Antenna Alliance News http://antalliance.org Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:49:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en AntAlliance http://antalliance.org/?p=19 http://antalliance.org/?p=19#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:49:32 +0000 antalliance http://antalliance.org/?p=19 Antenna Alliance is tickled pink to introduce our newest friends, Cambridge-based band Trocadero. For those gamer nerds out there, Trocadero is the band that provides the music for the popular Halo machinima “Red vs. Blue“, but don’t let that lead you to any assumptions about their eclectic sounds. I have been a huge fan of them for some time now and am really, really happy to have them on board! Mp3s and more info are coming soon, we promise.

If you’re not a fan of Trocadero yet, you should check them out at TT The Bear’s Place (18+, bring ID) at 10 PM this Saturday, where they’ll play their first local show in 2 years. We’re hoping to get some live recordings out of it, but I hope to see you there anyway!

-Christina-

]]> http://antalliance.org/?feed=rss2&p=19 OH MAN THE SINISTER TURNS ARE PLAYIN’ http://antalliance.org/?p=18 http://antalliance.org/?p=18#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:26:14 +0000 antalliance http://antalliance.org/?p=18 Oh man, Sinister Turns, one of our awesomest members of the Alliance, is in the running in the Emergenza contest. Advancing to the next round depends on audience support, so it’d be awesome for all CC-friendly Free Culture folks to come out and see them in action.

Friday, Middle East Downstairs over in Central Square show’s at 8, tickets $10 if purchased from us (e-mail at thesinisterturns@gmail.com) or $15 at door.

SWEET — let us know if you’ve got any questions at antalliance@gmail.com

]]> http://antalliance.org/?feed=rss2&p=18 ROCKING NOISE SHOW http://antalliance.org/?p=17 http://antalliance.org/?p=17#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:16:14 +0000 antalliance http://antalliance.org/?p=17

Ant Alliance is rocking an awesome show this Wednesday that you should definitely check out.

MARCH 21 (THIS WEDNESDAY!):

FAT WORM OF ERROR
ACCENT OF THE FUTURE (from Evanston, IL)
HEATHEN SHAME
THE FACTS WE HATE
+TBA?

@ The Quincy Cage at Harvard
located at the intersection of Plympton St. and Mt. Auburn St.
follow the signs

7 PM doors
7:30 show, try to be on time
2-3$ donation (please)
no alcohol (sorry)
bring your friends!

]]> http://antalliance.org/?feed=rss2&p=17 One Show, Two AA artists! http://antalliance.org/?p=16 http://antalliance.org/?p=16#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:39:40 +0000 antalliance http://antalliance.org/?p=16 Hey everyone!

So we aren’t going to be in the habit of announcing each and every show that comes up for our talented artists, but I’m making an exception this time because I’m super excited, and because it’s SPECIAL. What makes this so special, you might ask?

Tomorrow, from 8:30-11:30 PM, you can see not just one, but TWO AntAlliance artists perform in the SAME PLACE! And we didn’t even coordinate this!

So come to the Quincy Cage (basement of Quincy House, 58 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA) to see both Robot Goes Here AND the Sinister Turns! Admission is free, but there will be CDs on sale that you should certainly buy if you’re into that kind of thing.

Keep on Rocking!
-Christina-

]]> http://antalliance.org/?feed=rss2&p=16 Infinite Lives Remix Kit Up! http://antalliance.org/?p=15 http://antalliance.org/?p=15#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:47:52 +0000 antalliance http://antalliance.org/?p=15 Mushroom Mushroom

Hey all you kids — just a heads up that the complete remix kit for the Blanks’ album “Infinite Lives” is now up for download on their artist page here. Features tons of drum, Moog, vocal, and other tracks to play with.

]]> http://antalliance.org/?feed=rss2&p=15 FreeMusic Project on Gizmodo http://antalliance.org/?p=14 http://antalliance.org/?p=14#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:59:48 +0000 antalliance http://antalliance.org/?p=14 SWEET!

Woo woo!

Also — randomly, we got a shoutout on an Italian tech magazine for our work on the Free Music Project. Here.

]]> http://antalliance.org/?feed=rss2&p=14 The Sinister Turns! http://antalliance.org/?p=13 http://antalliance.org/?p=13#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:23:21 +0000 antalliance http://antalliance.org/?p=13 Ant Alliance is ridiculously happy to announce that the Sinister Turns, a rocking Boston-area band, has released their newest EP, Turn to the Left, on the By-SA license. They’re getting involved in OLPC and we’re looking forward to having them on board. Check it out!

We’ve been talking to some huge bands about getting involved with OLPC and our Ant Alliance comps. The response has been really positive and we’re working on firming up the details. More news soon…

]]> http://antalliance.org/?feed=rss2&p=13 Ant Alliance and One Laptop Per Child Officially Announce Free Music Project http://antalliance.org/?p=12 http://antalliance.org/?p=12#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:50:10 +0000 antalliance http://antalliance.org/?p=12 OLPC

Woo woo! Press release that we’re sending out today. Tell your friends.

