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The Birth of Surf $11.05 Newly compiled by Pipeline Magazine, Ace Records’ CD “The Birth Of Surf” traces the evolution of instrumental surf music from its rock’n'roll roots through to the minor classics and big surf hits of its peak year in 1963. It includes rockin’ contributions from influential guitar stars Duane Eddy, Link Wray, the Ventures and the Fireballs, early surf from Californian group the Tornadoes, the … |
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Lost Legends of Surf Guitar 1: Big Noise From $12.34 Vintage surf and hot rod guitar instrumentals**CD has 20 songs**… |
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Thicker Than Water $5.93 Those who know Jack Johnson only as college radio fave are in for a pleasant surprise here, as are wave-riding aficionados with a taste for eclectic, cooled-out musical vibes. The project Surfer magazine hailed as 2000’s Video of the Year was originally a collaboration between surfing champ/then-USC film student Johnson and school colleagues Chris and Dan Malloy. But Johnson also gratifyingly took… |
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Barbie in a Mermaid Tale $7.31 BarbieTM stars as MerliahTM, a surfing champion from Malibu. One minute she’s a normal teenager and the next she learns a shocking family secret: she’s a mermaid! MerliahTM and her dolphin friend Zuma set off on an undersea adventure to rescue her mother, the queen of Oceana. With help from her new mermaid friends, MerliahTM saves the ocean kingdom. In the end, she discovers what makes you differe… |
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Shelter $13.77 The feature-film debut from art director Jonah Markowitz (Quinceañera) pivots on the tension between responsibility to family and responsibility to self. Recent high-school graduate Zach (Trevor Wright) has one summer to reconcile the competing halves of his life. The aspiring Picasso lives in blue-collar San Pedro with his irresponsible sister, Jeanne (Tina Holmes, Half Nelson), her five-year-ol… |
“Let It Last ” Original song to honor “The Beach Boys” (surf music rock demo)
Revolutionizing Online Music
Downloading free music has become increasingly more difficult
since the demise of Napster, Ares, Kazaa and other
downloading websites, which are not only illegal but load
your computer with viruses. Apple’s popular program iTunes is
a legal and easy way to download music, but it costs 99 cents
per song. The lack of options leaves many music lovers
searching for something better.
These and other concerns were on the mind of music lover,
engineer and alum of the Forestry School at Syracuse University
Andrew Lombardo (brother of Phil Lombardo ‘05), when he began
researching ways to create a downloading website that would
benefit not just downloaders, but musicians and advertisers as
well. After several years of research and hard work, his final
product, Zaziggy.com, is available for public use.
Zaziggy.com is a different kind of music downloading website.
With his self-run company, Rockstar Technologies, and his
partner Shirley Ma (a patent attorney) Lombardo has created a
partnership between advertisers, downloaders and up-and-coming
artists. The artists range in genre from acoustic, acoustic rock,
country, emo, hip hop, metal, piano, piano acoustic, pop, rap,
rock, surf and surf acoustic, to appeal to all sorts of music
interests.
To sign up, you simply have to go to Zaziggy.com and fill out a
brief survey, whose purpose is to pair your interests up with
an advertiser. The survey, which is worlds more fun than the
average demographics survey, allows users to get their music for
free. Here’s how Zaziggy works: while downloading a song a user
is paired up with an advertisement for a product based on his or
her interests, which are determined based on the survey. This
allows companies to target their advertisements to their desired
demographic. Additionally, artists receive a royalty each time
someone downloads one of their songs and they are able to access
the demographics of the people who like their music.
According to the website, “the money made off of the sponsored
download is split 50/50 with the artists,” who maintain artistic
control because Rockstar Technologies does not buy the rights
to the songs. Because they make money off of the downloads,
this website makes it possible for musicians to benefit from
a music downloading website. And the downloads are perfectly
legal. The best part is that each week new artists will be
added to the website, so users can always anticipate something
new. This way, Zaziggy.com provides a way for savvy people to
discover new music without having to listen to the radio.
The website, which features clever graphics and just the right
amount of humor, is easy and fun to use. Zaziggy.com indicates
the top downloads in each genre, and recommends artists that
you may like. Different artists are featured at the top of
the page, along with a short biography.
If you are interested in music in any way, this website is
worth looking into. For more information, check out
rockstartechnologies.com/bands/. You can find out more fun
facts about Zaziggy.com, as well as enjoy some great animation.
Or, if you are an artist or an advertiser who is interested
in becoming a part of Zaziggy.com, this link has all the
information you need to get involved:
rockstartechnologies.com/help. Included on the page are ways
to help spread the word about this innovative new website.
Lombardo is always looking for more artists and advertisers
to become part of the project, as the partnership is
beneficial to everyone involved. Zaziggy.com may just be the
best thing so far to happen to music-lovers!
Article written By Kate Jurras.
About the Author
New music to listen to?
I’m not one to listen to artists very well know today. Kelly Clarkson, Lil Wayne, Pink etc.. I think most of it is total crack. (No offense to anyone who likes that kind of music.)
Anyway, my type of music consists of Imogen Heap, Greg Laswell, Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service, Band Of Horses, Coconut Records, Mae, The Shins, Air Traffic, Belle & Sebastian, City And Colour, Coldplay, In-Flight Safety, We Are Scientists, The Kooks, The Feeling, The Decemberists, Plushgun, Muse, Nada Surf, and MGMT. There are more but my mind is blank right now.
So if you could just give me a few names of bands or more if possible, that would be great. 
Please don’t list like.. a hundred bands. I just want a few that are very good.
Thank you.
Carolina liar
Secondhand Serenade
The Whigs
Scott Weiland
Safetysuit
Needtobreathe
The Classic Crime
Marcy Playground
try www.pandora.com
