The ZIP download feature that allows you to download multiple songs at one time is temporarily offline. We’re working to get it back up. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience!
We need to do more work on the site than Devin and I can do on our own. So we thought we’d put the word out among musicians and fans to see if any of you are also programmers that want to get more involved with SongSlide.
We’re looking for programmers / web developers that are really into music to join the team and help us make improvements to the SongSlide site. Spread the word, especially to anyone you think might be a good fit.
Here is more description of the opportunity and what we’re looking for. Telecommuting is ok.
Rock
Pop
Rap & Hip-Hop
Alternative
Progressive Rock
Classical
We recently added a feature that allows fans to download mulitple songs at one time on SongSlide. Multiple songs can be selected and downloaded as a zip file. Look for the ‘Download Zip’ button at the bottom of your My Purchases page.
SongSlide just got a great mention today in a Seattle Times article all about the new trend of “pay what you want” that’s sweeping the nation. The stuff about us starts in the fourth paragraph.
Brooke Miller
“Her debut CD You Can See Everything is awash in mind blowing brilliance…Comparisons to Rickie Lee Jones, Sheryl Crow and Natalie Merchant are obvious but glimpses of Miller’s punk rock youth keep the disc from becoming too precious.”
Cold War Kids
“Reagan babies, missile fears, and international blues. Cold War Kids began in the fall of ‘04 with jangly guitar, handclaps, and a Harmony amp in a storage room atop a restaurant in Fullerton, CA…the sound and feeling was cultivated and burned, built and hallowed out, painted and stripped to the primer.”
Quintus
“This NYC-based group may have roots in the NYU jazz school and they might have abstract influences in such 80s pop bands as the Cars, but at the end of the day they have developed a style that is all their own.”
Resident Hero
“Resident Hero is a trio that challenges it’s genre to reclaim it’s importance in today’s media marketplace…they all give themselves to the belief in what they’re creating on stage.”
portal
“The band is influenced by all types of electronic, funk, hard rock, alternative, dance/trance/techno and psychedelic genres. ‘Our goal is to break free from the ordinary and experiment with sounds and rhythms to produce futuristic, hard-driving, instrumental songs.’”
SP
“Born and raised in South King County, WA. Comes with a laid bacc style and unique Northwest sound.”
Mystikman
“Through the eyes of Mystikman learn the truth about where we come from, who we are now, and what we are soon to become. Join him on his incredible journey.”
Lost On Purpose
“Lost on Purpose is a one-man indie band…yet another white guy chasing the dream of making music so as to avoid growing up and getting a ‘real’ job…By the way, he’s pretty good.”
London rock, experimental Americana, rockabilly jam ‘n roll, Klezmer…wow, we got it all this week. Check out the new SongSlide artists:
The Sneaks
“London / Auckland. 3 of us. The Galactic Council of the Nine. ‘They sound like someone took an axe to a 13 year old girl’s record collection and reassembled the debris’. Duncan Grieve, Editor, Real Groove Magazine.”
Lazybones
“…an organic blend of down home folkified bluesy grooves, rockabilly jam n’ roll, rusty funk to make you move. ”
Levi Fuller
“His music has been described as: ‘pulsing, experimental Americana’; ’somber elegant folk in league with Low, Black Heart Procession, Sixteen Horsepower, Red House Painters and Mountain Goats’; ‘a multi-layered undertaking full of wonderful metaphors and musical invention’…”
Matt Lord
“As much as there is 12 notes in a scale of western music, the combinations are vast… So Hopefully , you find my combination different. Hopefully Poignant , Poppy and true.”
Warren Project
“The brothers, Warren; have been creating music and performing since 1978…Playing progressive rock during the ‘grunge’ era at many local Seattle clubs including, Pier 70, Parkers, The Off Ramp, Mad Dogs, The Far Side and The OK Hotel, we played with many of the up and coming groups from the Seattle area.”
Annie Ford
“She grew up in rural Virginia playing the fiddle and over the years spent time in New Orleans and California experimenting with different genres of music. On this CD Annie performs and sings a variety of traditional Appalachian tunes, Klezmer, Cajun, and Ballads on Fiddle, Accordion, Banjo, Viola, and Guitar.”
If you’re looking for some great new rock/pop artists, look no further. A bunch of good ones signed up this week!
Check ‘em out:
Andrea Wittgens
“Incredible! Her songwriting sensibilities are the ilk of Edie Brickell, Carol Bayer Sager, and Joni Mitchell. And her voice just soars! You’ve got to invest your time to hear this.” — Q-tip (A Tribe Called Quest and solo Artist)
qatrpilr radio
“…it’s just like touching water for the first time, you never really get as wet again…”
The Way It Is
“Often addressing themes like romantic isolation, grade school angst and pop music overload, their electronic-tinged indie rock will leave you humming all the way home.”
Luke Sneyd
“From the opening rush of power pop anthem “Waiting” to the dark introspection of “Unknown”, All of Us Cities is a bright and polished alt-pop gem.”
i.bsteele
“Ever searching, ever questing, gentle lurching, never nesting. I am a riptide of curiosity, a disenfranchised wanderer who can never wander quite far enough to appease the silent screams.”
Here’s our new artists in the Rock/Pop genre:
Radio Nowhere
“Radio Nowhere is a rock/pop band from Oakland, California, in the United States. A friend told me that we sound like Pete Townshend produced by Prince, and that sums it up pretty well.”
Brett Bixby
“The lyrics profess a seasoned sensibility and the music deftly combines hues of folk, rock and pop into an honest blend of homegrown songs that will lull you from your sense of time…for fans of Neil Young, Ray Lamontagne, Jose Gonzalez, Elliot Smith…”
Inside the Black
“Inside The Black has set off to give you rock the way you like your sex: raw, sloppy and hard. Taking elements of blues, jazz and straight up rock and roll, the band creates a familiar, yet new take on hard rock. ”
sadbastardgoespop
” sadbastardgoespop is an indie rock band. Colin O’Day, vocals and guitar Jimmy Rochelle, drums John Sullivan, guitar and vocals Paul Lutts, bass and vocals We play frequently in the Boston area.”
Andrew Thompson Columbia Grove
“Songs by singer/songwriter/worship leader Andrew Thompson. Andrew is the lead pastor of Columbia Grove Covenant Church in East Wenatchee WA. All proceeds from the sale of these songs go to support Wenatchee Valley area outreach and community service.”
Here are the new SongSlide artists in Country and Old-Time:
Johnny Law
“Compare to: Steve Earle, Roger Waters, Mark Knopfler, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed. Real Songs about real life. Enjoy.”
Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers
“Americana can be a lot of things, and we tend towards the Alternative Country-Rockabilly style, if you will: country music like it was meant to be played. No big hats, no pyrotechnics, no choreography. Just honest original stripped down tunes.”
Atlas Stringband
“Atlas is a Seattle old-time stringband…Musical influences include: Arthur Smith, Tommy Jarrell, Benton Flippen, Ed Haley, John Salyer…Have a listen!”
