Antenna Alliance News

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-

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-

Some of you might remember a certain incident in which a set of 40 LED boards with Mooninites on them essentially shut down Boston. It caused a big hubblaboo and made the normally very friendly Deval Patrick declare, “It’s a hoax – and it’s not funny”

Christopher, one of Ant Alliance’s most upright dudes, was fortunate enough to get his hands on one of the two remaining Ignignokt’s that weren’t confiscated and blown to bits by the bomb squad.

Beyond being pretty sweet, this has, needless to say, has led to alot of publicity. To that end, Christopher’s general strategy has been to plug Ant Alliance left and right.

So, check us out at Wired and Northeastern News (registration needed)

Huuuuge. We’re way happy for the attention, and are busily working on the big website release, hopefully in the next week or so.

-Tim-