The Next FortWayneMusic.com Release...

By: Alan Quandt - Posted: 2009-04-14

Okay, a lot has unfolded since I first posted an entry about the next FortWayneMusic.com release.  I have managed to produce as much work in a week or so that would have taken me 3 months last year.  So, because of that, this release may end up being a spring or summer event.

I have the layout of the new site about 90% complete.  We have finally taken the leap into the newest version of the bulletin board software we use, PhpBB 3.  I have already finished styling the new boards to match the new layout.  PhpBB really stepped it up a notch with this release (now several years old).  Like mentioned above; I was able to accomplish a ton of work in a fraction of the time, since this release of PhpBB used much more current technology.

Without further ramble, I will list the new additions to FortWayneMusic.com.  These are NEW and revised components......

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Applications You Don't Have to Install to Use

By: deek - Posted: 2009-04-09
You may have heard the term, Web 2.0, over the past few years.  As with most things technical, buzzwords emerge and get used profusely, but by the time they actually get to the mainstream, a lot of what they meant is lost.  For an in-depth definition, read this article.  The basic idea of Web 2.0 is using the internet as an application platform.  Instead of software packages the end-user installs, the software and data resides on the internet and has a simple, lightweight interface.  Nothing to install, just open your web browser and you have all that you need.
 
So, this month, I'll take a look at some of the best Web 2.0 applications that I have found.  Most of them I have used on a regular, daily basis.  The others, I have tested and really like, but just haven't made the jump to move from what I am currently using.
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Athens :: What Would We... - EP

By: Alan Quandt - Posted: 2009-01-09

Athens CD Available on CdBabyWell the day that I received this press kit and album I was busy as hell and apparently I was only interested in the lyric-less depressing post rock that I had already been listening to all day.  I put the album uniquely titled; "What Would We Wear Were We Werewolves" ( WWWW... as I will call it) in my CD-Rom, listened to 40 seconds or so of the first track, then took it out of my computer in a fit of extreme irritation...

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Artificial Red - Demo EP

By: Alan Quandt - Posted: 2008-12-12

In Fort Wayne I have heard (and played in) my share of rock bands over the last 12 years.  It’s very rare that I hear an act that has an original approach or does not sound like a direct Godsmack or Creed rip off (even though they were probably going for the unobtainable TOOL sound originally!).   Artificial Red’s new EP was difficult to classify so easily...

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Homeless J - The Squeeze

By: Alan Quandt - Posted: 2008-12-12

If Bono and Perry Farrell were able to lend the good qualities of their vocal styling to one individual it would be one Chad Van Meter.  The first thing I noticed after the intro track (which I thought was the only thing out of place in the entire album) was the quality of voice over top the music.   As a fellow musician I know how hard it is to find a truly talented vocalist.  Brad Amstutz (Lead Guitar), Jon Hill (Bass Guitar), Matt Minnick (Guitar), and Dan Willig (Drums) beat odds and found the needle in the...

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