Your music! (any and all types are welcome)

This is probably the last thing I am going to put up of my own for a long while. I plan to work on these 3 songs along with 2 more when I get home in a more band like setting and then release all 5 of the tracks together. This is just a chorus of the 4th of the 5 songs. The song is called, "Fourth of July" Everything I have put up so far of my own is just in "Testing" and trying to figure out what I want to do. I really want the 5 songs to have a different sound and feel to them.

https://soundcloud.com/heartbreakdancer/fourth-of-july-chorus-sample

33RPMHero wrote:

Hey John, I see that you have a quite a few people listening to your stuff on soundcloud. Do you have any tips of getting more listens and your stuff around so people take a listen to it?

Well basically I've always been pretty active in different online communities. Dimestore Saints, Bad Religion fan forum, Imgur, 4chan, Reddit and a whole slew of other websites. If you get attention there you should be able to get people to listen to your stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IVyKg1J0e8
Here is my band and I performing an acoustic version of a song. It is blurry. I am in the middle. Isla Vista music

The Angry Johnny Revue wrote:

These are my first non crappy iphone recordings. Would really appreciate it if anyone gave the time to listen. https://soundcloud.com/napier-avalon-jones

no fuckin way you're 15 haha you sound like nick cave

Haha, I have no idea what genre that EP I am working on right now is headed toward. Some of it sounds like Rock, Punk Rock, Country. The one song I haven't released anything of(Oh, Love) sounds more like Folk Rock. I guess a variety of sounds is a good thing. Haha. This one is called "Brunette Sunshine" and I am getting a country sound from it. This is probably half of the song. I was planning on it to be quite short and the closing track of the 5 songs. Mistakes are made throughout it but its just a sample.

https://soundcloud.com/heartbreakdancer/brunette-sunshine-original

DeathoftheCool wrote:

The Angry Johnny Revue wrote:

These are my first non crappy iphone recordings. Would really appreciate it if anyone gave the time to listen. https://soundcloud.com/napier-avalon-jones

no fuckin way you're 15 haha you sound like nick cave

Haha I agree with you. Great stuff! His voice really took me by a surprise.

Harbortown wrote:

33RPMHero wrote:

Hey John, I see that you have a quite a few people listening to your stuff on soundcloud. Do you have any tips of getting more listens and your stuff around so people take a listen to it?

Well basically I've always been pretty active in different online communities. Dimestore Saints, Bad Religion fan forum, Imgur, 4chan, Reddit and a whole slew of other websites. If you get attention there you should be able to get people to listen to your stuff.

Thanks bro! Never thought of Reddit before. I'll have to check out some of the others.

A work in progress of the last song I am going to include on the EP I am working on.

https://soundcloud.com/heartbreakdancer/brunette-sunshine-original-1

So i just did this cover of an Angus Stone Song with which i'm quite happy how it turned out

https://soundcloud.com/black2white/monsters-angusstone-c-o-v-e-r

Hanswurst wrote:

So i just did this cover of an Angus Stone Song with which i'm quite happy how it turned out

https://soundcloud.com/black2white/monsters-angusstone-c-o-v-e-r

Great stuff bro. Like the vocals a lot. Keep bringing them on.

This song is called, "Fourth of July". Does anyone know the cheapest mic i can buy that is made for music? My computer one blew out so all I have in my iphone. That thing can't record music worth shit.

https://soundcloud.com/heartbreakdancer/fourth-of-july-original

33RPMHero wrote:

This song is called, "Fourth of July".  Does anyone know the cheapest mic i can buy that is made for music? My computer one blew out so all I have in my iphone.  That thing can't record music worth shit.

https://soundcloud.com/heartbreakdancer/fourth-of-july-original

I would say the cheapest might be a Samson Meteor USB microphone. It's 99 bucks so technically there are cheaper microphones, but the thing about microphones is that you need a phantom power supply for them to work. The Meteor just plugs straight into your computer. I used it a while back to record my covers of Great Expectations, She loves you etc.

Anyway nice song! Why does the guitar sound weird at times, though? Are you playing some weird kind of chords or are you just hitting the wrong string sometimes? Either way I liked your song.

Here's an excerpt of a song I'm working on:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1bUI5atgTeb

I had just about made my microphone work before I recorded this so it's very hasty and shoddy, but I wanted to record it to kinda show you guys the direction I'm taking with my solo music.

