Tiny Mix Tapes (or tinymixtapes) is a music webzine which regularly provides professional reviews of newly released albums. Events 590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. An online magazine is a Magazine that is delivered in an electronic form Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. An online magazine is a Magazine that is delivered in an electronic form The site focuses on new independent music and related news. In Popular music, independent music, often abbreviated as indie, is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels and an autonomous Originally called Tiny Mixtapes Gone to Heaven [1] and hosted on GeoCities, the site moved to its current domain in 2001. Yahoo! GeoCities is a Webhosting service founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet (BHI The site has received press attention for its "automatic mix tape generator", a feature that creates online mix tapes on reader request. A mixtape or mixed tape is a compilation of Songs recorded in a specific order traditionally onto a Compact audio cassette. Tiny Mix Tapes is also a featured reviewer on Metacritic. Metacritic is a Website that collates reviews of music Albums games, movies, TV shows, DVDs and Books.
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Description
The writing staff is composed of volunteers who often use colorful and expressive pen names. A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a Pseudonym adopted by an Author or their publishers to conceal their identity The co-founder and editor-in-chief is Minneapolis-resident Marvin Lin (code name Mr. P), who is supported by managing editor Grant Purdum. The News, Music Reviews, Automatic Mixtape Generator, Delorean, Concerts, Articles, Interviews and Tours are handled by Matt Weir, Jay, Trillian, Keith Kawaii, Leah, Nicolemc99, Leveer and Katiedid respectively[2].
The site was redesigned in December 2006. It now contains advertisements.
Features
Tiny Mix Tapes offers a variety of content, including music reviews, movie reviews, articles, interviews, and news. The "DeLorean" [3] section reviews music released before Tiny Mix Tapes began that may no longer be popular, albums that the writer believes "classic" or influential, or music that is significant to the writer.
Similarly, "Eureka" [4] consists of reviews of music that resonated with an individual writer. These tend to be underground avant-garde or experimental musicians, but there are no requirements that it be as such. Avant-garde (avɑ̃gaʁd in French) means "advance guard" or "vanguard
There is also a section devoted to interviews with musicians and a concert section where writers review live music shows.
As of 2008, Tiny Mix Tapes started reviewing films and now has a section devoted to film. This section also includes features on film-makers and other numerous subjects within the film medium.
The Automatic Mix Tape Generator
The Automatic Mix Tape Generator [5], or AMG, was created to offer a personal contribution to the site. Started in 2002, readers may submit a title or the theme for a mixtape, and a group of volunteers called the "Mix Robots" will compile a track list. A mixtape or mixed tape is a compilation of Songs recorded in a specific order traditionally onto a Compact audio cassette. Due to the large volume of requests as well as request redundancy, not all requests are filled.
Mix tapes are generated by a dedicated group of volunteers who have a sizable range in both age and musical interests. These 'robots', as they are referred to, produce and submit track lists fulfilling the request as they interpret it. Mixtape track lists are then available on the website. Most of the songs on the mix tapes come from indie or underground bands/musicians. Mainstream music is sometimes incorporated into the tapes, though often with a sense of irony. Irony is a literary or Rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or Discordance between what one says or does and what one means or
When the site was redesigned in December 2006, the AMG was temporarily replaced by a fondue recipe. In January 2007, the format was updated and the AMG came back online with new entries and selected archives. It is currently active.
Jokes Well Played by Tiny Mix Tapes
On March 30th 2007, Tiny Mix Tapes announced it was hosting a festival in Minnesota. Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers At this festival, long since dissolved indie heartbreakers Neutral Milk Hotel were billed to be "reuniting all over your Cheerios" as the headlining act. Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie Folk band. The band's chief Songwriter, Jeff Mangum, played with a number of other Cheerios is a Brand of Breakfast cereal created on June 19, 1941 and marketed by the General Mills cereal company of Amidst a blog flurry [6], and articles disputing the legitimacy of the event in Billboard [7] and Prefix [8], the festival was revealed as an early April Fools joke later the same day[9]. See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry
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References
- The Guardian: "The Guide: www. tinymixtapes. com/amg", by Johnny Dee, June 4, 2005
- Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, SC): "The mix has been nixed!", by Alexander Morrison, February 13, 2005
- Concord Monitor (NH): "Mixtape madness", by Vanessa Valdes, June 16, 2006
- Malay Mail (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia): "Playlist", September 21, 2005
- Billboard: "Neutral Milk Hotel Not Reuniting For Festival" by Jonathan Cohen, March 30, 2007
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