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How To Internet Music

How to create a happy soundtrack for your app

One of the hardest things for amateurs to do when coming up with a great video, web game, or smartphone app is to come up with a high quality music bed to accompany the narration or gameplay.

At worst, it becomes an annoying din that the user has to tune out or turn off.

At best, it’s a hooky catch that transcends beyond the game to become an entity unto itself.

Super Mario Theme

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Music Video

Video Fun: A music video in one single take by Eytan and The Embassy

Web Watch has covered one-take music videos before, such as this LIP DUB.

And considering how hard it is to make a video in one take, the coordination involved, etc – doing one well is when we should take notice and remind people what videos are supposed to be about.

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Music Video

Video Fun: The Evolution of Music (twinkle, twinkle edition)

Parents everwhere struggle with listening to that old child-friendly music over and over, trying to find ways to stop going mad.

Maybe it’s not the song that’s the problem, but the way that it’s presented that’s the issue.  Maybe if you were able to take one of those ever-popular children’s songs that you absolutely couldn’t hear one more time, and heard what it would sound like when done in the style of the music of your generation (whatever generation you are from, that is).

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10 Things How To Movies Music sports TV Websites

How much does it cost to book a band?

A while back, Web Watch told you HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO BOOK THE DAN BAND, as seen in The Hangover.  Or, if you really want to relive the entire HANGOVER movie trilogy, Web Watch mentioned how much it would cost you to BOOK ZACK GALIFIANAKIS or KEN JEONG.

But maybe, just maybe – you’re a bit more sophisticated than that.

Maybe you have $20,000 burning a hole in your pocket and you don’t know what to do with it.

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10 Things Gambling Games Music sports Websites

Let’s play a game: Race Horse or Song Title?

Let’s play a game: “Race Horse or Song Title”?

It’s a fun game to play during TRIPLE CROWN season, where gamblers everywhere turn to the KENTUCKY DERBY, PREAKNESS, and BELMONT to crown the fastest horse in the land.

But while we all chuckle over the wacky names that horses are given, one does have to wonder where those names come from, right?

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10 Things Music Travel

20 Greatest Bands with Regional or Geographical Names

So the other day, Web Watch was talking with our friends about BANDS WITH REGIONAL NAMES.

So we decided to come up with the ULTIMATE REGIONAL BAND NAME LIST.

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Gadgets Internet Music Websites

The Band Name Generator

Has it really been almost 14 years since Web Watch last shared with our readers a website about a ROCK BAND NAME GENERATOR?

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10 Things Music

The 5 Worst Songs to Hear on Repeat

A few years ago when the TV show SURVIVOR was unique and different and much more awesome than it is today (not because today’s version is less challenging, but because Survivor has become more mainstream when compared to other programming — and because Web Watch has an awesome idea for Jeff Probst and crew that we’d love to see implemented on a future season of Survivor… if only Probst would return our calls)… where were we?

Ah – yes, a few years ago when the TV show SURVIVOR was unique and different, Web Watch helped with a promotion entitled URBAN SURVIVOR.  The premise was exactly the same, with contestants living in unfamiliar circumstances and having to compete in challenges to survive until the end.