SoundCloud seems to be the big thing getting all the hype right now, so we've jumped on the bandwagon.

First impressions are good - it's a nice bit of web design, good looking and easy to use. It remains to be seen whether it's actually of any use.

And here's a special treat (since the Last.fm page for SOTNMS is still bugged - grrr) - a whole track from the new album, via the SoundCloud embeddable music player. Enjoy!



os, Oct 2008

Tags: SOTNMS, SoundCloud, last.fm

Just in case anyone wants to up their cyber-stalking of Darkroom band members, my Last.fm profile is here:

http://www.last.fm/user/expertsleepers/

Caveat: I share my iTunes library with my wife, so the charts and playlists you see will be skewed slightly. I, for example, am not a great Tori Amos fan, contrary to what Last.fm would have you believe.

os, July 2008

Tags: last.fm

We recently uploaded all the Darkroom material, well, pretty much ever, to Last.fm. You can find it here:

http://www.last.fm/music/Darkroom

For those not familiar with Last.fm:

"Last.fm connects you with your favorite music, and uses your unique taste to find new music, people, and concerts you'll like."

It's a web 2.0 social networking kind of thing, and relies to some extent on people tagging the music they listen to, but also just tracks what music you play and works out what else you might like.

Unfortunately it's utterly brain-dead when it comes to handling multiple bands with the same name. Basically, it can't. Of course, there's more than one Darkroom in the world and so we share the page. Which is why you'll find 'Darkroom' prominently tagged as 'indie' on the site. We may be many things, but I'd suggest that 'indie' is not one of them. So, Darkroom fans - or should I say, fans of The One and True Darkroom (us) - get tagging.

os, April 2008

PS I just noticed Darkroom (presumably the other Darkroom) has been tagged as 'nice'. I ask you, who tags music as 'nice'? (If it's you, dear reader, let us know)

Tags: last.fm

I've enabled comments in the blog, so if anyone's actually reading this and feels like leaving a comment on these posts they can do so. Fortunately RapidWeaver makes this very simple, taking advantage of the free service offered by Haloscan.

os, Jan 2008

Tags: blog, rapidweaver, haloscan

Darkroom are now installed in their new home at darkroomtheband.net. Apart from being a slightly more obvious URL, this new location also gives us a lot more space. Expect to see some archive material being uploaded as mp3s soon!

os, Jan 2008

Welcome to the shiny new Darkroom website. The old one was looking decidedly, well, 20th Century, so here's a new one, built with RapidWeaver.

As well as just looking nicer, there are some useful new features. E.g. the reviews page has been implemented as a blog, so it's easier to add new ones (there will be new ones one day, I'm sure), and you can filter them by tag e.g. here are all the reviews of Freefall.

There's actually a bit more than usual going on in Darkroom-land these days, so stay tuned for more news over the next while. Why not make use of the RSS feed to keep in touch?

os, Jan 2008

Tags: rapidweaver