Vanatei featured on FrostWire
By Valerie
Before this you might not have heard of Vanatei [Va-neeh-tee], and after, you’ll either find your next favorite female rapper or move on to find somebody else. I’m not exactly big on female rappers myself, but the few that I’ve discovered I actually really liked. One of the latest female MCs I’ve come across is Vanatei.
This spunky girl from Newark, New Jersey is not just a rapper but also an advertising guru. [She set up and manages her own advertising business.] Her skills as a rapper is something to rave about as well, with her album Dis Bish Got Moola, showcasing her knack for creating catchy beats while spitting out stark lyrics and producing good rhythm. Continue reading “Vanatei featured on FrostWire”
Easily making available millions of LEGALLY FREE files.
So in 2007 (or was it 2008) we started FrostClick to give it a bit more structure to our mission of leveling the playing field for content creators all over the world.
Meeting hundreds of content creators, downloading and listening to thousands of songs, and a few million legal shares later, our dream of sharing free content on FrostWire has started to take more meaning, and we’re starting to get so much great feedback in regards to our FrostClick/FrostWire project that we know we are on the right path.
In the process, we developed an Android app (which is being re-written for BitTorrent support as I write this), and we learned from scratch as much as we could about BitTorrent to make FrostWire (we think) a BitTorrent client for the rest of us. All of this has built our confidence to embark on a much more ambitious project that we are sure we’ll be able to deliver, but only with your help.
Here we go…
If you put together all the unsigned bands on MySpace, Bandcamp, Jamendo, Free Music Archive (and a huge list of sites we’ve compiled throughout 2011) you end up with millions of singers/bands.
In a world on which media distribution has changed fundamentally thanks to the internet and digital media, culture has quickly changed, as always faster than our legislators. Many content creators of all walks of life are over and over repeating the same thing. We don’t need intermediaries, writers, musicians, film makers, are taking distribution in their hands and handing out content to you for free, so you enjoy it, so you get to know them.
In some cases, they will just give you a taste so you buy the rest, in some cases they will give you the whole thing and leave it up to you to pay, in some cases they even let you sell their content and remix it.
They have realized they gain more by sharing than locking away their content. When you take Big media out of the picture, 50% of distribution costs go away, another 40% fo commission costs go away, therefore sharing makes a hell of a lot of sense, since it’s free promotion. Your content speaks for you, and by being open more business models open up organically to you. Your music can end up in movies, commercials, documentaries; If you become known you’ll make a lot more by wearing a piece of clothing of X brand than selling copies, you can become the channel (if you’re into that).
However, now we face a new challenge, how do we find all of this. Our first step has been to integrate several general purpose bittorrent search engines into FrostWire, and manually researching and listening to your recommendations, which end up every day in the form of 2 or 3 daily posts on FrostClick.com.
Say that there’s only 3 million bands/singers all over the world, and that each one is willing to share under Creative Commons at least 5 songs, that leaves us with at least 15 million songs to discover, that’s about 30 years worth of music we’d have to go through, a humble team like ours just cannot do that, but millions of people could do it in less than a month and help us rate it, review it, share it.
Now add to that all the free content in the form of free software, video games, papers, books, short films, documentaries… the amount of free content available is enormous. Beautiful isn’t it? And to think all these years we’ve been told what to listen to, what to buy, when we could be having so much fun just discovering the magical talents of all of us. Our technological reality now allows for this and we think given our know how in Free Content and Computer Sciences we will show you the way to get to all of this content with jut a few keystrokes.
If you haven’t guessed it by now, yes, we are currently indexing all the free content in the world, and we need your help.
It’s in our plans, that in 2012 you will see another checkbox on the FrostWire search filters that will say “FrostClick”, and which will show you results out of millions of songs, videos, books, and free software we’re currently indexing.
Not only that, we’re also building the next generation of FrostClick.com. We believe tools like crowd-sourcing, machine-learning, social networking, affinity algorithms, we’ll be able to make the discovery process easier for you.
We’ll need to grow our community for these content discovery efforts, we’ll need artists, developers, bloggers, and passionate content creators willing to tell their stories about sharing to make it all happen.
These are our dreams, let’s dream together.
Beware of frostwire-software-p2p.com. It’s a #Scam #Fraud #Impostors
First of all…
DOWNLOAD ONLY FROM THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FROSTWIRE.COM
DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR PAY the website “frostwire-software-p2p.com” for FrostWire.
frostwire-software-p2p.com is not affiliated with FrostWire in any way, yet they use our trademarked logo and trademarked name to sell we don’t know what and by asking personal information to users before giving them a FrostWire download.
frostwire-software-p2p.com will try to charge you around $30 a year for a ficticious VIP Access and Supercharge internet connection while putting our name.
