kirstendehaan.musicdish.net

Sound: http://www.facebook.com/kdlocal

Artist: Kirsten DeHaan

Title: Thorns On A Crown EP

Website: http://www.kdlocal.com

Style: Alt Rock/ Singer Songwriter

Label: SirLady Records

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

By C.W. Ross

http://cwsplace.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/kirsten-dehaan-thorns-on-a-crown/

The year 2004 was when Kirsten DeHaan first started to make her mark on the Indie music scene with the release of her debut album, Conform. DeHaan also started the New York Indie Rock Launch in 2006 to bring the best New York artists of various rock genres together, repeating the series again in 2007 and 2008 and continues to help promote the New York indie music scene. She also works to support American soldiers in the Middle East. DeHaan is also an entrepreneur running her own label, SirLady Records.

Thorns On A Crown is the latest release from Kirsten DeHaan and on it you'll find 5 tracks of music that offer up a variety of styles.

Things get started with the track, "1984," a song that offers up a 60's alt. rock feel thanks to the retro-guitar parts that are found on it.

Track-2, "Double or Nothing," is a lively track that mixes just a touch of a folk edge in to its light rock beats.

Track-3, "The Night Shift," starts out as a melodic acoustic guitar song until the 2:20 mark when the drum beats instantly speed up changing the song's tempo.

Thorns On A Crown ends on a very high note with the songs, "I'm Coming Home," and "Ms. Daisy."

Track-4, "I'm Coming Home," is a harmonica filled track that gives off a folk-rock vibe. For me this song also worked best to showcase DeHaan's vocals.

Track-5, "Ms. Daisy" finishes things up nicely with its melodious sound that also highlights DeHaan's vocals.

Kirsten DeHaan has nice vocals that are very pleasant sounding and match well with the songs found on her latest release, Thorns On A Crown.

MusicDishTV: Audioplasm (Polarity/1 & Rubio) - Guillermo Ate My Lunch

http://www.musicdish.net/polarity1

"Guillermo Ate My Lunch" is the opening track of Audioplasm's first CD, Heavy Meadow, which features Guillermo Cardenas on merengue percussion. Audioplasm is a collaboration of two artists from New York City, Polarity/1 and Rubio. Together they have already scored the soundtrack for the documentary "In Debt We Trust" by Danny Schechter. Polarity/1 himself wrote the music for the award-winning Schechter's WMD (Weapon of Mass Deception). This video, directed by Marc Wagnon & Polarity/1, shows their ability in visual arts as well as their musical eclecticism.

Watch the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsFRVjCwhn4

MusicDishTV: Vinny Piana - "Beg Me To Forgive"

Currently an indie pop artist, Vinny Piana divides his time in London by writing, producing, and making music. Piana's many credits in the music industry have led him to create his debut solo album, "Beg Me To Forgive," due out in October 2009. This is his video for the title track.

Watch the video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dOaoba95ww

http://www.vinnypiana.co.uk/

Technology Review: Rockster+Pro Home Studio Recording Software Package

Url: http://www.borntorock.com/rockster.htm

Sound: http://www.borntorock.com

[Mi2N PR] New York, NY -- Rockster+Pro is an innovative new home studio recording software package that gives serious home studio musicians an effective and easy to use method of transforming amateur sounding analog tracks into digital tracks that have a professional sound. Created by the new music company Born to Rock, mainly known for its production of guitars and basses made from metal instead of wood, Rockster+Pro is one invention that delivers on its promise.

Most home audio recording equipment is lacking in acoustics and the ability to produce a rich, vibrant sound. Rockster+Pro solves that problem by allowing the artist to choose "one of seven presets or invent their own. A GUI panel provides controls for factory and user presets, reverb time, decay and mix, heat, drive, space and dither. Reverb controls are independently adjustable for reflections from rear, side, ceiling and audience so you can design your own concert hall's size, shape, and liveliness." Another great feature is that Rockster+Pro doesn't work in real time. It analyzes the entire file before processing it, and even gives you a warning of any overages before processing modifications so you can choose to re-record the track if you want to.

With Rockster+Pro, I was able to infuse a very unique musical color into dry sounds with just my digital audio workstation. Using different settings, I managed to make my very own cello-and-piano composition sound like it was in front of me, being played live.

I have worked with various audio editing programs over the past few years, and it has always been a struggle trying to use the software's controls and settings just trying to do something really simple. That's not the deal with Rockster+Pro. You've got a clear and simple panel, 15 controllers, all with values from zero to nine. You can store and recall presets when you find just the effect you need, ranging from just barely noticeable to something entirely different.

Rockster+Pro isn't good just for making your home studio recordings sound "live". Boosted, higher harmonic frequencies and a slightly longer duration for each note of the melody gives any recording sound a much more realistic feel.

I would have liked to be able to use Rockster as a VST plug-in with FL Studio or Cubase and apply its effects in real time before having to save the file each time.

Rockster has 12 knobs (3 groups of 4) that manipulate three aspects of a sound with each one of the aspects maintaining control from a different location -- rear, side, ceiling and audience. The first group (top left four knobs) controls the time delay, the second is for the decay, and the third group is for mixing.

The first example is an upbeat composition using an accordion, guitar and trumpet:

Example 1 - Upbeat Accordion-Guitar-Trumpet by sthprk

And after using preset 2:

Example 1 - Upbeat Accordion-Guitar-Trumpet after using preset 2 (screenshot 1) by sthprk

In this example, my audio file already had studio audience recorded, so it was closer to a live performance. But by manipulating it with Rockster+Pro's settings, I was able to create a much clearer sound. As you can see, I used one of the presets provided by the program. Adjustments to the original sound were applied as such: Time delay - rear set to 7, the side to 4, ceiling 3 and audience 2. Decay is set to low levels for all directions – rear 4, side 3, ceiling 2 and audience 2. The way the mixing knobs are set, the "rear" setting receives more amplification – rear 7, side 4, ceiling 3, and audience 2. Heat, drive and space are set to 4, 4 and 5 representing a medium sized venue.

The second example is a slow cello-piano duo I composed using FL studio:

Example 2 - Slow Cello-Piano duo by sthprk

And after using custom settings:

Example 2 - Slow Cello-Piano duo after using custom settings (screenshot 2) by sthprk

In this example, I had much calmer and low-key instruments (piano and cello). In Greece, we are more used to listening to a cello–piano duo in a smaller venue, with fewer people in the audience. At the same time, however, a smaller venue means a warmer ambience, and fewer instruments get to the audience with a distinctive and clear sound. That means less time delay, even less decay, more heat and less space.

Keeping these thoughts in mind, I tried to virtually create the best live sound possible, with the correct settings.

* Time delay is set to: rear 6, side 3, ceiling 2, and audience 1.

* Decay: rear 3, side 2, ceiling 1, audience 1.

* Mix: rear 6, side 3, ceiling 2, audience 1.

* Heat and drive were set to 6 and space set to 2.

It's pretty obvious by the examples above that Rockster+Pro is what it claims to be. I enjoyed using it, and would recommend it to any artist or musician who does home studio recording.

X: THC's "X: The Human Condition" To Kick Off Depeche Mode Halloween Extravaganza

New York, NY.- October 14, 2009: In development for over eleven years, X: The Human Condition has been designed to embrace the expanding possibilities of multimedia in entertainment. Now, the live, dynamic concert performance by the music group X: THC, enhanced by emotionally charged film visuals, previews its uplifting and stimulating shock to the senses at "The Depeche Mode Halloween Extravaganza", taking place at Don Hills, 511 Greenwich St., NYC, on Friday, October 30th at 8:00 pm. Admission is $10 in advance, $15 at the door. (21 and over).

Other bands performing on this outstanding bill include Violator, J.Viewz and Ready Fire Aim, followed by a late night Halloween dance party, all hosted by the Depeche Mode Fanclub New York.

X: THC has partnered with the Jed Foundation and AFSP to donate a portion of the profits from X: The Human Condition to help these two non-profit organizations in their work, dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, self-injury and suicide. They exist to encourage, inform, inspire and invest into treatment and recovery. The inspiring music of X: THC combines the multi-layered hypnotica of smoothly grooving electronic beats, warm emotive alternative indie rock, coldly induced new wave post-modernism, lush, heartfelt, romantic blue-eyed soul & classic songwriting, with an otherworldly experimental soundscape.

