Blog: Atom Sounds Music News

The popular Atom Sounds Indie Music forums have been updated today to the latest version of the PHPBB forums software. All previous posts and users information has been transferred/upgraded and is now live, we have some great sections in the forums including music resources, OMD sites, CD Retail services, DIY Promotion tips and more, as well [...]

"Yampapaya" is the extraordinary result of a collaboration between two artists from different cultures: David James Hoffman, an American singer and songwriter, and Augustin Bizimana (Bixas Liberatore), a singer and songwriter from the Congo. The group's roots go back to 1984 when David James Hoffman followed his father, an American diplomat, to China where he [...]

All Corrientes music is recorded, mixed, and produced by Ivette Torres in a home studio. Ivette is a Cuban-American born and raised in NY. So far the majority of Corrientes songs are in English, however, we are planning to create more songs in Spanish in the future. There is a section on the Corrientes website [...]

Electronica duo Remergence have released their album The Remixes as an exclusive free download at Project Overseer Productions, the album features a collection of remixes of tracks taken from the previous albums by Remergence over the years, but, remixed to give the tracks a new twist, some are extended tracks while others are new mixes [...]

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SKY News reports the body of 31-year-old Jason Rae was found around 3:15 PM Saturday, a victim of an apparent drug overdose. Cops reportedly arrested a 32-year-old man for "supplying controlled substances." He was then released on bail. No word on if his wife was at home.read more | digg story

CLING an uplifting amalgamation of Massive Attack, Lamb, Jazzanova and Dubstar with a welcome touch of the unknown. CLING skilfully build songs that are deceptively light but in fact contain real depth and texture, the layers of cleverly programmed sounds successfully contrasting and complementing in equal measure.Warm, unusual and beguiling. Check out the Official website, ReverbNation [...]

This was a question I asked myself for a while after someone told me they could do it with their iPod Shuffle, so after many attempts at looking through iTunes and trying out different options, I thought maybe it can't be done, maybe there isn't a way to auto fill your iPod Nano and train [...]

Electronic duo Cling now have their music at We7, here at Atom Sounds we highly recommend that you stop on by and check out their tracks, just click the banner below to be taken to their page for some audio delight We7 is a website that supplies free music to the consumer and still [...]

Make your own techno songs with big beats, storming bases. Go on, make your own hits.read more | digg story

I'm losing my religion over the record industry, and it seems like everybody hurts. But R.E.M. reaches into the great beyond, streaming its upcoming album for free a week prior to its release and inking a deal to get more of its music into video games. The band's manager talks to Ars about R.E.M.'s plans.read [...]

If you love psychedelia and rock'n'roll, but above all if you want to listen to a stupendous female voice (a mixture of Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, PJ Harvey, Chrissie Hynde, and a female version of Robert Plant) then Alix is your band. Imagine a dinner party with 2/4 of the first edition of Fu Manchu, [...]

CDs are fine things for listening to and archiving, but they're bulky. Think of all the shelf space you could free up if that digital music resided on one little hard drive rather than hundreds of boxed-up plastic discs. It's a commitment, but putting all your music on a computer has advantages besides space savings...read [...]

Akashic Crow's Nest is one of several recording projects undertaken by C.P. McDill (other projects include Saluki Regicide, Djinnestan, Rowboat Magicians, Tree Helicopter and Rolling Calf Sinfonette). Representing a specific facet of McDill's experimentation with sound, ACN tracks are produced by converting visual images into sound, [...]

From turning down the Beatles to stomping Napster — the most ill-advised, foolhardy and downright idiotic decisions ever made by The Man. read more | digg story

I always love a really wasted rock star who completely embarrasses themselves.read more | digg story