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Life After Us is a super friendly pop/rock band from Pittsburgh. I produced The Rest is Silence EP. It contains 3 songs which showcase their capabilities and versatility as a band.
For the EP, I coached them during the songwriting process and even helped with the recording session at Treelady Studio.
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University analyzed an an online songwriting community called February Album Writing Month (FAWM) and gathered data for four years. The results revealed some interesting patterns in collaborative songwriting.
That’s right; two people were actually less likely to collaborate if they liked the same songs. A songwriter in one genre is more likely to seek a collaboration with someone who works in a less familiar genre.
Well, duh!
Users of equal popularity tend not to collaborate with each other as much as those who have a slightly different social status.
Imagine that? Pretty cool!
If one collaborator writes or performs the bulk of the work, both feel unsatisfied. So, the creative responsibility is usually shared.
Hey, I like to perform the bulk of the work!
The FAWM collaboration data set included song tags, locations, forums, 39,103 songs, and 6,116 participants. FAWM users were also surveyed.
Learn more about the research »
Posted 6 months ago • 2 notes • View comments
Satin Gum is one of the best pop rock bands from Pittsburgh. What makes their music awesome is the mix of shoegaze and math rock in their tunes.
The lyrics are cute, poppy, and intelligent (kinda like Weezer), the music often contains odd meters with peculiar chord progressions and transitions (think math rock), and the guitars are dense with lots of wide open chords and whammy bar strumming (think Superdrag).
To date, they have 2 albums and 3 EPs. Their newest album was released in September of 2012.
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