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lots going on the past few months!

new sites launched!

* beastie boys w/ PROD (hello nasty, ill communication, etc)

* new site for the waybacks (great player from PROD, fine html building work by mark thornton) and design by chris shaw

plus a tons of video work:

* tons of new product videos for Korg/Vox (Night Train, AC4TV, VT, MicroKorgXL, MicroSampler, Big Bad Wah, Nano series, PA588, SV-1),

* some real fun gag videos for Joe Satriani's vox line of pedals

* and a ton of CHICKENFOOT video work (full length music videos for Oh Yeah and Soap On A Rope, a 12-episode podcast series "12 Days of the Foot", a number of backstage/promo videos from the road, and the real kicker, a 1-hour DVD for Nov 1 release! Kudos to director-in-crime Arthur Rosato on all chickenfoot videos, plus some fine video work from Chris Sentovich and Jojo Pennebaker and DVD authoring from Rich Winter.

http://hellonasty.beastieboys.com/
http://illcommunication.beastieboys.com/
http://www.waybacks.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/KorgUSAVideos&view=videos
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=VOXampsforever&view=videos
http://www.chickenfoot.us/ and http://www.facebook.com/video/?id=44512487307

on friday night i'll be working with moonalice to have them twitter their CD release show. as far as we know, this is the first time it's been done and should be fun! press release here http://www.fanmanager.net/news/154

as part of the overall digital strategy we're doing for chickenfoot, check out the first videos and hip embeddable widget. this, and more, at chickenfoot.us.

it's a great thing to see bob himself embrace the immediacy of the 'net to share this conversation/qa directly w/ fans amidst a plethora of traditional media. to be able to be part of that process is just great, esp when the starting point a year ago was just hoping he'd see the web site in the first place.

this conversation about the new album will be released in chapters over the coming days/weeks.

http://www.bobdylan.com/conversation

it's been a while coming but the phase 1 launch of the new www.davematthewsband.com site has arrived! another PROD/Chime drupal / flash hybrid site, this one has a whole lot of music under its hood so make sure you click on that note icon and take a listen. phase 1 is basic functionality and we have some exciting community components planned for phase 2. can't tell you much more than that for now!

I'm looking to bring in a motivated and high functioning programmer to work on some Drupal (PHP-based CMS) projects for high-profile artists. We'll be continuing to do cutting edge work and will have a blast doing it. General web technologies (Mysql, CSS, Javascript, DHTML, etc) are all plusses, of course.

Also, drop a note to falcon (at) chime.com if you'll be at DrupalCon DC (Mar 4-7) and we can meet up!

hardly strictly bluegrass 8 (http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass/) took place in oct of last year and is the 8th installment of this amazing FREE festival in golden gate park that is paid for by warren hellman as a gift to the city (and, as he likes to say, his own selfish desire to see great music) and produced by the amazing folks at slims/gamh and sheri/ryan @ mercenary productions.

so a week ago i spent the day with the guys in chickenfoot and they were very accomodating in my request to have them say "chickenfoot" a hundreds times each as part of the first phase announcement of the band to the world. these guys each have a huge history bringing the rAWK but they are also really fun folks to be around and we had a blast. so, what's the point?

i don't know about you, but on sites where i set custom pathaliases for page nodes it becomes a problem when the site is handed off to someone else to admin and then forget to uncheck that box so the custom pathalias gets lost and links to that page then go 404. since i want to have root-level pathaliases, it's not easy to control via the standard pathauto settings.

we're stoked to announce the launch of the new mini site for the beastie boys' 20th anniversary re-mastered release of paul's boutique! a sick flash front end (kudos as always to PROD) to a drupal core. lots of stuff hidden on a page. go upload your paul's boutique era photo and story to the site and pick up your embeddable trading card today!

http://paulsboutique.beastieboys.com/