Archive for January, 2008

Brooke Miller Will Melt Your Soul

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

brooke miller flying hairBrooke Miller hasn’t graced the pages of the *NEW* audiobee.com yet, except in the buy links on the left, and that’s a shame. She’s our favorite (and only true) country artist, and she’s an incredibly gifted songwriter and singer. Her debut album “You Can See Everything” (not in a Britney Spears / Lindsey Lohan way) is available now. She hails from Prince Edwards Isle in Canada and writes songs you may have heard in the movies or on TV in The L Word or First Wives Murder Club. I know our readers have a huge demographic cross-over with those shows. Ladies love AudioBee.com

Here is the title track | You Can See Everything on MP3

And a bit more jammin’ | World on a Whim on MP3

Buy “You Can See Everything” on Amazon MP3 

Sometimes I Stare at the Screen, and now Textango and Turntable Labs are Staring Back

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Looking for something to write about. Might as well give you some news on the “biz” rather than just the “muz.” DashGo is rolling out to a couple new partners this week: Textango & Turntable Labs. Now you won’t see the entire catalog up on either, because these sites do a little bit more curatorial work around their music. So while we love all our bands (except one, and they know who they are.) Textango and TTL are taking a tiny selection that fits into their schemes.

Textango serves up MP3s via PSMS (that’s premium sms) billed to your cellphone. We’re going to test some keyword placements on YouTube videos for Coconut Records, Slackstring and Delicious Vinyl to see if the people watching do some mobile buying. Their mobile account will be billed, and they’ll be able to download mp3s from the web. Cool, huh?

The folks at Turntable Labs sell super duper hi-fi WAV and MP3 files of hip-hop and dance, techno music. We’re rolling out the Downtown Records catalog to them and the Delicious Vinyl catalog as well (including some super-rare never before released on CD or digital 12 inches). Keep checking here and we’ll let you know when you can buy.

As if you’re checking here all the time. Silly me. You have friends.

Coco for Coconuts…iTunes & Imeem

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

So lots of Coconuts love this week. Post-Cloverfield, we decided to jump on the bandwagon and post “Rob’s Party Mix” on Imeem.com - well on our page on Imeem, coconutrecords.imeem.com

It’s embedded below so you can rock out to. And yes, we’ll be adding Moby’s “Disco Lies” soon.

Feel like spending money? Then pop on over to iTunes where you can buy the Cloverfield Mix, which features “West Coast”

And that’s not all, iTunes dropped Nighttiming into their weekly update of Hot Indie bands in the Alternative section. We’re sweating. Thanks Cupertino.

New Muzak Tuesday. Such a silly, stupid day to release new music.

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

So for obscure retail reasons, Tuesday is the day new music comes out. Maybe I’ll explain it to you all one day, but I don’t have time right now. Once I ducked out of high school physics, and drove across town to buy the new RATM record…now you just have to find the password to the wi-fi in the teacher’s lounge to get your fix.

New from Audio Bee this week:

WCC CoverBenny Strange: When Continents Collide EP. Benny is is a perennial winner on social music contesting site (seriously, that’s a whole category now) Ourstage.com. In fact, he’s currently top 3 in Pop. Go vote for him and send him to SXSW. Download “Sifting” on mp3 | Buy on iTunes | Buy on AmieStreet | www.bennystrange.com

IFTTM Cover Art

Adjoa Skinner is new to Molly Malones Music. She’s got a semi-permanent Monday night residency at, surprise, Molly Malones, so please stop by if you are in LA. Want tickets? I’ll get you in for free if you post a comment here.  Her debut single “I’d Fly to the Moon” is available now on iTunes | Visit her on MySpace | www.mollymalonesmusic.com

Holy Mixtape, Batman! Playlist.com Featured our Music

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

playlist homepage featureIf you squint real hard at the image to your left you’ll see three Audio Bee tracks on the homepage of www.playlist.com (or you can just click that link). They were so very, very nice (see how we almost never post about mean people here?) to us and featured two of Delicious Vinyl’s killer new tracks - “House Shoes” from Gangsta Rap (the video, below, is hilarious) and the Peaches / Tone-Loc “Wild Thing RMX.”

And they gave love to the little guy too, giving Trip Hizzle one of his first looks by including the track “Whose Streets” from his EP Greetings from New Jeruz. <–buy on iTunes

Now the moment you’ve all been waiting for…the video for “House Shoes”

Alexa Ray Joel…NEW! to Clear Channel, Known to Audio Bee

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

arj photoWe’ve been working with the lovely Alexa Ray Joel for over a year and in that time she’s graced Rolling Stone, Jimmy Kimmel and Perez Hilton. Guess which one got the most attention? Anyway, our friends at Clear Channel Online took notice and gave her a coveted spot in their NEW! series online, where her song “For All My Days” from her forthcoming debut is available to hear. And it’s currently Top 10 on their NEW! charts. Does that mean you’ll hear it on the radio? Or see it on a billboard? Or wherever else the Clear Channel marketing machine broadcasts? We don’t know. But when we sleep our ClearChannel BrainPowerAds tell us that Alexa’s magic and so is Papa Enrico’s Stupendous Flan.

Buy “For All My Days” on iTunes

Delicious Vinyl : the Fuzz Dekorator

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Our buddies at Fuzz.com made a (choose your own retro hip-hop adjective: dope / ill / sick / funky) playlist for us for DV’s 20th anniversary…featuring 4 new and classic DV tracks from Fatlip to Gang$ta Rap, it’s tricked out with Delicious Vinyl classic covers. Hit deliciousvinyl.fuzz.com to make your own and share your favorite DV tracks!

Ok Ladies (and Guys)…don’t all go downloading Reeve Oliver at once and break the internet

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Reeve XmasI’ve been looking for an excuse to post more about one of our favorite (new to us) bands, Reeve Oliver. The San Diego trio just put out a killer sophomore album called Touchtone Inferno (buy it on iTunes) that was recorded at Capitol Studios on EMI’s dime. I guess they are part of the 30% that according to Guy Hands “never actually release records.” Well, if EMI would stop sitting on their Hands (hahaha I’m so clever) and actually release music instead of bands from contracts, they might be enjoying some Reeve Oliver…

…just like the folks in San Diego are, where Sean, lead singer, was named one of the “Top SD Bachelors” by DiscoverSD.com

If you want to date Sean, you should probably bone up on Reeve Oliver first. Start with this free* (on the honor system of telling 5 friends and eventually buying the record) download of “Yer Motion” in mp3 format.

Buy “Touchtone Inferno” on Amazon

Another week…oops, it’s only Thursday

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Well we’ve wrapped up another fun week at Audio Bee. Damn. It’s Thursday. I always do that. We’ve been doing some work with the talented Rivers Cuomo and managing a little podcast for him at www.riverspodcast.com

We just uploaded the latest episode from Japan. (We weren’t in Japan, Rivers was*)

*editor’s note, I actually was in Japan, at the airport, for 8 hours on January 8th, 2008. But Rivers wasn’t there then, and this was probably recorded before that.

Audio Bee on ReverbNation

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

We’re slowly catching on to this “internet” thing. (oh wait, that’s all we do). Anyway … here’s our newly refreshed ReverbNation.com page (and widget) with music from Reeve Oliver, Slackstring, Marina V and more…


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