Personalised playlists launched!
March 7th, 2008
We have now launched what has been one of the most-requested features for idiomag - a personalised mp3 player to accompany the magazine. You will now receive a playlist of suggested tracks, based on the selection of articles that you are reading.
Previously, relevant music was targeted to each article, but there were few playback controls. This independent player now allows you to have complete control whilst reading the magazine, with integrated click-to-buy links, and optional intelligent-skip functionality: to fast forward the playlist to the relevant track when the page is turned.
Hope you like it as much as we do. Please let us know how we can improve it - and it goes without saying that we will be increasing coverage of artists and improving the quality of selected tracks over the next month or so.
Top of the Ox
January 28th, 2008
A month or two ago, I found myself on stage at Oxford’s Carling Academy, giving away an award in the Top of the Ox awards gig. It was a great evening, with 4 support acts, three main acts, and an awards ceremony thrown in. The artists were very diverse, encompassing slightly random, but likeable, electronica, all the way through piano pop, funk rock, and metal. It was also great to see a range of experience on show, with some bands clearly having a very well-worked set, and others (most remarkably, Sarah Warne, who won the competition) having hardly never performed live before! My personal favourites during the evening were Stornaway, Dan Hammersley, and Helium Soul. And everyone seemed to enjoy our idiomag balloons. Or was it just the helium they were enjoying…
Many thanks to the Top of the Ox team for getting us involved. Within idiomag, there are several reviews of bands who competed in the last battle of the bands competition - so in case you haven’t seen them, here are some links:
Billboard & idiomag
October 12th, 2007
Just a quick post for now…
We have signed up loads of new contributors over the past week. These include the (self-proclaimed) “world’s premier music publication” - Billboard.com. Well, perhaps we are the “universe’s premier music publication”… ha.
