MeeMix Blog

MeeMix is thankful for all the good that's happened in the last 6 months since we launched our community beta. We've had a slew of new members from around the globe, positive press, a great redesign and awesome new features like Video Mode and Music Uploads. As such, we decided it was time to give back – shed some light on what our friends out there are doing to protect our planet and our friends in the sea.

MeeMix is now promoting the efforts of a super cool non-profit organization, Oceana.org. Oceana is working to protect the world's oceans and our precious marine life - including those on the endangered list – whales, sea turtles and more. Their international efforts are focused on changing governmental policy to protect fragile ocean environments, enabling us to live in a healthy, clean world for generations to come.

There's tons of ways you too can help. We've posted a slew of interesting facts on Oceana and more so you can find out more info. To learn more, click here.

Do it for the whales.

For your viewing pleasure, here's a round-up of some of our favorite recent articles about MeeMix.

Knowledge is power people, read up!

Mashable (June 24, 2008)

Tech blogger Stan Schroeder of Mashable wrote an exclusive piece on our new personalized Artist Widgets and Music Upload service. Mashable is the #1 Social Networking and Social Media News Blog on the web.

"Exclusive: MeeMix Gives Customization and Widgets to Musicians"



The Inquisitr (June 24, 2008)

Tech blogger Duncan Riley of Inquisitr reviewed the MeeMix service and taste prediction technology in comparison with that of Pandora, we loved his review !! The Inquisitr covers an eclectic mix of tech, pop culture and satirical news in the blogosphere.

"MeeMix would be a Pandora competitor, if it didn’t look like a 11 year old girls bedroom"

Arizona Republic (June 13, 2008)

Music journalist Larry Rodgers of the Arizona Republic Newspaper discussed the appeal of MeeMix for the adult Internet Radio novice. The article also features quotes from CEO Gilad Shlang as well as analysis from MeeMix Chief Musicologist Alon Libman. Arizona Republic is a leading newspaper in Arizona, USA.

"6 Web sites connect older listeners with new music"

TechCrunch (May 13, 2008)

Tech blogger Roi Carthy of TechCrunch announced the launch of our personalized "twin" Music Video Channels. TechCrunch is one of the most prominent and influential blogs on the Net covering technology start-ups, particularly in the Web 2.0 sector.

"MeeMix Remixes YouTube To Create Personalized Music Video Channels"

About.com (May 12, 2008)

Resident radio guide Corey Dietz of About.com featured MeeMix on his website hit-list for free Internet Radio. About.com (part of the New York Times company) is an online neighborhood of helpful experts, eager to share their wealth of knowledge with visitors.

"Make Your Own Radio Stations with MeeMix Internet Radio"

Thank you to our friends in the press - we appreciate your coverage and feedback!

The Mee Team

MeeMix has received top honors from the AlwaysOn Stanford Innovation Summit 2008 and has been selected as one of the fifty privately held companies to watch. CEO Gilad Shlang will present the MeeMix market strategy and vision as part of the Summit's CEO Showcase.

Innovators, reporters and industry insiders will convene upon the pristine Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California, from July 22-24, to share ideas and collaborate with the best and brightest new stars of the web.

MeeMix is thrilled to represent taste-prediction and personalization technologies at the event. MeeMix fans, be on the look-out for our tall, strapping CEO - Gilad would be thrilled to talk to you and hear what you have to say about the Mix.

All proceedings will be streamed on the Net - be sure to join the thousands of webcast viewers (20,000 to be exact) to catch Gilad's presentation.

Check the AlwaysOn website for webcast details at the start of the Summit. In the meantime, you may read the full list of programs and speakers here.

The Mee Team

First and foremost - It’s definitely a ploy by the band’s label, releasing a live album for every studio album this band releases, but somehow – this still works.

My Chemical Romance’s second album – The Black Parade, was a successful and quite entertaining piece of Teen Rock (emo?) with some Classic Rock aspirations, they certainly showed more ingenuity and talent than most current teen-oriented rock bands in the US, and this – a live album celebrating the end of The Black Parade’s tour, reflects the band’s energy and stamina when performing live.

