The Carnival Of Music, Part 3

First of all, apologies for the lack of posting this week - I decided to rebuild my computer in the middle of the week and ended up with no sound, which isn’t great when you’re wanting to listen to music online! I still need to roughly quadruple the memory if I want to get halfway decent performance on it.

But enough about me, let’s get started with the latest carnival of music. This is our 3rd Carnival of Music on Unreality Music.

Today’s carnival comes under a couple of headings. Here they are:

Write About An Artist

• FitBuff (you heard right) has submitted a post telling us how the New York Jets are training to Mozart, which as any music buff will know is supposed to aid learning. I dare say that’s an unconventional approach to sports training…
• Deepak has dedicated an entire post to the Indian composer Madan Mohan. Nice to see some ethnic music make the list, but it would have been nicer to see some links to audio or video examples of Mohan’s work.
• We commented on Sir Elton’s desire to shut down the Internet earlier this week, but the Geek Sisters wanted to have their say too. Fine by us.

Unsigned Bands

• Patrick Silvestri writes in with a post about why bands shouldn’t try to get signed. Part 1 of Patrick’s series exposes the lesser-known aspects of record deals that people generally aren’t aware of.
• This next one almost deserves a post of its own - Sarah Wessman posts about Redmask’s aim of selling a million albums and showing the rest of the world that you CAN sell records without a major label deal. If I could make one comment guys - get some pictures up there, get a MySpace page, give us some free MP3s. It’s a great idea, but there’s more work to do!
• I loved Christine Kane’s post “How to play for 5,000 people who have no clue who you are“. Catchy title. Christine has 6 useful tips for your performance.
• Here’s a post from an unsigned artist - Arun wanted to share a story about his singing tendencies and a little clip of one of his songs.

Record Reviews

• Here’s a list of weird album reviews over at Zed Sounds. You know it’s weird when you’ve got Uri Geller’s album listed.

So, that’s it for part 3 of our music carnival. I’m thinking the carnival needs a little logo to give it some identity. Anyone fancy putting something together for us?

Footnote: Rickey didn’t exactly post anything that fit our categories, but he did write about the new streaming gadget that he has on his blog from last.fm. And since it’s Rickey, I let that post slip through…

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