Kealing Yearbook

Everyone should check out last year's kealing yearbook at http://www.tinyurl.com/kealingyearbook

Survey Time!

Soundcheck will now be adding weekly installments of surveys. Expect to have your MIND BLOWN

Music Making Software: An inside look

There are many choices available for the creation of electronic music. Personally, I use Fruity Loops Studio 9 and Reason by Propellerhead. Others use Ableton Live or Cubase. Here's what I use:

Fruity Loops 9:

Fruity Loops is easy, but if you know what you're doing (which I do after quite a bit of experimenting) you can make professional sounding songs pretty easily. With the right sound packs and plug-ins. Fruity loops uses loops (no way, right?) to organize songs.

Reason:

Reason 6 is the latest version of the Softsynth software by Propellerhead. A softsynth takes MIDI data and turns it into whatever sound you'd like. Easy to use and easier to wire through Fruity Loops, this software is one of the key elements that I use for creating my music.

MY NAME IS TRAVIS. AND I AM THE MOONSTAR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ8-ETHE9AI

have fun guys

La Zona Rosa

Two Door Cinema Club playing with Royal Bangs at La Zona Rosa on March 15!

Josh Lumsden

I think that I may have found the next Justin Bieber. His name is Josh Lumsden and he's probably the greatest artist of the century. His single "The Show" is available on iTunes, and I know you will want to get it because it's such a good song.

JELLO

Jello is a amorphous, when it drops, it appears to hit the ground and dissipate as a liquid would, but it then uprights itself again. I had no idea what an amorphous even is, but the liquid dissipation and the uprighting afterwards is simply awesome. It was noticed that the video actually does not have a 0:17 second mark, it only says 0:18 twice. Also, there a few conspiracy theories about the 'face' that appears at 0:05, is it a lion? an alien? a tiger? Well, as one insightful YouTuber said, and i quote, "Actually, at around 0:05 I saw a big green field full of barbarians charging without fear onto an oncoming army of Celtic knights on their horses. One of the barbarians is Mario, a pretty nice fellow of Italian origin, with wife and two kids who - as you can see around 0:08 - really enjoys playing the harpsichord at his free time." Well there you have it, at 0:05 seconds we have a barbarian charge, and at 0:08 hey look! There's Mario!

the link is at youtube

Upcoming Music Shows@ Stubbs

http://www.stubbsaustin.com/music_home.html

lots of good music coming to Austin

~abby

Dubstep

Over the weekend I was introduced to some new artists. Most of these artists play a subgenre of electronic music, called dubstep. This video is one song I really enjoy, you may recognize the tune:

HEY guys. Here's a cat: