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June 8th, 2010 by will

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Pop-Up Shades are LCD screen protective covers, which also double as glare guards. These sturdy and lightweight covers are easily installed (and removed), but most importantly help to protect a digital camera’s expensive LCD screen. When flipped up, the shade provides easier viewing of the display in bright sunlight.

Universal Pop-Up Shade for 2.5

The cover pops up to form a three sided canopy over the LCD to diminish glare and folds right back down when you’re finished. Even with the shade flipped up an optically clear plastic guards the LCD preventing damage to the screen.

Universal Pop-Up Shade for 2.7/2.8

The Universal Pop-Up Shade is designed to fit hundreds of cameras, both new and old. The Universal shade attaches to your camera by a non-residue adhesive.

The adhesive does not damage the camera when the shade is removed, nor does it leave behind any film. An optically clear plastic protects your camera’s screen, and the simple pop-up design allows for easy opening to block the glare.

The two-part design enables easy removal of the shade while keeping the clear plastic in place for protection. This shade is perfect for those with a Point-and-Shoot camera.SALE NOW ON

Currently available at playrecord.net are the Universal Pop-Up Shades for 3.0″ LCDs, 2.7/2.8″ LCDs and 2.5″ LCDs all available in either a silver or black finish. You can view these by clicking on the size that will fit your camera or view the whole range in our photography category.


In adition, all the pop up shades are on an amazing special offer price which can be seen in our special offers section of the website.

Cheers…..

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NEW RimRisers – Snare Drum Rim Extensions

May 7th, 2010 by will

Introducing the RimRisers – Snare Drum Rim Extensions which is a Cross Stick Performance Enhancer.

RimRisers

Rim Risers provide increased height, giving better grip on the stick and greater player comfort. A huge impact on cross-stick or rim shot playing styles, without interfering with standard stick snare drum playing styles.

They come with a full fitting kit and instructions. RimRisers can be quickly fitted or removed and require no permanent modifications to the snare drum.

The RimRisers are available from playrecord.net in both the Black and Chrome finish.

Click here to view a video of Donnie Marple checking out the RimRiser.

Cheers….

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Shaw VCD – Heavy Duty drum set practice mutes

April 28th, 2010 by will

The Shaw VCD – Heavy Duty drum set practice mutes are very popular mute pads which are available from playrecord.net.

There are two packs which include mutes for a full drum kit, the Rock Set Sizes – 12″, 13″ & 16″ toms with 14″ snare and the Fusion Set Sizes – 10″, 12″ & 14″ toms with 14″ snare.

Each pack includes 3 tom head mutes and a snare head mute.

Both packs also include a heavy duty stick-on, re-usable bass drum mute which will fit any size kick drum & can also be used with a double pedal.

Additionally, it also features 2 x overhanging cymbal mutes and a hi-hat mute, plus an ‘inner disc’ that is used between the hihat cymbals.

Each pack also includes full fitting instructions.

Look out for the individual mute pads being sold separately….. Coming soon to playrecord.net

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Bigdog Drum Stuff now available from playrecord.net

April 9th, 2010 by will

Bigdog logoWe are please to announce that we have introduced the  Bigdog drum stuff range to our catalogue.

Products include bass drum pedals, standard and pro versions both with a single or double pedal. Also a large variety of stands including cymbal, snare and hi-hat stands all available in their top end heavy duty range down to the lightweight range.

Bigdog drum throne

Also now available are the Bigdog drum thrones, again, from the budget up to the luxury versions.

One of our favourite Bigdog products is the Bigdog Bass Drum Double Pedal (PRO).
Bigdog double bass drum pedal (pro)This, in our opinion, is up there with the likes of the Iron Cobra double bass drum pedal and it features the cool unique Bigdog blue finish footplate. Besides the cool look and great quality, the Bigdog Bass Drum Double Pedal (PRO) is also very affordable in comparison to the likes of the Iron Cobra.

Bigdog practice pad

All the Bigdog hardware is now available to buy from playrecord.net, many of which with a special introductory price for a short period of time which can be viewed in the special offers section of our website.

All the accessories will be available in the upcoming weeks so keep coming back to see the new lines being added to our catalogue. To view all our Bigdog range please click here

Cheers…

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NEW T-Shirt lines now available!

March 24th, 2010 by will

Mr Drum BrownWith the increasingly popular range of men’s T-shirts available from PlayRecord.net, and the hope of some warm weather in the near future, we are pleased to announce that the range has now been considerably increased!

Mr Drum Blue

There are new designs available and we have increased our range of sizes which go from small all the way up to XXLarge.

In Addition, we have the all new baby, children and ladies tops range all with many new designs. Like the men’s T-shirts, these are also available in a full range of sizes.
Trainee

As a special introductory offer, ALL the baby, children and ladies tops have been price cut for a limited time. Many of these can been seen in our “Hot Products” on the front page of our website. All the offers can be viewed in our “special offers” section and the full range can be viewed in the T-shirt categories.
Female Pink

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Facebook to Stream Music

March 6th, 2008 by PlayRecord.Net Management

There can not be many people on the who use the internet who have not come across Facebook. Now that it has achieved critcal mass in the world of social networking, it is working to expand its business and capitalise on the massive amounts of traffic that it receives.

The next thing that they are bringing in is looking like its going to be some kind of music streaming service to compete with the like of Apple’s iTunes. This would bring in another revenue stream for the site which at the moment relies on advertising.

This would bring it into more direct competition with social networking behemoth myspace – the original favourite of musicians and bands due to the fact that is has allowed the uploading and streaming of music for a long time now. Most active bands have their own myspace page these days.

