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..

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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The long Insiders

There is always a dangerous edge to the conflict, tension, lust and passion that Sarah Dodds and Nick Kenny weave together on stage. The taut love-hate friction between the singer & lead guitarist is what is at the heart of both the songwriting, and indeed the Long Insider’s live performances. She switches from a honey-voiced seductive temptress to a sneering antagonist in a heart-beat, whilst he wails out emphatic, sometimes unrequited, Americana riffs. The result is a unique, incomparable maelstrom of intensity, pointed humour and memorable music – all of which wouldn’t be out of place in a Rodrigues or Tarantino movie-set!

Via: LMFM – http://livemusic.fm/artist/thelonginsiders

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Kuroma

Kuroma is the brainchild of Hank Sullivant, a man you may have come to know as former bassist for the Whigs and recent touring guitarist for MGMT. Having spent much of his musical career as a piece of these two indie music giants, Kuroma’s debut release Paris is the first true fruit of Sullivant’s labor. Although it’s undeniable that he brings some of MGMT’s poppy psychedelic vibe to his latest project, Sullivant gives Kuroma a style of its own by infusing other musical influences into his work. One listen through Paris you’ll get a taste of some pop, folk, and good ol’ rock’n’roll.

Via: http://www.mtvu.com/music/music-blog/kuromas-paris-is-a-fun-homage-to-the-classics/

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