Discover new music from TV commercials

Music from TV commercials on Squidoo
As radio continues to get stale, ironically, the best new music is showing up in commercials. It's rare that the artists get credit for the funky music that makes the commercials "cool".

Who are these artists? N.E.R.D., Flaming Lips, Matthew Dear, Wilco, Teddybears, Ok Go, MSTRKRFT, Brazilian Girls, The Helio Sequence, Yoshida Brothers, Wolfmother, Ozomatli, Goldfrapp, CocoRosie, Royksopp, Dizzy Gillespie, and The Polyphonic Spree, to name just a few of the artists featured here.

This Squidoo Lens has TONS of current and classic TV ads with great music. The clips come from YouTube and elsewhere, and have the names of the songs and the artists. For you marketing, film and design junkies, the ads that get the best music also often have some of the best visual concepts.

So, go ahead! Enjoy the commercials without the guilt!

Today's Link source: Squidoo Lens of the Day

How To Make Your YouTube Videos Look Great -Week of YouTube Day 7

How To Make YouTube Videos Look Great on Squidoo
If you're a YouTube submitter or a video producer of any kind, consider the top tips from Squidoo on how to make your video footage look its best online. Learn from the best.

Today's Link source: Squidoo Lens of the Day

4th of July BBQ Recipes

Looking for a Great Barbecue Recipe? on Squidoo

Happy Fourth of July to all of our American friends! Happy summer to non-American, Northern Hemisphere friends!

Break out those barbecues and get cooking! Today's link is from the wonderful Squidoo, and has 5 great barbecue recipes. There are awesome BBQ sauce recipes, a great Dijon Mustard BBQ rub recipe, and directions how to cook amazing barbecue pork, chicken and beef ribs.

Yummy! Enjoy!

Today's Link source: Squidoo Lens of the Day

Why Squidoo rocks - "Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal"

Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal on Squidoo

They say that the web is infinitely wide, but only an inch deep. Squidoo is one of the exceptions. People pick a topic- let's say "Greece". Then they create a "Lens" that focuses on their topic in as much detail as they wish. Lenses can include text, photos, annotated lists of links or relevant books, etc. Some people abuse Squidoo for spammy purposes, but it should be judged on it's successes, rather than the abuses.

Today's link is a woman's travelogue of her visit to Greece, with gorgeous pictures and descriptions of her travels. Greek Geek relates her travels with Greek history and mythology, and makes it so easy to get caught up in the romance and the wonder of her journey. It'll be essential reading whenever I decide to make the voyage to Greece.

Today's Link source: Squidoo Lens of the Day daily email

19 Killer Links for Remixing Music

The Linkjockey has been getting a lot of links lately about remixes, so I decided to create a big list of resources for you if you're interested in manipulating sounds to create something new. Here are 19 places you can go to get started, or take your remixing skills further. I will publish and promote anything you create as a result of this post.

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Recording Software

1. Audacity
Open source, free digital audio editor and processor for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux

2. Ardour
Free multi-track software for MacOS X and Linux

3. Mixere
Free, open-source Windows NT/2000/XP application for mixing audio files

4. Pro Tools Free
Still available for older operating systems including Macintosh OS 9 (up to 40 MB total) and Windows 98/Me (up to 32 MB total)

5. Computer Music magazine (UK)
While the magazine is not free, it always comes with a CD-Rom or DVD of free software and samples that makes it worth the cover price

Audio Samples

6. ccMixter
Killer site with lots of tracks to remix, samples to download and remixes to listen to, all free and available under Creative Commons license

7. SampleSwap.org
Free audio samples

8. Real World Remixed Download
Download and remix tracks from Peter Gabriel's Real World label

9. University of Iowa Music Instrument Samples
Samples of orchestral instruments

10. SampleNet.co.uk download site
One of the granddaddies of free sample downloads

11. My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Download and remix tracks from Brian Eno and David Byrne

12. Internet Audio Archive
AMAZING massive archive of all sorts of free audio files, including: poetry, radio shows, live music, foreign language and spoken word. It's the best! Be aware that not everything is Creative Commons.

13. Beastie Boys A Cappella Download Page
Remix Beastie Boys tracks

13b. Splice - Meet. Mix. Mashup.
A remixing-specific community with sample exchanges, forums and finished remixes.

Killer Resources

14. OpenSonics - Open Music Community News and Copyleft Resources on Squidoo
A Squidoo lens promoting awareness of freely available music, audio services, video and software within the Open Music/ Creative Commons community.

15. Free Sounds: Legal Audio Samples, Loops, Freeware, Music and Video Downloads on Squidoo
Another Squidoo lens with links to some great sites for audio samples and software

16. Dave's Imaginary Sound Space
A long link list of more technical sites with free software, plugins, DSP and recording resources


Other

17. FreeCulture.org Manifesto

18. Creative Commons
The legal alternative to Copyright

19. sounds like silver : lcd soundsystem remixed
Unofficial remixes of LCD Soundsystem's "Sounds of Silver" cd, available for free download. Same people that remixed albums by the Prodigy and Chemical Brothers. Good stuff!