Mike McCready

Unless you live in a cave and don’t have cable you have probably seen this video. Funny stuff. Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today!

There’s a documentary that you can probably find on Pay-Per-View Movies or Movies On Demand or whatever your cable company calls them. It’s called “Collapse” and to say it was thought-provoking is an understatement. If you don’t read any further or do anything else, do yourself the favor of watching the trailer video below.

This is scary stuff! I fly transatlantic all the time on Delta / Northwest. I take an Ambien and I sleep. I also wear earplugs. If the guy that tried to bring this plane down had been sitting next to me I probably would have slept right through it. I hate airports. I hate all the [...]

This snowman got my attention. It was especially out of place on the 2nd Avenue sidewalk near 30th Street.

I’ve noticed a minor trend in Spanish language music becoming more influenced by American and British Pop and it is creating some very interesting fusion sounds and styles. I think we’re going to hear more of it in the near future.

Audiosocket will export much of its catalog to Music Xray, creating a unique song presentation pack for each title. Audiosocket artists will then be able to fill in additional data fields (lyrics, bio, notes and metadata) as well as to track metrics and stats (Twitter mentions, blog mentions, P2P traders, Myspace views and comments).

Hit Song Science: The problem with a computer reading waveforms is that it “has no common sense,” summarizes Mike McCready, a founder of a company called Music Xray, a digital-music business for entertainment companies and artists. “It doesn’t take into consideration whether the artist is just starting out or they’re at the pinnacle of their career, it doesn’t take into consideration what they wore to the Grammys or who they’re dating or what they look like or what their age is. You have to factor all of this stuff in.

In Spain you NEVER see pictures of the first family’s children. José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister doesn’t allow it. However, this week in New York at the UN Sumit Spain’s first family had their picture taken with Barack and Michelle Obama and The US State Department posted the photo on Flickr. Of [...]

Here’s a little departure from the norm on this blog but I just had to put this up. If you haven’t seen this already you must. Great song. Great video!

Sometimes it takes a couple listens for a song to sink in; to grow on you. Then a there are songs you just can’t get out of your head after one listen. Germans call that kind of song an ear worm because it bores into your brain and begs another and another listen. “Human Drama” by [...]