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It's thursday! So, it must be Blackwater's Music Shack night! Doors open 8:00 pm EST (1:00 am BST). If you want to rock out, then join me tonight  at the music shack and I will play some of the best indie artists on  the planet. New tracks, old tracks and chat tracks.  Mixstream radio is the place to be!

It's thursday! So, it must be Blackwater's Music Shack night! Doors open 8:00 pm EST (1:00 am BST). If you want to rock out, then join me tonight  at the music shack and I will play some of the best indie artists on  the planet. New tracks, old tracks and chat tracks.  Mixstream radio is the place to be!

Recently we have been having some issues with our subscriptions where we were continually cancelling subscriptions that should not have been cancelled. We would fix it and there is a nightly code run that validates the subscriptions are active or not and it would update the subscription again to cancelled. This was obviously causing some frustrations to our users who could not upload music when they wanted to.

Yesterday an overhaul was done on our subscription service that was long overdue. This should fix the issue that some users were seeing but it seems that members who have been subscribers for a long time were inadvertently impacted. From what I can see, it looks like the subscription start date was the issue. Some of those dates went back 10-12 years which apparently was seen as the subscription end date. Good times. 

I am still looking at the subscriptions and will be doing an additional final check but I think everyone should be ok now. If you have a subscription and that is not appearing on your page, please let me know and we will fix it asap. 

My apologies to everyone this has impacted but in all honesty, this update needed to happen. 

Thanks!

Todd

It's thursday! So, it must be Blackwater's Music Shack night! Doors open 8:00 pm EST (1:00 am BST). If you want to rock out, then join me tonight  at the music shack and I will play some of the best indie artists on  the planet. New tracks, old tracks and chat tracks.  Mixstream radio is the place to be!

Reminder for next week: we still have a few tickets left so let us know if you're still interested and haven't got yours yet!

It's thursday! So, it must be Blackwater's Music Shack night! Doors open 8:00 pm EST (1:00 am BST). If you want to rock out, then join me tonight at the music shack and I will play some of the best indie artists on the planet. New tracks, old tracks and chat tracks. Mixstream radio is the place to be!

Bubba was up for a show today, but whether tech probs or lack of support - he has left - doing a stand in show

So after 15+ years as a Reaper user, I got a marketing email and decided to try Harrison Mixbus 32C v8. It definitely adds it's own mojo to the mixes. The new Que editor is a game changer. One of the things that gave me fits in Reaper was gradual time alignment slips with WAV objects across the duration of a project. It was probably due to my user habits, but nevertheless it was a pain, time consuming and even a morale killer sometimes.

With Mixbus none of that frustration. Creating a new song from scratch is much faster and  more intuitive. Of course I still had to spend some time up front learning the nuances and differences, but one done yes I love the Mixbus workflow.

So.....Anybody else out there try Mixbus 8?

It's thursday! So, it must be Blackwater's Music Shack night! Doors open 8:00 pm EST (1:00 am BST). If you want to rock out, then join me tonight  at the music shack and I will play some of the best indie artists on  the planet. New tracks, old tracks and chat tracks.  Mixstream radio is the place to be!

I'm David Wright, founding member of Riff Reign. I began playing guitar and bass guitar in 1962 aged 14. My Uncle Ken wanted someone to play bass with his son Jim, and he bought me a Rosetti Lucky 7 bass. I played semi-pro in bands from 1964 until 1981 when my local government career took precedence. At my first gig, aged 16, we took our equipment on the bus! At our second gig girls pulled our hair out! Never happened again though. I resumed playing in 2012 aged 64. In my younger days I'd done some song writing and a couple of my songs were played on the John Peel Show on BBC Radio One, so I thought I'd try my hand again.

I've written around 130 songs in the last eight years. I formed Riff Reign in 2014 to develop and record my songs at Swanyard Music, Retford, England. I've been very fortunate to have brilliant musicians working with me. Musical styles include Americana, blues, country, dance, funk, jazz, pop, rock, hard rock and retro rock ‘n’ roll, plus the band’s own indie rock style. Much of the music has a USA influence - in 1963 my eventual wife, Gwen, joined the Beatles Fan Club and got herself a Yonkers New York pen friend, Danielle. Their friendship, which continues to this day, has led to extensive travels through the USA and Canada. Examples of songs with a USA influence on here are Country Store, Down To The Town, I'm Goin' Home To Tennessee, John Wells, Outlaw and Touchdown London.

I've also played in two rock bands during the last five years. One of them, East Side Rhythm Aces, recorded a song of mine called Rio Grande. I got the idea for the song from witnessing a Seattle bar-room brawl in 1982. The other band was Plain Shame. 

Riff Reign has self-released nine full albums, two Christmas singles, a blues rock EP and a retro rock EP. All are available as CD or digital download at  riffreign.bandcamp.com . All tracks are on Spotify and the other main platforms.  We've been featured many times on BBC Introducing East Midlands and once on BBC Introducing Sheffield.  I have a five-year licensing contract for one song with Heavy Hitters Music Group of Los Angeles.

I'm currently working on a new album which will be released as Dave Wright & Friends.