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FreeCulture.org Launches the Free Music Project

New website will let Internet users upload and share freely licensed music from all countries and genres

Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 27, 2007 — Freeculture.org announces the launch of a new website, http://freemusic.freeculture.org, dedicated to sharing great free music, encouraging artists to release music under free licenses, and providing access to recording and production time to artists releasing works under a free license. Users can upload music from their own computers or link to music on another website
distributing freely licensed music. Songs uploaded can be streamed, downloaded and remixed into new creative works.

The Free Music Project will collect and record free music for children. Selected songs uploaded to the site will be included in the first music library shipping with laptops from One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization devoted to improving education that is producing low-cost, high-quality computers to distribute to children and teachers in the developing world.

“This is a groundbreaking opportunity to locate the best free music out there and share it with millions of people of all ages around the world,” said Elizabeth Stark, board member of Freeculture.org and founder of the Free Culture group at Harvard. “Freely licensing recordings allows artists to gain extremely valuable global exposure through projects such as OLPC.”

Freeculture.org will also work with creators and musicians to record and license songs for the project, in collaboration with the music recording project Antenna Alliance. The Free Music Project site will provide access to uploaded music, and includes community-oriented functionality such as tagging, forums, and ratings. “This project not only marks a milestone in the position of free music worldwide, but also opens a vast universe of possibilities for the development of an international community of artists and producers committed to free culture,” said Tim Hwang, President of Antenna Alliance.

For more information:

FreeCulture.org is an international organization that promotes the creation of a thriving cultural commons, in part by encouraging the use of free licenses by artists and creators. (http://www.freeculture.org)

Antenna Alliance is a Boston-based recording label that records, promotes, and distributes freely licensed music online and across a nationwide network of radio stations. (http://www.antalliance.org)

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization created by Nicholas Negroponte and other faculty members from the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture, and distribute laptop computers that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world with access to knowledge and tools for learning and exploration. (http://www.laptop.org)

Contact: freemusic@freeculture.org
Elizabeth Stark, Freeculture.org (917-628-6238)
Tim Hwang, Antenna Alliance (973-960-4955)

]]> http://antalliance.org/?feed=rss2&p=12 Ant Alliance Goes West http://antalliance.org/?p=11 http://antalliance.org/?p=11#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:54:01 +0000 antalliance http://antalliance.org/?p=11 Hey kids — just some miscellaneous Ant Alliance updates –

First off, and most awesomely, Ant Alliance is proud to officially annouce that it’s partnering up with Max Berger over in Portland, Oregon to expand the reach of our copyleft recording label model out west. He’s doing some really cool work in founding a Free Culture chapter over in Reed College and is currently in the process of putting together a recording studio that will serve as the Alliance’s touchpoint for bands in that area of the country. If you’re in the area and interested in getting involved, definitely shoot him an e-mail at bergerm@reed.edu

Also, last week we met up with Kevin, who is heading up the radio station prison project in Jamaica. He’s really excited to work with us to get the audio into the States and to try to develop cooperation between artists here who might be interested in remixing the vocals and drum tracks that they’ll be recording. We’re starting the process of trading e-mails and hashing out the details, and should have more for you in the coming few days.

Finally, The Mafia, Ant Alliance’s slickest ska band EVAR, is now up for download under a By-SA license. Rock it out kids.

For all the audio going up — if you’re interested in/already are remixing — we’d be really happy to hear from you. There’s some talk that we might want to do a Ant Alliance remix compilation, so, let us know.

-Tim-

]]> http://antalliance.org/?feed=rss2&p=11 ALL SYSTEMS GO http://antalliance.org/?p=10 http://antalliance.org/?p=10#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:09:23 +0000 antalliance http://antalliance.org/?p=10 Woohoo — so, way sorry about the delay — but we should be regularly blogging from here on in since our site is now officially live and rolling. We’ve published stuff from two awesome affiliate bands, Robot Goes Here and Blanks, and more stuff will be coming online in the next few weeks as we post everything.

In other news, Dani Capalbo, student journalist at Northeastern and all around awesome person, has been blogging about the development of Ant Alliance and other issues surrounding free music at A Free Sound

For all you kids in Boston, we’ll be holding a dinner discussion about the role of the music label in an era of democratizing production and distribution as part of the Beyond Broadcast conference happening this weekend over at MIT. It’ll be at La Groceria restaurant at 853 Main Street in Cambridge this Saturday at 7:45 PM. Let us know you’ll be coming at antalliance@gmail.com, if you’re interested.

The other dinners are also posing some pretty interesting questions — check ‘em out here

-Tim-

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