The Doors of the Kingdom

Knocking on the Door

Stuart Walker resides in a place called Ireland. Today is a very special day for Irish folk. It is St. Patricks Day and I thought that a great way to get in the mood, would be to mosey over to the Doors of the Kingdom, bang very loudly and if that doesn't work, ring the Gumbo bell for an eclectic blog of musical good. Remember to wear something green.

Something for Everyone

If you like a bit of blues, folk, dub or anything else, enter the Doors of the Kingdom, subscribe to the Stuart Walker podcast - Rhythm Radio, or cram your iPod full of funk, fun and folk from that very nice fella - Mr Stuart Walker.

Color your iPod

We Love Color

The BananaKiller is a wonderfully strange Banana. A mac music maker from the beautiful St. Tropez, France. BK's latest album, "We love color" is a tribute to the world of hue and color, all painted with music. The thing I love most about BK is the humor, each track is brimming with joy. If you ever feel down, this album is guaranteed to cheer your spirits. Life in BK land is very joyous, probably helped by the nice climate and beautiful people of St. Tropez. BK's passion is mainly dance music and his flair for this genre is apparent but doesn't end there. It's BK's take on the genre which is different.

A happy banana

Experience the wonderful world of The BananaKiller's music or better still buy from CD Baby or the iTMS.

iPod in a bottle

Bottled Tunes

Composed and inspired by the academically charged air of Cambridge, England. "Songs from the River" is the title to a new album from Paul "Bottled" Brazier. Paul has lovingly pieced together a mac production that is full to the brim with melodic, guitar driven tunes which you can bottle in your iPod. More trippy than a gallon of Absinth and fresher than Perrier. It washes through you, leaving you wonderfully refreshed and inspired.

Bottle this

If you have got the bottle to drink from Paul's cup you will be rewarded by Brit Rock at it's finest. From the beautiful "Another Day" to "Emeralds and Diamonds", Bottled will make you drunk with tone and harmony. Inspired by Syd Barrett, Gong, John Peel and the wonderful Cake, this is an album that will take your iPod to new exciting places.

Bottled Space

"A Trip to the Stars" is pure, Bottled space, an intergalactic journey on the rocket ship Telecaster which leads you into the awesome "Ocean of Light". "Another Day" and "So Beautiful" are a great start to the album and will prepare you for a trip on "Dr Mystiks Magic Flying Tea Towel" or even to make a little love on the up-tempo "Tonite".

A river runs through it

You can listen to many of the tracks for free but to really get the most from Bottled, you really should buy "Songs from the River".

Bend your iPod

Bent

Maggie Osterberg was one of the first artists to join Macidol. Known for her Media Wench site and for sometimes very forthright views. She works tirelessly for this site and if you want an honest opinion - she will deliver. The same can be said of her music.

Not Broken

Bent, Not Broken is an eclectic mix of tunes. Using copious amounts of gorgeous guitars and basses, she puts it all together using GarageBand and a Mac. "Night Bless America" a duo with George W is a trippy experiment which leads into "Paging Billy Reid" a lament to fellow Macidoler Billy Reid - the master of the pin-hole mic. Next up is "Mystery Turtle" which has some lovely licks and effects. Funny, all of the songs are different, but they all sound like Maggie. It's a very hard album to pigeon-hole - which is why I won't bother. Some music defies categories and this album is in a place of it's own. This is 14 tracks of inspiring and thought provoking music that should appeal to broad-minded musicians and listeners alike. Silicon Cowboy Sunset, Red Cow and LovMon being some of my faves.

Discover the wonderful world of Maggie Osterberg for yourself and bend your iPod.

Master of the Podacaster

Steve "B&Massa" Jay aka Kilroy da Geek is one of Macidol's star iPod troopers. This week, Steve's popular podcast - Blues Radio has been given high praise and 5 stars from Podspider. This is just one string to B&Massa's bow though - he has many others. Not least is his fantastic collection of music

Get Blues Radio on your iPod

Blues Radio is a weekly or monthy podcast of some of the hotter tunes from this music community. Produced and presented by Steve it is a personal and fun way to find some new tunage for your iPod. Download the latest issue and see which music grabs your ears, Steve will then tell you where you can download it too.