We try to go after these sites but they fall out of the jurisdiction of the DMCA in many cases.
Download only from the official website, FrostWire.com, absolutely free, use it all you want, always turbocharged and open sourced.
Selling FrostWire is not illegal or against our software license, in fact one of the freedoms of the GPL license allows others to sell GPLed software, however, using our trademark and pretending to be us to sell our software is a very deceiving practice. Users don’t get the official installer, instead they get installers full of spyware and this damages user’s computers and our reputation.
How to Search
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Kellee Maize thanks the FrostWire community
Kellee Maize thanks the FrostWire community for the first 100,000 downloads of her album “Integration”
#MusicMonday recommendations from FrostClick
Welcome to the first of the #MusicMonday series of posts on the Official blog. In honor to the Twitter #MusicMonday meme, we’ll be recommending you some free music that you can download and safely share on FrostWire since that’s the way it’s creators wanted it, free for all. This music is curated by the folks at FrostClick.com who today are waiting for Kellee Maize’s Integration album to break 100,000 downloads in 20 days.
Giraffe: There Is No Devil – gorgeous folk alt country compilation
Carrying the moniker Giraffe for this record, James Gardner releases his second compilation: There is No Devil. The album is a lush collection of folk, country alternative that’s perfect for fans of artists like Bon Iver or similar soft folk singers.
The songs resonate with acoustic guitars, beautiful singing and a catchy (sometimes odd) melody fit for most folk lovers. It’s an album that could serve as a worthy background to a laid back afternoon where you just want some simple but engaging music to keep you company.
The Juliets: Perfect Season – upbeat orchestra pop
After the successful self-titled debut album, The Juliets are poised to take over the music scene.
Formed in late 2008, the five-piece band of Jeremy Freer (piano/guitar/vocals), Sarah Myers (violin/vocals) and Kaylan Mitchell (cello) manages to seize new-age pop and classical music, applying their own twist with a violin and cello.
Perfect Season is produced by the band along with Dave Feeney and was recorded during February and March this year. It introduces the addition of Ashton Hopkins (bass) and Jaclyn Phillips (drums) producing a 12-track record of raved up, string-heavy music.
You Me and Apollo: Cards with Cheats – melodic acoustic folk that should be on your playlist
For moments when all you need is a sweet voiced singer with his guitar serenading your quiet afternoon; You Me and Apollo should make for a really good company.
The guy behind this sonic ensemble is Brent Cowles. A pastor’s son from Fort Collins, Cowles started writing and creating songs at the age of 14. Thanks to an early start, he developed a beautiful sound that resonates with both quiet and upbeat tempos, mesmerizing vocal work and skillful guitars.
Simplicity and intrigue are both present in his work, something that makes you want to tune out the world and simply tune in to his songs.
Captain Stu: Free Music EP – upbeat, highly addicting blend of ska, funk, and punk
Based in Cape Town, South Africa, Captian Stu has been performing throughout the region ever since 2003. The five piece band brings us some of the most upbeat sounds I heard in a while; and with the unique and highly addicting blend of ska, funk, punk, and just a touch of fresh African flavor, their music will surely bring back all the wonderful days of summer that quickly got away.
So go ahead and get yourself a little bit of sunshine infused beats of the Free Music EP. And yes, just as the title suggests it is yours to enjoy entirely free of charge.
WARNING: FrostWire10.com, FrostwireDownload.org, FrostWire.name are malicious impostor sites, beware of frauds and copycats
We learned today that FrostWire10.com and FrostWireDownload.org, two sites that not only infringe on our trademarked name and logo are now on the first page of Google Search Results, above CNet and Wikipedia.
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These sites not only use our trademarked name and logo without our permission, they distribute an installer that is not the official FrostWire installer, when you run this installer it will try to install RealPlayer (no matter what you do) thus probably abusing on RealPlayer’s affiliate program, and they’ll also install some other dubious offers even if you uncheck them.
We are trying to contact the DNS and hosting companies that house these fraudsters.
Please DO NOT DOWNLOAD FrostWire from other websites than FrostWire.com, CNet, SourceForge, Brothersoft, and FrostClick.com
DO NOT PAY FOR FROSTWIRE: The only official website is FrostWire.com
The stub they offer, shows a malicious RealPlayer offer that’s impossible to refuse.
