A little detail about this widget some have noticed is that when they go to "share" it they only get the embed for the song they're listening to at the time and not the whole widget. What you can do if you'd like to share the whole player in a widget is to click the link on the player that takes you to the profile page and then click "share". From the profile page (e.i: http://www.soundcloud.com/BelaCulo ) the share button will include all of the songs in the player in the widget embed code and display the player just as you see the one included in this post. You can even customize the colors!
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
You Can Still Hear Estranged On SoundCloud Or Myspace
Okay, I didn't used to think that ReverbNation was homophobic or would sabotage someone like me, but perhaps I was wrong. As many of you have found-out, my 1st song in my player, Estranged, won't play. It's even holding-up the player initialization on the widgets. Then, to add insult to injury (how many of you'd be tiffed, if not totally distressed over it?), there's no way to contact ReverbNation to try to get an answer or get it fixed...a "forum"? Really?!? You've got my promo song all jammed-up and you refer me to a "forum"? Alright, to spite this obvious blatant disregard or sheer sabotage, whichever the case may be (can't ask them), I ask that anyone who wanted to check-out Estranged to NOT let ReverbNation have the satisfaction of depriving you of it and that you simply click on our SoundCloud or Myspace links and check it out there. If ReverbNation addresses and fixes this problem, I'll remove this post since it'll be a non-issue at that point.
In update to this post:
I re-uploaded Estranged on ReverbNation and moved the initial, broken upload from the top of the player down to the bottom, which messes with my 5 song EP number (6 uploads to equal 5 songs). I'm not concerned with the loss of (count) statistics so much as I'd like for my promo song to actually PLAY when someone clicks the play button.
Not too long after doing this, and renaming the initial upload with "BROKENupload" added-on to the title, it started playing again. But this was after I already stopped trusting ReverbNation's player to properly rep me and switched-out all of their widgets for SoundCloud player widgets on the various websites I'd embedded to. That, in itself, was a major unexpected inconvenience and hassle. But I couldn't leave my fans at the mercy of a ReverbNation music widget that simply refused to initialize or play, now, could I? I had no idea how long it was going to hang in limbo or if it was ever going to work again. I know people are checking out my sites and expect to hear a song when they hit play and that simply wasn't happening with ReverbNation, all of a sudden, and it was all due to one song (the top one) hanging-up; the rest played fine.
So, in short: I'll stick with the SoundCloud widgets for now, since they're there already.
What Is Pseudo Punk? The Answer & True Definition
If the question is "what is Pseudo Punk?" the proper answer would be that it's a genre of music created in 1992 by Vincent-Nick Ciofani of Detroit. The songs fit the definition in the lyrical sense by seeming to be about one subject but they're actually about another (ergo: "pseudo"). There are also musical details that come together to create the distinctive sound that also sets it apart from other Punk genres. The term "Pseudo Punk" was originally coined to describe the genre created by Ciofani. All other uses of the term since then are improper uses of the descriptive that almost appear to be in existence solely to sabotage the true meaning or the genre it describes.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Pseudo Punk Turns 21 Years Old This Week
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This weekend marks the 21st anniversary of the creation of Pseudo Punk!
To commemorate the 21st birthday of Pseudo Punk, a 5 song EP was created to celebrate its endurance.
Although many social networking sites for musicians were reluctant to acknowledge the genre, some super cool sites do provide a "sub" genre option for writing it in, even though Pseudo Punk is a category of its own.
Pseudo Punk and Acoustic Pseudo Punk were created in Detroit in 1992 by Vincent-Nick Ciofani III. While a few musicians and artists dabbled in it, Vini was the primary standing artist who kept churning out the Pseudo cuts in spite of the adversities, like a loss of players/band members, homelessness, betrayal, and a loss of family to a feud, he suddenly faced once he dubbed his new creation.
A pioneer of the mix tape, Vini created a mix tape from the various acts he was working with at the time. By 1993-94, Acoustic Pseudo Punk appeared on the "Sons Of Thunder" and "Boanerges" mixtapes Vini was selling in the Detroit area. Only released on cassette, the tape included 3 acts: "Sons of Thunder", "Brother John" (they were unaware of the real Brother John at the time), and "Mr Bigstuff" (which created 1 powerhouse God rap/church rhyme titled "the Walk").
Although more than a thousand tapes were sold, all word-of-mouth, with no internet involvement, you'd be hard-pressed to find one still in existence due to the fact that those who bought them listened to them until they were wore out. Long after Vini had sold-out and stopped selling the tapes, he was bombarded with requests for replacements to the ones his fans had worn-out and was asked by some to replace them with CDs "so they'd last longer". Had Vini responded to the market demand for his songs back then, perhaps there'd be a CD in existence now that's not a lossy dub from an old tape.
Vini's powerhouse cut, "Estranged", was written in 1998-99 while he was fronting a Gaylord act going by "Nebula" (they were unaware of the other guys already using the name). After a confusing false start with the band and 2 shows they bombed, Vini left for awhile and then returned to them with his Pseudo Punk as a peace offering and a "secret weapon". Two other songs were also written from this temporary reunion, "Prick" and "Super Freek". Both were very good and accomplished, even though they needed to be rerecorded; but "Estranged" was the cut that refused to go away.
So, with the Bela Culo Pseudo Punk release comes the 21st birthday of Vincent Ciofani's still unrecognized (underdog) genres, Pseudo Punk and Acoustic Pseudo Punk.
A gift for the die-hard Pseudo fans is this widget that they can share with others online.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
A Free Song For Charitable Causes & Fundraisers
If you’re conducting a fundraiser for a good cause and lack a reciprocal product or gift, you may select a song for downloading from the Bela Culo Pseudo Punk EP at https://soundcloud.com/BelaCulo (for FREE) with our blessing. If you create a hard copy CD for your cause that any of our songs appear on, we’d also like a copy: POB 105 Grayling, MI 49738…If you’d like to secure a WAV copy for your CD (which will sound lots better than an mp3), email BelaCulo@gmail.com
Friday, July 19, 2013
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