Harbortown wrote:

33RPMHero wrote:

This song is called, "Fourth of July".  Does anyone know the cheapest mic i can buy that is made for music? My computer one blew out so all I have in my iphone.  That thing can't record music worth shit.

https://soundcloud.com/heartbreakdancer/fourth-of-july-original

I would say the cheapest might be a Samson Meteor USB microphone. It's 99 bucks so technically there are cheaper microphones, but the thing about microphones is that you need a phantom power supply for them to work. The Meteor just plugs straight into your computer. I used it a while back to record my covers of Great Expectations, She loves you etc.

Anyway nice song! Why does the guitar sound weird at times, though? Are you playing some weird kind of chords or are you just hitting the wrong string sometimes? Either way I liked your song.

Here's an excerpt of a song I'm working on:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1bUI5atgTeb

I had just about made my microphone work before I recorded this so it's very hasty and shoddy, but I wanted to record it to kinda show you guys the direction I'm taking with my solo music.

Thanks for the kind words words bro and answering my question about microphones.

I really enjoyed that short clip you put up of what direction you are heading toward with your solo stuff. Can't wait to hear the entire thing.

Garsh. Finally. So the EP became essentially two songs but it is finally done and ready to be heard (hopefully). Here we go, Rose Boulevard. Lovelorn. https://roseboulevard.bandcamp.com/album/lovelorn

Oh, and you can follow us at @RoseBoulevard and visit us at https://www.facebook.com/roseboulevardmusic and all that internetty jazz.

EDIT: And you can totally add me as a friend on Facebook if you wish.

Jack wrote:

Garsh. Finally. So the EP became essentially two songs but it is finally done and ready to be heard (hopefully). Here we go, Rose Boulevard. Lovelorn. https://roseboulevard.bandcamp.com/album/lovelorn

Fuck yes, have been so stoked to hear this!

I downloaded it yesterday but still didn't had the time to really listen to it, but for what I've heard so far it sounds great!

good stuff.
It's just i CAN'T stand women singing (unless they have a really dark voice) and the whole thing is a bit too cheesy for my ears so yeah :Danyways i liked your old amped stuff more but i'm really interested in where this project goes.

Hanswurst wrote:

good stuff.
It's just i CAN'T stand women singing (unless they have a really dark voice) and the whole thing is a bit too cheesy for my ears so yeah :Danyways i liked your old amped stuff more but i'm really interested in where this project goes.

Well, thanks for being honest. I can't really help you with the female vocals or "cheesiness" because I love her voice and I write the way I write. But thank you for listening.

Jack wrote:

Hanswurst wrote:

good stuff.
It's just i CAN'T stand women singing (unless they have a really dark voice) and the whole thing is a bit too cheesy for my ears so yeah :Danyways i liked your old amped stuff more but i'm really interested in where this project goes.

Well, thanks for being honest. I can't really help you with the female vocals or "cheesiness" because I love her voice and I write the way I write. But thank you for listening.

yeah this wasn't supposed to be rude or anything its just.. i have a problem with women singing nothing special with your singer haha
and the way you write is a good way to write, sir   

I've got some originals on my page,but here is a cover of Otis Redding's Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=839563306069428

JimmyB wrote:

I've got some originals on my page,but here is a cover of Otis Redding's Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=839563306069428

wow i wasn't expecting this, like your voice on this one.

..i just did a cover of
Philadelphia by Augustines
https://soundcloud.com/black2white/philadelphia-augustines-c-o-v

and Orphans by our boys
https://soundcloud.com/black2white/o-r-p-h-a-n-s-gaslight-anthem

watcha think?

Not to be a dick, but aren't there two other threads for covers?

Here's a list of the main "personal music" topics.

https://thegaslightanthem.forumotion.com/t3342-post-your-band-here

https://thegaslightanthem.forumotion.com/t3900-other-covers

https://thegaslightanthem.forumotion.com/t2282-post-your-own-tga-covers-here

https://thegaslightanthem.forumotion.com/t3509-our-covers-of-the-horrible-crowes-songs



Basically what happened was for a while people used the "post your band" for all personal music - not only just for bands. The other cover threads were created around the same time more or less.

"Your music!" was an older, and arguably dead, topic that had been forgotten about (hadn't had many post either). Until it got bumped one day and everyone switched over to here. Then it turned into a general music posting topic.

- Your DSS history lesson for today

So yes there are other topics and feel free to post in them still. I mean I could combine the personal music/band stuff into one "original music" topic if there really is a need for the separation of covers. What ever everyone wants.