Posted by admin on 11 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: gadgets, tip
I took some time at Midem 2010 to put a question to David Stark, publisher of SongLink. His tipsheet provides some of the best tips in the business, hooking up major artists with songs. The “names” have included Tina Tuner, James Blunt, Kim Wilde and many others. Publishers and songwriters use SongLink obviously to get [...]
Posted by admin on 02 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: events, gadgets
On 25th February Cancer Research UK’s Sound & Vision event will take place at the iconic Abbey Road Studios, celebrating rock, pop, the people who make it and the images it inspires. A range of memorabilia is up for grabs, including lyrics by Biffy Clyro, Tori Amos and a neat drum skin from Kaiser Chiefs [...]
Posted by admin on 14 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets, news
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As I reported here a while back, LyricWiki was recently served notice that it could no longer supply its lyrics to various applications. Rather than go the way of so many web-based initiatives, it is now being incorporated into Wikia and has negotiated a deal with Gracenote that will do two interesting things: [...]
Posted by admin on 24 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets, meanings, news
As Wordpress users are often told by Wordpress, “code is poetry”. But what happens when coders take a look at songs and determine the logic behind the songs? A geeky in-joke has now become one of Twitter’s funniest trends. Type #songsincode into the Twitter search engine and you’ll be bombarded by song titles and lines [...]
Posted by admin on 06 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets, news
A number of lyric applications are about to lose their source of lyrics. Sean Colombo of LyricWiki has informed them that due to licensing restrictions from some of the major publishers, LyricWiki has to stop providing lyrics through the LyricWiki API. People were using this to run various applications, such as connecting lyrics to Last.fm [...]
Posted by admin on 25 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets
I just came across a little gizmo called Song Generator that is available as an iPhone application. The idea is that songwriters that are stuck for lyrics can turn the application on. When they shake their phone, three random phrases pop up. This is supposed to spark your imagination. As an example, you can play [...]
Posted by admin on 10 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: events, gadgets, news
OK, it’s a bit gimmicky but it could be interesting. US band Of a Revolution has launched a call to co-write a song on Twitter. They are asking people to submit lines that they will choose and collate and chop up into verses and choruses. Said frontman Marc Robege in Billboard magazine: “I do a [...]
Posted by admin on 02 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets, news
Fancy t-shirts with slogans such as “The boys are back in town” or “Born to be wild”? Well, there’s good news and not-so-good news. British retailer Asda has just unveiled a major range of t-shirts under the George label that feature song titles administered by Universal. The idea (commendable) is that the writers benefit from [...]
Posted by admin on 06 May 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets, news
For as long as I’ve been running A-Lyric.com, I’ve been telling people about the huge demand for lyrics. Song lyrics are regularly in the top 10 search terms, and lyric sites are amongst the most visited on the web. Sony is one of the first majors to come to the obvious conclusion that adding song [...]
Posted by admin on 22 Jan 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets, news
One of the most interesting meetings at this year’s Midem music conference in Cannes was a panel devoted to lyrics as a business. As regular readers of A-Lyric.com probably know by now, music lyrics are frequently in the top 10 search terms. The interest in song lyrics is phenomenal, and shows no signs of abating. [...]