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Everyone - Please check out the below from Doug Dickens!
For the past two years, I have been doing a showcase of independent artists over on my Facebook Timeline ( https://www.facebook.com/douglas.dickens2 ) and Artist Page ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/Doug-Dickens/129082457174626 ). Each week I bring forward new artists that I have found on Reverbnation ( http://www.reverbnation.com/dougdickens?profile_view_source=header_icon_nav ) and post their music with a short introduction. This is not a review by any standard because I only want to share the wealth of the multitude of amazing talent that, for the most part goes unnoticed in our world of commercial junk that is forcefed to us by the corporate moguls in the entertainment business. No hard feelings here, but our world has changed with the vast power of the internet and I believe it is our time to shine. What is out there on the radio really does not compare to what we have to offer in the creative realm. I continue to do these showcases because of the networking possibilities for the artists as well as attracting new fans for their efforts. There is an event page on Facebook as well ( https://www.facebook.com/events/339479352809389/ ).
I am hoping to take this one step further here on Mixposure radio. Why here you say? Well, I really appreciate the site and the wonderful music that is already presented here as well as the fact that it is totally independent artists without the intrusion of established, mainstream talent. Not only that, but I really feel the love for music of all the artists here and as a new member here have found that there is no 'attitude' but nothing but support for us. It is also nice to have a place where we can set up our own pages. The combination of a viable radio station connected to a website for the artists and the all inclusiveness and cooperation is tantamount to the success of this venture.
I want to thank all those here who have made me feel at home and look forward to creating a radio version of the Showcase of Independent Artists right here on Mixposure. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for making me feel at home.
Doug Dickens
Just wanted to do a quick update of what is going on behind the scenes at Mixposure!
In a week or so we will be putting out a new release with a bunch of changes. One of the changes I am contemplating is a new forum. Now we have the VBulletin Forum but I am tired of several things about it. The separate signups/logins being the biggest issue now. The new forum will be pretty basic and will not have categories. So in other words, there is no dedicated Intro Forum or Watercooler. This is actually kind of cool because only the most recent topics will be at the top of the forum. We will see about moving all of the posts over from the old forum but at least this way, we only have the one login and no separate signup.
I know many of you are looking for a Facebook audio embed module. This will be coming as well and hopefully in this release also. I will keep everyone posted on that one also.
More details will be coming but these are the heavy hitters. We are also looking in to a possible bug on the charts where some songs are not showing correctly.
If there are any other issues you are seeing, please let me know!
Thanks,
Todd
Congratulations to Gary for having the Mixposure.com Song of the Week. Actually it was a toss up between two of Gary's songs, Cool Rockin Daddy and Small Steps so have a listen to both and tell us which one you think should be the song of the week!
Gary is a superb guitarist as you will be able to tell by listening to the two songs!
Bio:
I start to play gtr in a age of ten...(i'm 46 now)My friend play me some vinyl records...those same bands are still my favorites, old school stuff...Led Zeppelin, Rush, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Deep Purple...etc.First school bands were couple of years later...later i move into big city and got a job from local funk rock band Generators .They got already record deal and gigs around the country in good venues...things go pretty well in radio and my father and mother take my playing, hobby more serious when they see me playing in TV. Few years later i left band and focused more into spiritual things in life.I start to make music in my home, using tape recorders...drum machine and bass.It was great time., I learn to play all instruments in that period and i check all kind of music. About ten years later i start to do things professionally...playin several cover bands, i start to teach kids to play and buy more recording gear.Today my work includes mixing gig's, recording and teaching., In ten years i have done lot's of songs and cover gigs...2007 came this internet music thing.It has give me whole new dimension of making music., Finally i start to use PC in recording.Learning curve was pretty hard.Rayon Vert has been big part of my music life lately.Still, i make own things too with Doctor C and other friends...basically i am still blues based rock player who wants to try found new dimensions of makin music.
Saturated and I were talking last night and he sent me over to the below video on YouTube. I have to say I was quite impressed by her not to mention all of the songs she has been on. Checkk this one out and let us know what you think!
Congratulations to Don Nivens for having the Mixposure.com Song of the Week. Check out the tune Long Dark Road !
Thanks for sharing great music with us Don!
I thought we would try this everyone. It has been suggested that we need a better way to do collaborations. What I decided to do was to just create a new tab here called Collab Wanted. In order for this to work, here is what you need to do.
1. Create a new blog with what you are looking for in a collab
2. For the Blog Category, YOU MUST USE "CollabWanted" (this is case sensitive)
Anyone can use this area so please respect it!
Is this ok?
I know there are a handful of users out there using Windows 8 which apparently has issues with Mix. Fender Bender set the browser in IE10 to compatibility mode and everything was working correctly. So if you have Windowws 8 and are seeing some issues with the site, please change your browser to compatibility mode (click the little paper looking icon in the address bar) for now. We should have a fix in a day or two.
Thanks,
Todd
Just a heads up that if you are looking for the comments box that was on the side of the main page, I moved it to the message are here. Just click the Site Comments button!
I am looking in to Private Notes also. If you are seeing an Invalid Message, make sure you select the user name when you type it in. This is a "Live Search" field so as you enter the name in the search, it will autopopulate. Just click on the name of the person you want to send it to. If you prefer to type it in, right now the field is case sensitive so if you message "admin" you will see an error but if you type "Admin" it will work fine.
Some people have asked why they are unable to message everyone on the site. This is simply a security feature. If you belong to Twitter, we follow the same rules. You can only message people you follow or people following you. This prevents morons like Kenny from Nigeria wanting to promote your music as he spams several thousand users on Mixposure.
Todd
