Tag: BAND

For any musician or band, the Internet has become the ultimate marketing tool. However, it's often been difficult to determine exactly how music fans were using the Web. Now, a new Web-based application hopes to change that. Next Big Sound tracks loads of data--page views, track plays, comments--from resources like iTunes, Facebook and Twitter. Then, it compiles these stats into helpful little ...

We'll admit, we reckoned we were coming along alright with our bar chords, but now we're teetering on the edge of just giving up. Yeah, we've seen robotic mechanisms programmed to make meaningful sounds before, but The Trons are a bona fide band, man. We hear they're going on tour as well -- talk about a guaranteed sell out. Totally killer Sister Robot video after the jump. [Source: YouTube] ...

Though you may not have ever heard of Jay Vance or his band Captured! By Robots, you definitely want to check them out on tour this fall just to see the spectacle. Day jobs, drugs and egos are a band's worst enemy, and Jay had enough. So, in 1997 he began constructing his army of back up bots. The 'band' is constructed with scrap metal and controlled by Vance via a system of pulleys and ...

If there's one thing the musician loves more than some good old-fashioned debauchery, it's his gadgets. So, on the very day his band's new album, 'A Modern Way of Living with the Truth,' hits store shelves, we're chatting with Freddy Herrera of L.A.-based rock outfit The Exies to get the lowdown on his favorite toys. What gadgets do you always bring with you on the road? Well, it seems that all ...