Stephen C. Shapiro

I have devoted the past week or so to getting myself familiar with the upcoming Rock Band Network. RBN is still in beta, and not open to the public, but I am already comfortable with the  developing process.  Here’s a sample for a track I authored for Buffalo Gun.

Buffalo Gun – Expert – Rock Band Network from Stephen Shapiro on Vimeo.

I haven’t made a web site in quite a while, but I recently decided to design one for my brother’s band (in which I play drums), Buffalo Gun. I used the Wordpress CMS and created theme from scratch, with the help of WPDesigner.com. The new site also implements many of the helpful widgets provided by Reverb Nation.

We are still putting the finishing touches on The Bad, and finally have a proper place to promote it when it is released.

Alexander got a second music placement on the Real World Cancun. It aired back on July 15, I just finally got around to putting it up here. This time the placement was for for “Sing, All You People” instrumental.

You can see the clip below or download the Quicktime file here. Note: I do not claim ownership or rights to this clip, which belong to MTV Networks/Viacom/Paramount.

This week I finished up mixing and mastering Before You Exit’s debut album A Short Story Long.  The final product is a very strong first release for any band, but especially for a band so young.  The album will be released on August 22 at the band’s Hard Rock Live performance.

Buffalo Gun is still in the tracking process for The Bad.  Drums and bass are complete and guitar is well on the way.  At this point, it’s looking like a September release.

Also, 360ed has released a demo of Conspiracy Code for PC.  This is an educational game I scored with David Burleson of Poverty Branch.

For the past two weeks or so, I’ve been working on some instrumental production music . I’m putting them up on lots of different sites, but you can check them out at my AudioJungle portfolio here: http://audiojungle.net/user/randomgong/portfolio.

Just a quick update of some studio projects I’ve been working on.

I’m still working on an untitled release for Alexander. His first release of 2009, Concrete And Steeples should be out soon. 

I have started tracking for the second Buffalo Gun album, The Bad, which will be another 5-song EP.

I am producing/engineering/programming a score written by Jason Gaskin, singer from Lonely Heroes, for a short film project.  I will link a copy to the video when it’s complete.

Thanks for reading!