Wow, this article came out about 7 years ago when I first started Groove Labs and Corporate Rock Stars. At that time there were only two other companies offering music as a team building option. Yes, groove labs was the first to offer a full scale rock band metaphor, before the words rock band became synonymous with a video game. Now if you search music team building you’ll find a list of new service providers going after this market. Good thing I listened to all those people who said this was just a fad. Ignoring people, especially the naysayers, comes naturally to me. Probably one of my best assets is the ability to tune the lemmings out and get on with making the world a better place.
Seeing the story of the grateful dead’s bequeathing its’ archives to the University of Santa Cruz made the smile muscles move. Go Banana Slugs! The Grateful Dead led the great American journey/myth/enterprise down the golden road of unlimited devotion, or something like that. As business entrepreneurs the dead proved masterminds with superior customer service and value added services such as direct mail order for tickets, 800 toll-free number for tour schedules, and free reign to tape, record and distribute their shows paving the way for what some would say was an ultimate “lifestyle enclave” and social network for the free of mind and time. This lifestyle enclave stimulates sociologists, philosophers, ethnomusicologists and entrepreurs to examine the culture and learn from the best traits of this well oiled machine. Thanks to the Atlantic for publishing the piece. Management secrets of the Grateful Dead
Watch the super bowl ads from Hulu’s adzone. Fast becoming a leading video share site, Hulu proves the point that content still rules. Love this joint venture between fox and nbc and now the Hulus offer us this dandy lil dollup of content. BTW, what a great game going on between the Baltimore Colts and New Orleans Saints.
About two years ago, I randomly posted a record of a band I used to play with on this site called Jamendo. They allow you to upload your music under a CC (creative commons) license. Kind of a new thing on the intertwebs. Looked cool to me and now with over 150,000 listens, 10 license deals and people that love our music in Europe, I’m glad I threw this record out there to the universe. Jamendo is not for everyone, but if you’re not actively shopping your music or a member of ASCAP or BMI or any other performing rights organization, then this site is for you. Remember performing rights organizations offer valuable benefits for artists of all types so DO NOT discount that. I choose Jamendo for our band because of the nature of the project.
What’s up world? We’re glad you found us in the digital domain. Our store represents an eclectic collection of art, music gear and other items of note. We spend a good amount of time canvassing the landscape for the new and cool that will help make your world rule. Of course, we don’t know everything so we’d love to hear from you if you have a comment or idea about a new item that you’d like to see in the store.
For starters our goal is to have about 100 new items by the end of 2010. We’ve started with music production gear from a revolutionary company called Open Labs. The folks at Open Labs are game changin’ the music production landscape and we are happy to partner with them to sell their products including the DBeat, LXD and XXL. Secondly we’ve launched with original art pieces from Memphis based artist Zoe Nadel.
Peek around the store, join our mailing list and get involved with Groove Labs. We make music and art for your dining pleasure…
No doubt the web provides a wealth of information on every topic under the sun. Every now and then a site comes along that aggregates the endless tsunami of bits and bytes and chokes the flow down to a meaningful pressure. Check out our friends over at Loaded Web and get your blog on using their filter. We signed up for it and think you should too. Enjoy!
At Groove Labs we want to give a shout out to the people at netbloc.com for being innovators and pioneers in curating great music and art. Michael’s site curates collections of music and album art from independent artists from across the globe. In addition to offering a collection of great new music and art he offers insights into the bands and links for more information. His latest release net bloc volume 26 (N.E.T.A.U.D.I.O) features 11 tracks of music. Michael contacted us about including the major Major song “Chinese Drop” and we happily obliged. Sometimes in life the best things are free, but most people just don’t know about them. If you get the chance, click on the link and download this netbloc. It’s cool, free and represents the future when it comes to discovering new independent music. If you like what you hear, then support the artists by buyig a CD, t-shirt or making a donation. While free is cool and all, it still won’t pay for the butter. Make it so. Enjoy!
took some images from a panning camera filming a sea of people rocking to a 2007 Wembley arena show featuring muse. the photos include a couple of slivers of action and then crops and image adjustments added to them for effect. the piece titled “Vertical Fan” will be a pen and ink. Hope to take the image to stencil and stain on silk.
For the 6th night of Chanukah and the 5th night of Christmas we launched a new website. The main goal of the site is to provide a quick and simple way for clients to learn about our corporate team building programs and entertainment attractions. We will continue to load the site full of photos, audio and video that will provide glimpses into the world in which we work. Because of the sensitive nature of private events, we never use any content for which we do not have permission. Also, the site features a new store that will carry music, art and other items created by the artists and artisans with whom we work.
Take a spin around the site and please let us know what you think. Enjoy.
Just a quick shout out to the boys in major Major for the licensing of “Satellite” to the French newspaper, Liberation. The licensing deal developed through our partnership with the free music, creative commons site, Jamendo.com . Liberation France uses the song in a video to promote their new I-phone app for the newspaper. Peep the app and video here: http://www.liberation.fr/liberation-sur-iphone.html
Also, here’s a link to a review in the Austinist for the record when it first came out. As soon as the band released the record, they disbanded because of career opportunities in far away lands. http://austinist.com/2007/11/26/le_diamant_brut_13.php