So, it’s definitely an shameful money-maker for the label, bent on squeezing the band’s fans until they release another studio album, but the fact is that these guys perform with endless verb and they actually sound like they’re enjoying themselves, so I guess some of it has to rub off on the listener. Cash-in or not, it’s still well-worth a listen.

Recommended tracks:

"Teenagers": The band’s serious message is well-hidden in this cheerful sounding track.
"Welcome To The Black Parade": Queen meets punk rock with the best of results.

Is this the best G-Unit related album since The Massacre? You Bet. It is shockingly good actually. The latest two G-uniteseque albums, Beg For Mercy and Curtis, were the defining albums of a complacent G-Unit era. TOS is a return to the pre-Get Rich Or Die Trying mixtape steez G-Unit. The beats here are infinitely better than on Beg For Mercy and Lloyd Banks actually has me rewinding verses again - whatever he's doing with his voice, it works. He doesn't sound like Ben Stein any more. Even 50 raps like he still cares.

I can honestly say that I haven't enjoyed much from G-Unit since Get Rich or Die Trying, and although I was not really expecting anything crazy from TOS, especially after hearing the radio joints, I had a lot of fun here, especially in the first half of the album. "Casualties of War", "Piano Man", and "No Days Off" are seriously all bangers. Content wise, it does not sound as if they're trying to justify neither hip hop nor NY, it's not nostalgic or overtly defensive. It's just some hard music which lacks the near-classic joints to keep it in rotation for long, and which occasionally falls through on the production tip, but never by much. I can live with that.

Now On MeeMix!

Sing out loud, sing out proud – now both up and coming musicians and seasoned pros can upload their music to the MeeMix music catalogue.

Say wha?

Yup, your music will be integrated into the MeeMix music catalogue and played on the personalized radio stations of our members – reaching both your existing fans as well as new listeners we know will dig your sound and style (that's the MeeMix way – music taste prediction at its finest).

If you're a brand new artist, you'll be able to connect with a fresh group of listeners on our Internet Radio. We’re easily able to determine whose taste in music matches the goods you deliver.

For every musician whose material is integrated into the MeeMix music catalogue, a dedicated artist page is created. MeeMix Artist Pages allow fans to read more about you, your music, and get to know you on a more personal level.

To help out our up and coming musician friends, we've created a slew of artists widgets, empowering you with creative and easy ways of promoting your music across multiple platforms such as MySpace, your personal website and other pages across the Net.

MeeMix Artist Widgets present a range of facts and statistics about your fans as well as your own taste in music. Post widgets about your "fan locations", "your favorite radio station" and more!

Musicians and their fans have never been closer!

Registration is free and easy - upload your music now (and thank us later).

Beloved members – tune into your stations as usual and get ready to hear new and fresh music you're sure to love!

P.S Check out a review of the new feature at Mashable.com

American Rockers Miggs’ latest album – Unraveled, is an image of contemporary American Pop-Rock, one that honors the time old traditions of classic rock acts while updating them with some current Alternative Rock influences. With more than 150 shows and three albums, the band seems poised on a serious breakthrough. We here at MeeMix Internet Radio spoke with the band’s bassist, Michael Lombardo, about the band, its music – and the new album:



MeeMix: Hey Michael, first- congrats on Migg’s new album – Unraveled, I understand the album is doing well since its release, how are things going with it?

Lombardo:Thank you, it is doing well. It was nice to hear that some stores had already re-ordered more CDs.

M:How would you describe the band’s music to someone somehow unacquainted with it?

L:Rock, with a Pop flare.

M: I, as a listener, could hear a lot of classic American rock in your music, with The Eagles coming to mind, alongside more contemporary alternative rock such as U2, what would you say are the band’s most apparent influences?

L:Eagles? really? I don’t hear that, but definitely U2. We all come from different musical tastes, but it works for us as a collective.


M:Can you tell us about how did the band start out, and how did you become a part of it?

L:Don and I worked on some pre-production tracks for the Anyway album a few years back at my studio, when we both lived in NY. Don moved to San Francisco. 10 years later in Dec 2005, he called me to see if I was interested in touring, and there I am.