The B&Massa Music Store

The B&Massa music store lists Steve's CD's which you may order directly from him. I am a very proud owner of Steve's first CD - "The Other One". This chronicles some of Steve's work prior to GarageBand and is a great introduction to the music of one of Tasmanians finest. Steve has two other CD's for sale too. "Karma Sutra" explores amongst other subjects unromantic sex and hamsters! Sounds like a perverts wet dream but the title track regularly smashes up the charts and Idea Hamster is an essential listen. "Wall Jelly" is Steve's latest CD. It represents years of work, playing and recording and I am pleased to say doesn't disapoint. This labour of love is Steve's most personal piece yet and gets close to the heart of one of the warmest and hard working people, I have ever known.

B&Massa

New Music for your iPod

Bored? Need a little iPod action? Is the music on your iPod boring you? Do you crave, hot new iPod tunage?

New Mac Music Widget

If you use Mac OSX Tiger check out the New Mac Music Widget as featured by Apple. It loads the latest new music releases from this music community, all from your Tiger dashboard. This way you are only ever one click away from some exciting new music.

Free Download

Download the New Mac Music widget and once installed, you'll never be short of the latest in new music. This is a FreeWare widget, so you have no excuse not to use it.

Enjoy

The Members Choice

Music is a fickle subject. Everyone has different ideas about what music they like or don't. Your iPod may be full of Black Sabbath or Beethoven. The Member's Choice as created by Maggie Osterberg is one great tool for trying out new tunes on your iPod or on iTunes.

A guide to the best music for your iPod

These selections of iPod music are from the Macidol members. These are tunes that the musicians at Macidol are turned on by. Chances are that some of this music will make you and your iPod jump for joy. Most of the music here is available to download for free, no strings - you get Free Music Downloads and the artists get the feedback and recognition that they crave.

Original iPod Music

All music is totally original, you won't find any lame karaoke here thanks. This is 100 percent legal, and 100 percent addictive - as soon as you find one cool tune - you'll be feeding a new interest in the music that really touches you. Un-phased by multi-million pound marketing campaigns - this is good, honest music. Discover true musical freedom - check out the Member's Choice and join the growing army of music activists.

The Artists Choice

Houston, we have a problem. There is so much great free music at Macidol, it's hard to know where to start. Fortunately Joanna Sandsmark had a great idea. She started the Artist's Choice. These are the personal choices of the artists themselves, with a brief write-up. These songs were chosen to introduce you to the top three choices of each individual Mac Artist.

How to find the music

Mosey over to the Artist's Choice and click on a few links. You might not like every artist, but I can guarantee that some of the music there will fire you up. Give it a try and help discover the next generation of music for your iPod, before anybody else.

iPod Music Reviews

The Apple iPod has just about redefined the music business. In conjunction with iTunes, the iPod is responsible for shaping the way we listen to and find great music.

Free iPod Music

Macidol.com have thousands of artists freely sharing their original music. This is music of a different value, not cultivated by record companies or marketing companies. This is music played, as it was always intended - for fun. So our goal now is to try and present some of the best acts available from Macidol, as well as the iTMS. We want to ignite a spark of interest in the fine music available here and blow your mind with some wonderful new tunes.

Set your iPod free

Our goal is to set your iPod free, expand your musical palette and help you discover new artists and original songs. Freedom is not easy, but with work you can decide for your self the music you like, get ahead of the name, straight to the source this is the music that floats the musical boat of Macidol. This is pirate radio for the iPod generation. 50 000 watts of pumping new tunage to expand your mind and fatten up your iPod

Playlist Passions

We will show you new tunes, new tools for finding music and set you off in the right direction on your quest for happening harmonies or groovy grunge. Enjoy the ride as we present a collection of top tunes for your favourite music player

You don't need an iPod

We believe in open standards. You don't need any proprietary software to listen to our tunes. If you can play MP3's you will be happy here - all of our music is in MP3. It will work on your phone, MP3 Player and anything else that can play an MP3.

As Mac users we have for years been excluded by Nazi web designers, who won't let us access their websites unless we have some flavour of I.E. web browser - we know how much this sucks. We are keen to end this O.S. Racism and bend over backwards to ensure that all users have a great listening experience.