The text on it points to a a license page hosted in this domain freedownloadsoft.net
DNS searches on frostwire10.com and frostwiredownload.org show cloaked registrars, but they didn’t bother to cloak freedownloadsoft.net, here’s the DNS information:
[REGISTRANT]
Organisation Name: Pinball Corp
Contact Name: William Freeman
Address Line 1: 3600 136th Place SE
Address Line 2:
City / Town: Bellevue
State / Province:
Zip / Postcode: WA 98006
Country: US
Telephone: +1.0114252791177
Fax:
Email: wfreeman@pinballcorp.com
Pinball Corp operates http://pinballcorp.com/ and http://pinballpublishernetwork.com/ and we’re trying to find out if they’re behind these two sites or if they can lead us to the culprit.
This is what you see when you run their installers:
Certainly NOT the FrostWire installer.
Try Cancelling the offer, good luck with moving Forward without accepting the offer, you’ll have to install RealPlayer to move Forward.
Doesn’t end there, 3 more offers, don’t bother unchecking them, it will install some.
Eventually it downloads an old version of FrostWire lord knows from where, since the version they download has been long discontinued and it’s not compliant with the FTC order for default settings and privacy requirements.
After you’re done, get ready for a world of hell, you will be receiving popup after popup, which try to get you to enter your cellphone number for lord knows what, probably to charge you a monthly fee and to spam the hell out of you via SMS and Phonecalls.
FrostWire.name
This other site, even goes to the extend of putting “Copyright FrostWire” at the bottom of their page. They have copied a lot of copyrighted content from our site, including our faq, and they’ve managed to somehow get on top of all search engine rankings.
The software you download from this site is not frostwire, it’s something called MusicFrost, when we tried it it didn’t launch, but the installer managed to install a toolbar without even asking. Then after the installation we were prompted to sign up and pay for their service.
BEWARE OF SCAMS. Get FrostWire ONLY From the official website, frostwire.com
Please stay away from unofficial websites.
If you can help us find any information about the operators of this sites please write us at contact@frostwire.com
If you could report these sites (http://frostwire10.com and http://frostwiredownload.org) to Google it’d be of great help
Selling FrostWire is not illegal or against our software license, in fact one of the freedoms of the GPL license allows others to sell GPLed software, however, using our trademark and pretending to be us to sell our software is a very deceiving practice. Users don’t get the official installer, instead they get installers full of spyware and this damages user’s computers and our reputation.
“The Ugly Club” featured on FrostWire
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The Ugly Club is one of those bands whose record you hold on to long after listening to it for the first time. Made up of Ryan Egan, Taylor Mandel, Joe Stasio, Ryan McNulty, and Rick Sue-Poi, the group combines different instruments and genres to create a unique sound that impresses.
Visions of a Tall Girl EP is a 4-track record that emanates with an eclectic progressive indie rock sound. It is complicated and intriguing while at the same time easily likable. This is the second release from the group. Their other EP, Sing What You Want, helped pave the way for the band’s easy listening sound to gain a wider audience.
Despite calling themselves The Ugly Club, there’s nothing ugly about their sound at all. In fact, the compilation is composed of tracks that are beautifully recorded, incorporating clean instrument work, great lyrics and very catchy beats. It’s something you can pop into your headphones and enjoy all day. That’s what I did.
The EP is quite short which is a bit frustrating after you’ve developed a taste for their sound. Nevertheless, the few tracks it features is enough to convince and make a convert of any indie rock lover of the band’s capacity to entertain. The FrostWire promo incudes one more bonus track from “Sing What You Want”, so you can enjoy the band just for a little longer.
Starting with Visions Part I, you get a peek at the groups’ slightly melodramatic side. It’s a slower track compared to the rest but it has that charm, much like early Coldplay songs where they stay stuck in your head for a long time. It beautifully transitions into a full-blown indie rock love affair with Parks. Don’t be fooled though, by the 2 minute mark the eclectic side of the band kicks in and the song takes on a more punk rock route instead of the easy-listening indie it started with.
Visions Part II continues the formula, starting out strong with pockets of slower indie pop and jazz sprinkled in between the single. The fourth track, Hope We Survive, is my favorite. The boys strip it down for this one, incorporating percussion, tambourines, acoustic guitars, melodic vocals and an amazing steady beat. They lyrics are quite charming as well.
Overall, this is one EP you really shouldn’t pass up. It’s been awhile since I’ve listened to a free record that I could enjoy from beginning to end. (It’s mostly just a selection of few songs.) However, with Visions of a Tall Girl, it was easy to fall in love with the tracks. Really top quality compilation if you ask me. Check it out for yourself.
Related Links:
The Ugly Club on BandCamp
The Ugly Club on Twitter
The Ugly Club on Facebook
The Ugly Club on Myspace
The Ugly Club on iTunes
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New FrostWire Sticker on a DrumSet
Thanks to musician Brandon B. for sending us this picture of the new FrostWire Sticker proudly rocked on his drumset.
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