M:What were you doing as a musician before that?

L:I was working in a project for a solo artist, with Dino Danelli (drummer for The Rascals) managing, drugs got the best of the artist just as things were beginning to catch on fire, I was about to hang it up, but fate brought me back in when Don called around that time that other project failed.

M:The band is named after your guitarist/vocalist Don Miggs, does that mean that the creative process within the band is mainly directed by him, or is it a band effort?

L: Don does write the songs, but always asks for our input.

M: What are the ideas and subjects your guys deal with in your lyrics?

L: The world, and the people in it that affect us.

M: In your Myspace page you speak quite frankly about you being diagnosed with Cancer, and then beating it, how did you feel about writing about that so directly and communityly?

L: People were asking me, I delivered in the best way I know hoe – Directly and to the point..

M: Finally, I understand you guys are quite the touring band, what is planned for you guys now that the album is out?

L: Touring, touring, more touring, TV shows, touring, more touring! I love it!!

Hungry for new features and enhanced control over your personalized radio stations?

MeeMix is serving you just that – fresh and hot out of our oven is the newly designed Left Station Panel and Mood Control.

Here’s what’s cookin’ (how it works):

Share Your Personalized Music Station

Like a prize-winning pie, good radio stations should be shared (and then devoured). The new and improved “Send Station” feature makes sharing your prized and favorite stations with friends and family easy.

New – A unique (and simplified) link to tune in to your station - Post it to your blog, send it to friends or place it over your desktop for quick access.

New – A selection of Widgets for each of your stations – grab ‘em while they’re hot!

New - Send your station to friends via email.

Control Your Station Atmosphere

Sugar and spice and everything nice (or nasty) –the new Mood Control enables you to hear the music you crave based on how you’re feeling as you listen. From melancholy to cheerful (or optimistic), use the new “Atmosphere” slider to manipulate your station’s energy level and ambiance, and create a new and unique music experience in an instant.

Our musical taste buds are going crazy! Are yours?

Spice up your life music lovers!

Disturbed main-man David Draiman said he wrote this album to vent a lot of anger he had during a difficult year in his life, and it sounds like it. This is a much angrier and heavier album than their last one – Ten Thousand Fists.
All the other Disturbed elements are there, the groove-filled metal rhythms, Draiman’s unique vocal delivery, and the catchiness of the choruses that is there in almost every Disturbed song, yet something’s amiss.
It’s a decent album, but in my mind - not a lot more, solid riffs, great productions, but one thing is missing – really good songs, what their debut had in abundance, and Ten Thousand Fists had as well. This one has very few cuts strong enough to make it a worthwhile Hard Rock release for the band.
It’s still good, heavy fun for any Disturbed fan out there, but it seems their writing abilities need a bit of a shake-up at this stage of their career.

Recommended Track:
"Inside The Fire": the first single from the album is also probably the best, heavy and catchy stuff.

This album will probably dominate my summer speakers.
After all of the album leaks, the slew of subpar and on par mixtapes that have been released over the past two years, I didn't think that this album could ever live up to expectations, but listening to this for the first time had me geeked like I used to get back as a youngling for new releases. In fact, the first 7 songs are all phenomenal. The beats are all pretty simple and loveable, allowing Wayne to be his weird ass self. Thank god for drugs.
What I love about Lil' Wayne is how he basically ignores the strict rules of the game that every other rapper lives by: giggling like a girl on tracks, messing around with the vocoder on every other song, and generally sounding out of his brains for the majority of the album. So take that as a warning, this album is unorthodox, and that might turn off some fans who decided to listen to the album due to the "Lollipop" hype. But it has a unique sound to it, and for most part - creative beats and entertaining flow and lyrics from Wayne.

Recommended Tracks:
"Comfortable": this track is the real shocker for me. It's a legitimate love song, from an angle you don't really see songwriters take. It gets to me a little, which is baffling. A Wayne song plucked my heart strings?!

"Nothin' On Me": Dope beat with an 80s meets 2K sound. Almost sounds like something the Neptunes would drop back in the "Superthug" era, and as a bonus, a dope Fabulous verse.