Facebook is also directly targeting myspace with the addition of music template pages. These are pretty much a rip off of the myspace idea

The music template Page offers the ability to:

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Maxim Reviews The Black Crowes Album Without Even Giving It A Listen!

February 27th, 2008 by Sean

How is it that in this day and age Maxim can assign a star rating to it–without actually listening the album?

The review of Warpaint–the new album by The Black Crowes in the March issue of Maxim. The writer who has not listened to the album since advance CDs were not made available wrote what appears to be an offensive assessment anyway, quoting “it hasn’t left Chris Robinson and the gang much room for growth.”

The magazine gave the album a two and a half star rating although the writer nor the editor could have heard more than one song (the single “Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution”).

When questioned for an explanation, the magazine described the review as “an educated guess preview.” which is pretty poor.

Black Crowes manager Pete Angelus said, “Maxim’s actions seem to completely lack journalistic integrity and intentionally mislead their readership. When confronted with the fact that they never heard the album they are claiming to ‘review’ in their music section–with a star rating, no less–they attempt to explain that it was an ‘educated guess.’ In an email correspondence, Maxim went on to state: ‘Of course, we always prefer to (sic) hearing music, but sometimes there are big albums that we don’t want to ignore that aren’t available to hear, which is what happened with the Crowes. It’s either an educated guess preview or no coverage at all, so in this case we chose the former.’”

Angelus also stated, “It speaks directly to the lack of the publication’s credibility. In my opinion, it’s a disgrace to the arts, journalism, critics, the publication itself and the public. What’s next–Maxim’s concert reviews of shows they never attended, book reviews of books never read and film reviews of films never seen?”

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The Offspring to release new Album March 2008?

November 30th, 2007 by Sean

According to certain sources Columbia Records has set 26th March 2008 as release date for The Offspring’s follow-up to there 2003 album “Splinter”. However, the band have yet to confirm this information or announce a release date for this.

The band have been working on the new record for over a year with rock producer legend Bob Rock who recorded Metallica, and while Dexter Holland has been posting studio updates on the Offspring official website, it is unknown how far the recording has come along and what its title is going to be. The album is most likely to include the tracksFix You”, “Hammerhead”, “Pass Me By” and “Takes Me Nowhere”. Holland describes them “lots of guitar, energy, lots of energy, and good songs”.

Former Offspring drummer Atom Willard, who left the band last July, was still member of the band during the recording, session musician Josh Freese (The Vandals, A Perfect Circle, Devo, Guns N’ Roses, Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves) recorded the drum tracks. While the band works on the album, former Face to Face and Saves the Day member Pete Parada will be drumming for the tour.

Previously announced, The Offspring will start with a tour of Australia in February and headline Soundwave Festival. This will be the band’s first performance together in three years.

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Gene Simmons Vs Illegal Downloaders

November 21st, 2007 by Sean

KissGene Simmons, From pop-metal band Kiss, is the latest musician to comment about the music industry that has given him a mass amount of success. When pressed by an Billboard interview about the chances of recording new music, he lashed out saying, according to sources.

“The record industry is in such a mess. I called for what it was when college kids first started download music for free — that they were crooks. I told every record label I spoke with that they just lit the fuse to their own bomb that was going to explode from under them and put them on the street.

“There is nothing in me that wants to go in there and do new music. How are you going to deliver it? How are you going to get paid for it if people can just get it for free?

“The record industry doesn’t have a f*cking clue how to make money. It’s only their fault for letting foxes get into the henhouse and then wondering why there’s no eggs or chickens. Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid’s face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning. Those kids are putting 100,000 to a million people out of work.”

Kiss Were an American Rock band who farmed in New York. With their trademark face paints and crazy outfits. Sucess became very big in the mid 70’s with many tours and and intense live preformance ranging from breathing fire, blood spitting and pyrotechnics, Kiss got awarded 24 gold albums to date and in total have sold 95 million albums worldwide.

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Record Industry Cut Out of the Deal

November 1st, 2007 by Tim

The recent release of Radiohead’s latest album ‘In Rainbows’ has left record industry big wigs scratching there heads once again. after prince by-passed the entire distribution system by giving away his new album with the mail on sunday and now with Radioheads ambitious ‘pay what you want’ policy, it begs the question, what’s next?

Radiohead have however been inundated with complaints about the low bit rate of the download, some customers paying over the odds, out of the kindness of their hearts and received the album at 160kbps. The final blow was delivered with rumours that the band will be releasing the album on cd with extra songs! Causing outrage with many fans saying they are being forced to buy the album twice.

Prince’s album release, coinciding perfectly with his 21 date ‘tour’ of one venue in london and the more cynical among us noting the huge amount of dates may have something to do with the pound being particularly strong against the dollar (make a million pounds and you get two million dolars). prince must have made a fortune and not had to share any of it with a record label.

Even though these marketing gimmicks could be seen as a way of battling illegal downloading, ‘In Rainbows’ has been downloaded illegally more times than from the bands site. so other than the band actually giving away their album for free at a high bit rate, there seems little else left they can do and record industry ’suits’ are left wondering what just happened and why didn’t they make any money?

Other Blogs About Radiohead’s In Rainbow:
Mostly Muppet writes:
So yeah, a completely new, professionally-produced album from one of the world’s most innovative and respected bands and you can pay nothing for 10 mp3s (that’s what I did).

We Made This writes:
It’s not often in this media-saturated, webbed up world that someone can pull something off that is (more or less) a complete surprise.

The Parish writes:
Yes, I will be downloading Radiohead’s new project today

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