X: THC breaks down the walls between musical genres, challenging categorization, while communicating performance through multiple sensory applications, known as "synesthesia".

The live music and film multimedia experience examines the human condition, pulling you in to an alternate reality...

Hypnotically delicious, it is a trance-inducing trip inside the human subconscious, combining hypnotic, surreal soundscapes with phantasmagorical, emotionally charged visual storytelling to create a unique and inspiring multi-sensory music and film experience.

X: The Human Condition alchemically fuses together influences of luminaries such as Tim Burton, Michael Gondry, Antoine St. Exupery, Darren Aronofsky, Guillermo Del Toro, Jean Cocteau, Rod Serling, The Brothers Grimm, and Joseph (John) Merrick, to create an imaginative, terrible beauty, both real and unreal, where the mind can make a hell of heaven, and a heaven of hell... X: The Human Condition. For press information about X: The Human Condition and X: THC, please contact Harvey B. at info (at) x-thc.com. and visit http://www.x-thc.com.

Reduced admission tickets: http://www.x-thc.com/live.html

MusicDishTV: Kirsten DeHaan - "1984" (live)

Indie rock singer/songwriter Kirsten DeHaan performing "1984" from her newly released EP 'Thorns On A Crown.' DeHaan played at The Colony Cafe in Woodstock, NY on the closing night (October 4, 2009) of Woodstock's 40th Anniversary Film Festival.

["1984" skillfully maneuvers its way from beginning to end as DeHaan puts her vocal range along with a knack for soothing tones to good use, singing in a soft, but gutsy manner. The guitar playing over a catchy beat works well with her voice to produce a sultry and graceful fusion of folk and rock.]

http://www.kdlocal.com
http://kirstendehaan.musicdish.net

Kirsten DeHaan EP Release Party At TM Promotions' CMJ Music Marathon Showcase

Alternative Rock singer/songwriter Kirsten DeHaan will be introducing her recently released EP "Thorns On A Crown" to music industry professionals and fans gathering in New York for the CMJ Music Marathon. Kirsten was invited to host her NYC EP release event by TM Promotions during their official CMJ showcase on Thursday, October 22nd at BLVD/Crash Mansion (199 Bowery - Spring Street entrance), where she will be joining Nick Howard, Alyson Greenfield and My Other Friend. Kirsten and Alyson Greenfield recently shared the stage at Colony Cafe on the closing night of Woodstock's 40th Anniversary Film Festival (Oct. 4th).

TM PROMOTIONS' CMJ MUSIC MARATHON SHOWCASE

Thursday, October 22 - 10 PM doors

Back Room at BLVD/Crash Mansion

199 Bowery (at Spring Street), New York

Free for CMJ badge holders; $8 for non-badge holders

http://www.blvdnyc.com

http://cmj09.sched.org/event/ad8311bfe04d610e0c8711175027469d

"Thorns On A Crown" was recently released via major online retailers iTunes, Amazon, eMusic and Napster. Distributed by Oseao Media Group, the five song EP is sure to please. Kirsten's voice and signature style has a mixture of qualities that critics have called: "the sweetness of Liz Phair", "a soft, airy quality like that of Sia", and "the rich alto of Fiona Apple".

List of major online retail links: - Amazon - eMusic - iTunes - Napster

About Kirsten DeHaan

Kirsten DeHaan is a true jack of all musical trades. Not only is she a talented singer/songwriter and guitarist, she promotes her music via her label SirLady Records, does various philanthropic work for American soldiers in the Middle East, and is a big proponent of the New York indie music scene. DeHaan stomped onto the indie music scene in 2004 when she released her first album "Conform." Reviewers compared her music to that of Nirvana, U2, and Belly. Her music has been downloaded over 1 million times via various peer-to-peer sites and featured on the hit reality shows Made and My Super Sweet Sixteen.

Declaring "Conform" to be one of the most popular records next to the Killers and Ashlee Simpson by FreshFarmMusic.com, Kirsten was one of five artists chosen for Men's Vogue/Hennessey Flaunt Your Taste Critics Choice Awards. Her latest offering, a five song EP dubbed "Thorns On A Crown" is by far her most mature work to date.

http://www.kdlocal.com

http://kirstendehaan.musicdish.net

Sound: http://www.itunes.com/kirstendehaan/thornsonacrown