Want to see more videos? Check out our brand new youtube channel Suite268 featuring original music and covers from some of our favorite artists.

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On Friday, March 16th, Indaba Music hopes to see you at our SXSW showcase featuring some of the best emerging artists we know. Oh, and by the way, we’re looking for one amazing band to fill out the bill and perform for the SXSW attendees at the Bandpage HQ! See more details on that and meet the amazing musicians playing our showcase below.

Cory Chisel

Ambassadors

Emily Greene

Sydney Wayser

THIS COULD BE YOU! 

Submit your original music to be considered for a spot in a SXSW showcase and receive up to $1,000 toward travel expenses.

Every year thousands of music executives and music fans flock to downtown Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest music festival to see the latest and greatest independent artists showcase their talents. The careers of acts like the White Stripes, M.I.A. and Foster The People have been launched from the Austin festival. Now it’s your chance to get heard!

Here are the requirements:

• Submit at least 3 original songs for consideration (all genres welcome).
• Your band must be actively touring.

Congratulations to Mad Maude & the Hatters from Beaumont, Texas! Lead by vocalists Jenny Carson, Adrienne Ryherd and Ashlynn Ivy, this eclectic, soulful supergroup (inspired by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles and Diana Ross) are opening for the Vivian Girls at SXSW on March 15th.

Don’t forget to check out our awesome showcase on the 16th. Details coming soon…

Congratulations to the talented Indaba Music members that made the cut from the Valentine’s Day Songwriting Contest: Jori King, Jonnie Allen, Valentina Mitzk, Ben Marino, Johnny Rain, and Miss Mercury.

Hello Music is a daily deals platform for musicians. Just like Indaba Music, they work every day on behalf of musicians. They offer huge discounts on limited quantities of instruments, gear, studio time, and other unique and valuable music services. Playing music is expensive and musicians deserve a break.

CLICK BELOW TO JOIN HELLO MUSIC FOR FREE AND RECEIVE MASSIVE DAILY DISCOUNTS ON GEAR, INSTRUMENTS, STUDIO TIME & MORE!

And don’t forget to enter our Hello Music Songwriting Contest! You could win $2000 in recording gear.

The Instructions

1)  Submit a Cover Song to the Valentine’s Day Cover Contest

2) Grab Your Webcam and Video Yourself Playing the Cover for Your Potential Love

3) Fall in Love

4) Repeat #1-#3 Up To 17 More Times As Necessary (you can cover up to 18 songs total)

IMPORTANT: If step #3 fails for any reason, proceed immediately to step #4 and repeat.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 10, 2012

If you own a Verizon Android phone, dial **iD (**43) and play either of the football contests in “iD to Win”. You could win tickets to this year’s or next year’s Super Bowl, but even if you don’t, you can download the three mp3s, compliments of Indaba Music and in8 Mobile. Play ‘em back on your phone for the perfect soundtrack to Super Bowl Sunday.

You can check out the three featured artists here to get yourself amped up for the Pats-Giants action:

• Audio Imagery – Not Ready
• Big Money’s Grip – We Takin’ Over
• Jahn Q. Publaq

Hey everyone, this week I wanted to post a transcription I’m really happy about.  Ever since it came on the scene I’ve been in love with the Sigur Ros song “Gobbledigook.”  It is really pretty and energetic, plus it’s got some really cool time games going on.  The drums are pretty much static throughout, which gives the odd phrasings a lot of impact.  

The first odd phrasing is in the recurring A section melody.  It is a melody of 7 notes which are each given a dotted quarter value against the drum quarter notes.  This forces the melody to occur on both the strong downbeat as well as the upbeat in alternation.  This rhythmic displacement is one of the things that gives the melody its etherial and floating quality.  The next time shift is an augmentation during the C section (when the bass starts pumping out quarter notes).  The phrasing is 2 bars of 4/4, one bar of 6/4, then another 4/4 bar.  The melody is strong and the harmonic augmentation created is powerful and subtle.  I get that feeling of hang time at the end of the vocal melody.

Another interesting quality of this arrangement is how the background vocal manipulates your sense of expectation.  The first time the background vocal appears in the C part it sets up the trick.  After the first time, they change the second bar of the accompaniment.  The same note that would be on the second bar beat one is shifted to beat 3 and there is a 2 beat gap of space.  This is interesting because they set up the expectation to hear that first phrase again and then trick your ear by dropping out and then playing the next expected note 2 beats late.  This is a strong little trick.  They set up the expectation so well, that every time it comes around it is slightly surprising not to hear the accompaniment melody parroted back again the first way.  Awesome!

Anyway, there are lot of great things about this song.  My transcription is as accurate as I could make it.  The guitar part might need a little tweaking, but I thought it sounded good and pretty accurate this way.  I’ve included a MIDI file of the arrangement also so you can give it a listen.

Enjoy!

Download the transcription —> Gobbledigook

If your video is selected for our channel, you’ll earn cash for every video play! Enter our original song contest or cover song contest now for your chance to be a part of the action!

Meet our first four artists below!

Alexandra Stewart - a Canadian, now New York City-based, singer/songwriter who will soon release her debut LP, Waba. The album includes engineers like Mark Lawson (Arcade Fire, Timber Timbre) and Joe Lambert (Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, Lia Ices).
• Original song – “Lone Wolf“
• Cover song – “Dreams“ written by Stevie Nicks, made popular by Fleetwood Mac

Tyler Bernhardt - a singer/songwriter/producer from Fairfield, CT, who mixes elements of indie pop, Americana, and rock to produce a unique genre all his own.
• Original song – “Happiness in History”

Bridget Davis - a Brooklyn, NY-based folk artist and singer/songwriter who writes “warm songs for the coldest cabin.”
• Original song – “Trouble Comes in Threes”
• Cover song – “Don’t Look Back in Anger” written by Noel Gallagher, made popular by Oasis

Katherine Smith - a Princeton, NJ-based singer/songwriter who earned a bachelor’s of music degree from the University of Miami as a studio music and jazz voice major.
• Original song – “Set to the Sea”
• Cover song – “Drive My Car” written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, made popular by The Beatles