Panic at the Disco is currently on The Honda Civic Tour with Motion City Soundtrack, The Hush Sound, and Phantom Planet. To show their appreciation for all your support, they are giving you a chance to win enough gear to start your own band!

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I’ve noticed everyone is making their own music these days. Well for those who aren’t so music program savvy like me, check out Musicshake (http://www.musicshake.com)

Musicshake

It’s “The easiest way to make music in the world”

Just combine different blocks of instruments and vocal samples on a timeline from Musicshake’s large library of samples. I must say, its simple and its pretty dayam addicting.

Check out a sample piece by Jeffarama

Musicshake recently teamed up with Nexon to hold a contest, and winner their song game featured in online dancing game, Audition! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

That is the name of the band, yeah. My friend pointed them out to me, and fast off the heels of Mitsubishi commercials, I gotta say, I love it. Take a peak:

I’m really into their sound and live act, they’re coming to Cali in July - FR*A road trip?

awesome, awesome:

Go to their home website (which btw is interesting) for some free downloads:

http://doesitoffendyou.com/

<<Old PSA telling you not to make mixtapes. Bonus points if you can tell me where this logo can now be found!

I’m loving this website www.muxtape.com not only because Muxtape is touting itself as a digital equivilent of analog mixtapes or because of that uploading a song and creating your muxtape takes a matter of seconds but because of the mixtapes people come up with! (I created http://richandcreamy.muxtape.com/d in under 30 seconds including load time for that one song!)

I think it’s fun to type into google a random search term + muxtape and finding what people have thrown together. You get thousands of results and get to stumble upon links you may have never fallen on top of normally.

There’s one blog that made me feel compelled to share Muxtapes with FR*A and that’s http://www.butterteam.com for giving us

THE ULTIMATE COUGAR MUXTAPE

“A cougar unexpectedly crosses your path at the bar/grocery store. You think quickly on your feet, make a signature move, and she takes the bait. Even if things start to go downhill back at your place (you haven’t exactly tidied up and there’s only one bullet in the fridge) that’s nothing a little Keith Sweat + Patrick Swayze + Rick Astley can’t fix.”

http://www.butterteam.muxtape.com/

Based on my own cougar experiences I’d rate this as a certified panty dropper.

BONUS!

Here’s a youtube video of a strange Sony Walkman commercial:

Nine Inch Nails is continuing on the model of free distribution by releasing another album for 100% free on their website.

I think it’s much more original and reminiscent of their old work than Ghosts I-IV (which I thought sucked). I’m glad to see that Trent Reznor is sticking with this free-form-esque method of music distribution.

The awesome thing that NIN promotes is the remixing of their songs. Therefore, releasing “The Slip” in multiple formats including FLAC and HD 24-bit/96kHz WAVE. Reznor posted a message along with the download link saying,”thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me.”

Nine Inch Nails - Discipline

For the old-schooler analogue audiophiles, physical CDs and Vinyls will be out in July.

Estelle is definitely a diva. Diva with class and knowledge. Her music is smart, savy and sexy.

Check out American Boy feat Kanye and make sure you download her free single “Shine”!!

Estelle Feat Kanye West - American Boy

From Tuesday, 12.15pm UK time for one week only you can come here to download a free copy of a new song called Violet Hill.