Blog: Max Bumps

Congratulations to our second annual The Sixty One Fantasy Football champion Clancy490 ! At #4, she was the lowest seed in the playoffs, clancy490 orchestrated a come-from-behind victory to capture the crown. This is the second time in t61 fantasy football history that the lowest seed claims the victory. Clancy490 impressively defeated Eloqu3nt in the championship, winning 120 to 88. Liquidtrailz placed third for the second year in a row. The following players participated in this season of fantasy football: forgottenprince clancy490 Imonlysleeping Eloqu3nt lankysob sf49rox Liquidtrailz listen davyhamburgers strick414 [...]

Rating (out of five stars) **** Eight songs, one hundred cassettes, thousands of hearts. So go the statistics for Shael Riley and the Double Ice Backfire's album Songs from the Pit . An album of eight songs, released in a limited-edition set of a hundred cassettes, and put up in digital form on thesixtyone.com where the songs reached a few thousand hearts--each. "Hold on," you're saying, "am I reading this right? They released an album, in the year 2009, as a cassette ?" Sure--why not? The original explanation [...]

I've been looking forward to this album from Dave Grohl's new supergroup Them Crooked Vultures. Check it out! ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and other hot topics with other listeners and artists! ------------------------------ --------------------------

This one is best watched full screen. Lots of sci-fi effects and laser beams. Woo hoo! It's a lot of fun and the compositor did an amazing job.... and I dig The Bravery. I hate that AOL makes you watch a full commercial before the video. Seriously annoying. I'd link somewhere else but AOL has the premiere up today. Boo hoo. ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and other hot topics with other listeners and artists! ------------------------------ --------------------------

Dicky Moore's latest musical project Bearcraft has a great song called Bright Eyes that you can download for free. I love Dicky's voice. It's so smooth. I'm a sucker for a good synth. :-) Download Brighteyes . Bearcraft on Facebook ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and other hot topics with other listeners and artists! ------------------------------ --------------------------

They send me tracks from Buffetlibre all the time but I don't always post them. I thought you might be in the mood for a nice remix today. Download Dragonette - Easy (Buffetlibre Remix) - right click or command click to download ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and other hot topics with other listeners and artists! ------------------------------ --------------------------

• Dragonette - Easy (Buffetlibre Remix)

This band, shakeys brother, makes classic indie pop and I just love their sound. They are unsigned and usually play to crowds of 50 or so, but get this.... they're nominated for 2 Grammys ! skakeys brother MySpace Looks like they need some videos. Hey, shakeys brother, I do video! ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and other hot topics with other listeners and artists! ------------------------------ --------------------------

If the Pogues and Violent Femmes had a baby, it would sound like Harley Poe. Some of the video below isn't of the best quality, but it gives you a taste of Harley Poe. Thanks to Scott at Postapalooza for the recommendation. Corpse Grinding Man A Vampire's Night Out Here's Transvestites can be Cannibals too. Check em out! LastFM iLike [...]

Posted on Facebook by a friend. Beautiful stuff, wonderful lyrics. Reminds me a bit of "Something I can Never Have" by Nine Inch Nails. ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and other hot topics with other listeners and artists! ------------------------------ --------------------------

I follow Curt Smith of Tears for Fears on Twitter (@curtsmith) and he said Pomplamoose was his favorite new band. Pamplamoose consists of Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn. Nataly's vocals are fantastic. Jack seems to do all of the instrumentation. Original stuff. What's not to like?! What do you think? Here's Nature Boy, a song made famous by Nat King Cole. Gorgeous. Get a free MP3 of the song at their MySpace Page . ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and [...]

I interviewed singer/songwriter Joshua James at the Intersection in Grand Rapids, Mi, on October 1, 2009. Very nice guy, down-to-earth and mindblowingly talented. His performance was so emotive and rockin'. I was blown away! ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and other hot topics with other listeners and artists! ------------------------------ --------------------------

For Chicago band I Fight Dragons, saving the world--and sounding great--is all in a day's work. This week I caught up with lead singer Brian Mazzaferri, who explains the band's mix of pop-rock and sweeping electronic melodies--those cute beeps and bloops from old video games. "When I heard the distinctive waveforms and patterns of the NES soundcard growing up, it was always associated with adventure, with epic journeys," he said. The band channels that energy into their songs, be they clever tributes to video games or just plain knock-your-socks-off rock. To play the NES components of the songs [...]

Heartstorm is a user-driven quest on thesixtyone.com. Basically, the purpose is to spotlight old, underbumped songs. Every day, someone features 1-3 songs that need love, and the community storms them with hearts. The quest is a great way to get the community together and discover some really interesting music. The first round was an incredible success, with many songs posting and hitting the "hot right now" page. Every participant recieved pages of notes and radio bumps from many different social groups. Someone asked if we're still doing it, and yes, we are. Here's the [...]

Really cool effects. She's running inside a zoetrope, of course, I probably just ruined the illusion for you. You just have to see it. I hope the annoying ads don't drive you crazy. ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and other hot topics with other listeners and artists! ------------------------------ --------------------------

The Sixty One listener Esteban Diacono ( teb34 ) has created a gorgeous experimental video for classical musician Olafur Arnalds' Ljosio . He uses Trapcode Sound Keys and Particular v2 to create this organic look. Absolutely beautiful work, Esteban. ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and other hot topics with other listeners and artists! ------------------------------ --------------------------

Rockin' synthy goodness. ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and other hot topics with other listeners and artists! ------------------------------ --------------------------

Really close. He's mindblowingly talented! Lots to update you on. More later. ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and other hot topics with other listeners and artists! ------------------------------ --------------------------

The band is rockin with a bit of a psychedelic sound. I might make comparisons to Oasis, but a bit harder. Jet? They do have their own sound. I quite enjoyed them. The band is Lead by Dhani Harrison, son of a Beatle. I'm sure George is here in Spirit. ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and other hot topics with other listeners and artists! ------------------------------ --------------------------

I'm ready to hit day 2 of Lollapalooza and got this email below. I hope the whole thing posts. I had major connection problems yesterday at the show and I only got a partial posting. Here's the email. --- On Aug 7, 2009, at 1:36 PM, "Carrie Lynch" wrote: Hey - I saw your post [ http://www.maxbumps.net/2009/0 8/lollapalooza-weekend.html ] about going [...]

Just caught Manchester Orchestras set. They sounded phenomenal. I was very impressed with singer Andy Hulls voice, strong and clear, sometimes gritty. Great loud guitar sound, just like I like it, with soaring crescendos. ------------------------------ -------------------------- Visit the MaxBumps.net Forum to discuss The Sixty One Artists and other hot topics with other listeners and artists! ------------------------------ --------------------------