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Mighty No. 9, the spiritual successor to the Mega Man series of video games, has suffered yet another release date delay. According to the a post on the project's Kickstarter, the game won't be available to play due to the engine that it runs on not receiving any more updates. Instead of a February 2016 launch date, we'll have to wait for Spring 2016 to play this new game from the team of developers over at Comcept. -
New Kickstarter Campaign for Album Made Specifically for Cats
One man's decision to create an album specifically for cats inspired an abundance of puns. -
'Allison Road' Ditches Kickstarter Campaign for Publisher
Independent video game developer Lilith Ltd. caught the attention of the gaming world earlier in 2015 when the teaser trailer for Allison Road had us excited due to its similarities to the big-budget cancelled title Silent Hills' "P.T" trailer. Basically, our prayers were answered with this first-person horror survival title, so plenty of supporters visited Lilith's crowdsourcing campaign on Kickstarter to get some gameplay developed! This week, the studio announced that the campaign has been cancelled because they've signed on with game publish Team17 - which is great news! -
Batband Kickstarter Promises You'll Feel Music Through Vibrations in Your Skull
Are you tired of crappy ear buds that won't stay in? Are you sick of not being able to hear your co-workers when they call your name? StudioBanana Things might have the answer to your woes with a new Kickstarter project titled Batband, which promises to free your social hearing ear and transmit music through vibrations in your skull. -
Kickstarter Funds More Music Projects Than Any Other Category during 2014; Neil Young and 'Meow The Jewels' Big Earners
Kickstarter and crowd funding in general had their biggest year ever during 2014 and no subject matter was more popular on crowdfunding's most popular platform than music. More than 4,000 project were successfully backed on the site, more than any other category, including film & video, art and publishing. More than 18 percent of all Kickstarter campaigns finder during 2014 were tied to music. -
Kickstarter Campaign Aims to Immortalize Alternative Classical Music Scene in 'We Break Strings' Photo Book
An alternative classical music scene is as interesting as it sounds. Underground composers putting on classical gigs in a non-traditional setting is as punk rock as it gets--and coincidentally enough, it's coming from the U.K. -
Animated Tom Waits Video To Be Restored For 35th Anniversary
To honor the film's 35th anniversary, John Lamb will launch a Kickstarter campaign to restore the video. For an exhibition to be held in Los Angeles in March, the money raised will go toward the transfer of "the original live action footage of Tom Waits and the video pencil test to a contemporary format to be projected throughout the gallery; restoration and framing of original animation cels for display; and restoration of the Lyon Lamb Video Rotoscope used in the film's production." -
Symphonic Synchrony: Three New Devices That Allow Any Simple Object to Become a Beloved Musical Instrument
I don't know about you, but my band and I have a recurring joke that we can plug in and tune into our fruit in the van, hearing myriad scores and compositions of our own concoctions, some subjectively known as L'Orange: Suite Deux and Beet-le-mania. -
New York City Opera Shutting Its Doors After 70 Years
In a tragedy worthy of opera itself, the New York City Opera has breathed its last. -
The Column: Is Kickstarter Bad for Classical Music?
Many think online crowd-sourced funding the answer to our prayers. Or it could be a nail in the coffin. -
Five Quickies: Wynton Marsalis Touring 'Abyssinian,' 'Amélie' on Broadway, Dave Mustaine's San Diego Symphony, George Fetner's Kickstarter, Beethoven on Theremin
And with the world's best musicians, singers, dancers and actors going back to repertory work after their summer stocks, there's more good news happening now than there was, say, back in June... -
Five Quickies: Meese Acquitted for Parsifal, Sondheim Wins MacDowell, Arvo Pärt Kickstarter, Taylor Dayne's 'Cats,' Yummy Operatic Algae
In an effort to keep all you Classicalites abreast of each and every situation, we'll be trawling the web for the best headlines--those stories, those people making the biggest waves.
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