Pinback

Pinback is an indie rock band from San Diego, California, currently signed to Touch and Go Records. The band was formed in 1998 by singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow. The band has two drummers that switch off and on, Chris Prescott, and Tom Zinser. Other members of Pinback past and present are: Terrin Durfey, Eric Hoversten, Ryan Bromley, Cameron Jones, Kenseth Thideau, Gabriel Voiles, MC, Dmitri Dziensuwski, Donny Van Zandt, and Thatcher Orbitachi. The band’s moniker is a reference to a character in the film Dark Star (played by Dan O’Bannon, who also co-wrote the film), directed by John Carpenter. Audio samples from this film are used frequently in the band’s early works.

Via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinback

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PHP Frameworks – Intellisense for Aptana

This will be something that will knock your socks off!

Aptana has what is called Intellisense, this is nothing new. Many modern IDE’s have Intellisense for standard HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, and other languages like PHP, and Ruby.

Setting up a Library Location

This will be a place where you can store your various frameworks. I store the frameworks in there own folders separate from the production scripts for Three reasons. One, I can keep versions of my library’s. And Two so they are independent of the production application. And Three I can update all the Frameworks with SVN.

• PHP Librarys

• Cake PHP
• CodeIgniter
• ZendFramework
• Symfony
• Flourish

Configuring Aptana

I am using Aptana Studio, build: 1.5.0.025215 at the time of writing this tutorial but from the previous versions I have used the steps remain the same.

Open Aptana Studio (or Eclipse with your Aptana plug-in)

Open Aptana/Eclipse Preferences
Read on..

Call for Features

After nearly 6000 downloads of my Addressbook script, and a tone of feedback it’s time to work on version 3. There are a number of improvements and features made. Now is your chance to suggest a feature you would like to see, or voice your opinion about something that has been bugging you.

I’m not going to post a technical list of new features and changes until I reach Beta. This brings me to my next topic. If you are interested in testing the script before release please contact me for more information.

Speak your mind!

Everything will be taken into account, but I can’t make any guarantees that your suggestion will make it to production.

So Much Music

Recently I have been posting new music that I find. It has been an interesting venture. Though I don’t have time to write much about each band i hope the blurbs quoited from other sites, the videos, music and photos have been enough to spark some interest. I plan to continue posting what I find, if you know of and not so mainstream bands please let me know!

The Rural Alberta Advantage

The Rural Alberta Advantage is a Canadian indie rock band that formed in 2005. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the band consists of Paul Banwatt, Amy Cole and Nils Edenloff.

First formed in 2005, the band released a demo tape and an EP independently before completing their first full-length album, Hometowns, in early 2008. Hometowns was recorded and produced from April 2007 to March 2008 by Roger Leavens at BoomBox Sound in Toronto, Ontario. The band toured extensively across Canada, including shows at the Pop Montreal and Halifax Pop Explosion festivals, to support Hometowns.

The band was selected as eMusic’s featured artist of the month for November 2008. The band subsequently signed to Saddle Creek Records in 2009, and the label will be rereleasing Hometowns in July.

Via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rural_Alberta_Advantage

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http://www.theraa.com/
http://www.myspace.com/theraa
http://www.chartattack.com/news/69142/rural-alberta-advantage-sign-to-saddle-creek
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ipickmynose/3377217369/

Chairlift

Chairlift formed in Boulder, Colorado in early 2006 to make live music for haunted houses. Frequenting the Broker Inn on the edge of town for empty late-night jazz shows, Caroline Polachek, Aaron Pfenning and Patrick Wimberly were mystified by the 1980’s faux-gothic architecture, oak-cabinet aquariums, vacant dancefloors, fake trees, crystal chandeliers and dark velveteen booths. The inn provided them with the ideal setting for a new breed of pop: a place where subtle clashes blossomed into uncanny pleasures.

Via: http://www.last.fm/music/Chairlift

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The Maple State

The Maple State formed in 2004 in Manchester, England after meeting at school/college, the band originally drew most of its inspiration from emo-rock bands such as The Get up Kids, The Anniversary and Hot Rod Circuit. Comprised of brothers Gregory and Christian Counsell, William Pearson and John Goodwin, the band recorded their earliest songs in a friend’s bedroom and began touring the UK, these songs eventually became their first EP entitled At least until we’ve settled in which was released by Punktastic Recordings in March 2005, the EP received rave reviews from Magazines and Fanzines across the UK and helped the band land tours with Motion City Soundtrack, Fightstar and Minus The Bear.

Via: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Maple+State

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Black Kids

Black Kids, consisting of Reggie Youngblood (vocals and guitar), Owen Holmes (bass guitar), Kevin Snow (drums), Dawn Watley (keyboards and vocals), and Reggie’s sister Ali Youngblood (keyboards and vocals), formed in early 2006. Although they initially performed only in Jacksonville, they received national attention after a breakout performance at the Athens Popfest in Athens, Georgia on August 11, 2007, which led to a sudden flurry of coverage in the music press, including NME, Vice, The Guardian, and The Village Voice. The same month, Black Kids’ demo EP, Wizard of Ahhhs, was released via free download on their MySpace page. Soon after, Black Kids began working with Quest Management, the company that manages Björk and Arcade Fire. In October, the EP received a favorable review of 8.4 out of 10 from Pitchfork Media, including a “Best New Music” commendation.

Via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Kids

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I Was A Cub Scout

I Was a Cub Scout was originally a seventy-one-man band, consisting solely of Todd Marriot and many other people he just happened to know. Lacking a refrigerator, Marriott used a washing machine to slowly rot his donut shaped ice cubes and yams. William Bowerman joined the band in mid 2006.

Via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Was_a_Cub_Scout

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