Only weeks after the much talked about Google/YouTube acquisition, we are proud to announce that Sinch Blog ™ will acquire the Sinch News page for an undisclosed sum *cough*1.6 BILLION*cough*.
The merger may not be immediately noticeable, but on our end it makes things a lot easier. We now add news and blog posts in the same place and everything is archived automatically.
More importantly, you will soon be able to subscribe to the Sinch News RSS feed. So news updates can be delivered right to your feed reader instead of you having to remember to check the site or wait for the email newsletter. This works the same as our blog and podcast feeds. I’ll post more info, along with the new feed very soon.
To our current blog subscribers:
Over the next few weeks we will be adding old news items to the new system. You may end up seeing a few old posts here and there showing up as new. This happened yesterday with an announcement about the battle of the bands show. So if you see something that sounds like old news or seems out of place, it probably is.
Longtime fans and visitors to this site will recall the promise of something called “Sinch TV” that was said to be “coming soon” about a year and a half ago. This is actually pretty typical for us. We say something is happening soon and then it either takes years or it just never happens. We do have good intentions. We just can’t keep up with what the voices in our heads are telling us to do.
So, anyway, we finally decided rather than wait until we can build SinchTV how we actually want to, with tons of cool features and a slick Flash interface, better to get in on this “new” video sharing thing while the shit’s still hot. This is a work in progress. More will be added…. uhh, soon. In the meantime, enjoy what we’ve posted so far, and let us know what you think.
Here it is, your SinchTV.
The site is now up and running (as you can see) on the new servers. Everything seems to be OK except for the music store. So if you are trying to purchase any of our mp3 downloads, they will not work right now. Please bear with us as we get this worked out.
We’ll post another update when the store is working again.
Thanks!
The site will be undergoing some maintenance today and will possibly be down for 20-30 minutes. When it comes back up certain services may not be working properly, including the forums, blog and music download store.
We’re expecting a few problems here and there so don’t worry if something isn’t working. Everything should be back to normal shortly.
Whatever problems we encounter (if any) will definitely be worth it. We’re migrating the site to Media Temple’s new Grid Server platform, which is a huge upgrade and gives us (among other things) a lot more space (100GB) and bandwidth (1TB) to work with. Many of you don’t know what that means, but trust me it’s pretty sweet. Or at least I expect it to be. I guess it’s a little premature to be raving about a service we haven’t even really used yet, but it sounds pretty sweet. We’ll see how it goes after the upgrade is complete.
The next round in the Bodog Battle of the Bands has been confirmed!
We will be playing on Monday, October 23 at the Trocadero Theater in Philadelphia, PA.
BUY TICKETS NOW!
Just like last time, our actual set time will depend on how many tickets we sell, but we’re shooting for the 8-10pm area.
Once again, WE NEED YOUR HELP! We’re competing against all the winners from the last round (a lot of these bands can actually sell tickets!), so we really need everyone to buy tickets and come out to this show and show your support!
If you came with 5 people last time, this time bring 10! Bring your little brother or sister and all their friends! It’s an all ages show, so everyone can get in. The more people we bring, the more votes we have and the better chance we have of getting to the citywide FINALS.
Let’s face it: blogs are everywhere. Everyone and their grandmother has one. Since we’ve started this thing back up, posts have been few and far between. And most of them are just the podcast posts.
The plan has always been to keep this thing updated on a daily basis and give our fans a reason to come back to the site every day, and hopefully give everyone something to talk about. Obviously that hasn’t happened yet. I don’t want to promise anything because we all know where that leads, but for at least the next couple weeks we’ll be posting a little more frequently. Well, I will at least.
I’ve been bookmarking stuff like crazy over the past few months, with the intention of posting about it all here. A lot of it is probably stuff that you’ve seen already, if you’re the kind of person who’s always seeing the newest thing to make the rounds of the popular blogs and sites like Digg.com. But I took the time to save all of it, so I’m gonna post about it anyway. At some point hopefully I’ll get caught up and I’ll actually be posting about new stuff. We’ll see how it goes.
As with everything else we do, we love to get feedback. So if you’re a “regular” reader of the blog and you appreciate the more frequent posting, leave a comment and let us know.
Our new digital EP, “Subdivisions” is now available!
Buy it here:
http://www.sinch.net/store
Consisting of re-interpretations of songs from 2005’s Clearing the Channel, the EP is constructed of samples from Drew Mazurek’s recordings as well as newly recorded material to create completely unique pieces of sound. Equipped with a laptop and a thriving passion for music technology, guitarist & sound designer Tony Lannutti led the band through the sessions that brought about this unique release.
And remember! We are selling this directly to the fans! This money comes right to us and definitely helps us out. We’re gonna be starting work on a new album soon and we’re gonna need money for studio time and all that fun stuff.
Thanks to those of you who bought it already. We appreciate it.
Well, after all was said & done, WE WON FIRST PLACE in round two of Bodog Battle of the Bands! We couldn’t have done it without your support! A huge thanks to everyone who bought tickets & came out to the show at the North Star! There will be another round to come, so we’ll need your support again in the near future. We’ll keep everyone posted when we have more details.
CHECK IT ON THE BODOG SITE!
Round TWO is tonight! We are playing at 10:00pm, so make sure to get there before that. Thanks to everyone who bought advance tickets. We sold the most out of all the bands and were able to get the time slot we wanted.
And to anyone who didn’t buy tickets already: They will have more tickets available at the door, so it’s not too late to come to this show!
TONIGHT, WED AUG 16
North Star Bar
27th & Poplar St
Philadelphia, PA
Thanks to everyone who voted for us, we finished as one of the top 20 bands in the Fresh Films contest. That means we were eligible to have our music featured in any of the films.
Fresh Films Atlanta chose “Silence Broken” for their film “The Testimony of Saint Grey“. You can watch it online right now and vote for them as many times as you want! Voting for them is like voting for us, so get over there and make it happen. If they win this thing, that’s even more exposure for our music, which is always a good thing.
Click here for the Fresh Films website!
Then click on “FILMS” and then on Atlanta on the left to watch the film. Please vote for them too! You can vote more than once, so just keep voting as much as you have time for!
