TAG: music
The Art of Indie Music in Commericals
New York comedian Aziz Ansari breaks down the advertising music licensing business.
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"You know Baby Got Back that anthemic early 90’s tribute to a woman’s behind? Well Sir Mix-A-Lot didnt have shit on this Biblically minded remake."
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"In a world where many people get their music for free, we wanted to create a site where bands we loved could put their music out there for free AND get paid for it."
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Gold at the end of the rainbow
"What I failed to realize when the news hit was, regardless of how much coin the band makes from the actual sales, they’ve just built a most impressive consumer database."
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Chris Rock On The Music Business
"If the musician is a good businessman, he’s a shitty musician . . . Which is why something resembling a record company is going to be necessary in the future. Musicians make the music, someone needs to sell it."
Trent Reznor and Saul Williams Discuss Their New Collaboration, Mourn OiNK
"But those days are gone. Because, mainly, that infrastructure is broken at the moment. How long before [record companies] are irrelevant? Who knows? They seem to be doing everything they can to make sure that happens as quickly as possible."
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Radiohead Results: 38% Forked Over $6 Average
"Paying downloaders forked over an average of $6, with U.S. consumers paying almost twice as much ($8.05) as those from other countries ($4.64)."
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Twin Musical Tesla Coils playing Mario Bros
"Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI."
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Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin
"San Francisco indie band The Society of Rockets, for example, plans to release its next album strictly on vinyl and as MP3 files."
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If the RIAA Wins, You Really Lose!
"There is no legal difference between putting a song in my P2P Network shared folder or in my public FTP folder or in my "documents" folder."
Oink founder: We're just like Google
"If Google directed someone to a site they can illegally download music they are doing the same as what I have been accused of. I am not making any Oink users break the law. People don’t pay to use the site.�
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Very cool last.fm visualizations.
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DEFENDING THE PIG - OINK CROAKS
"Oink didn’t offer solutions; it highlighted the problems of over-priced, over-controlled music elsewhere. Oink was an online paradise for music fans." - DJ Rupture
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"That economic model is not quite over - there is clearly still money to be made selling CDs - but it is on its way out and from a strategic point of view bands choosing to go down that road close the door on a much larger, longer-term opportunity. "
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"If you have pre-ordered or intend to order the download version of Radiohead's new album In Rainbows and are curious to know what price others chose, take part in the survey."
Four reasons why the RIAA won a jury verdict of $220,000
"The Recording Industry Association of American got a chance on Thursday to show everyone just how heavy and intimidating the legal club of copyright law can be."
the songs I sing to my son as reviewed by an anonymous music critic
"As the only cover in this artist’s portfolio, Wheels [on the bus] pays homage to the previous generation and all that their songs made possible."
Armchair Economists, Please Stay Home
"What, pray tell, are the "real products" that will support those industries? Very few bands can make a living off of touring and T-shirts. Oh, that's it, advertising. I bet Arrington listens to a lot of commercial radio..."
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Did "Saturday Night Live" Rip Off Aphex Twin?
"NBC didn't actually need permission to use the song for "ephemeral use," and won't, until they plan to air the show again . . . the video remains yanked from all official NBC sites until, presumably, some clearance agreement is made."
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Radiohead's new album: pay what you want
"There’s no doubt that thousands of people will hand over the price of a Sherbet Dip for the download. Presumably though, Radiohead’s argument runs that those people would have obtained the album through file sharing websites."
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"This false notion that ringtones are something in and of themselves is an anachronism, an artifact dating back to the time when mobile phones existed in their own ecosystem, wholly separate from the PC or the Internet."
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Not sure about the video, but it's a great song.
"Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given a 6.8 out of 10 rating in an review published Monday on Pitchfork Media, a well-known music-criticism website."
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"Feist performs 1234 on Letterman, August 27 2007. Also featuring members of Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, The National, Grizzly Bear, and Mates of State."
Proper comparison points for Kanye West, Michael Jackson, 50 Cent, and Norman Mailer
"Meanwhile, who is really the new Michael Jackson? The iPhone of course."
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"Philandering dwarves? Cherry pie allergies? Spatula-wielding neighbours? Trapped In The Closet has baffled and delighted its cult following. Chuck Klosterman salutes R Kelly's hip-hopera"
"In a way this bundle that constitutes mainstream music begins to establish a model that could be the future of recorded music  that the recordings are the “loss leaders� for everything else."
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"Today that same market is telling rappers to please shut up. While music-industry sales have plummeted, no genre has fallen harder than rap."
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Lawsuit: Music Publishers v. YouTube Doesn't Solve the Problem
"If people don’t know what rights they need to obtain and if there's no easy way to obtain them even if they do know, exactly what do rights-holders expect?"
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"a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture"
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"This is a great music video done in pixelization style- except that the pixels are dice. The song is Fuyija Miyagi's Ankle Injury."
"In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview."
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brian eno and music for airports- the inspiration
"Brian Eno talks about what inspired him to create Music for Airports, the album that gave birth to the ambient movement"
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"One of my favorite songs, and another cracking ad from Nike. Is it just me, or are Wieden & Kennedy on a roll at the moment?"
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Sprint Takes Lead as 1st Sponsor of File-Sharing Song
"Sprint has signed on as the first company to underwrite a song to be distributed on file-sharing networks, agreeing to embed its logo on copies of tracks from Atlantic Records hip-hop artist Plies, sources told The Post."
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"1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines at practice! This is not the final routine, and definitely not a punishment! just a teaser."
"I take this time to contemplate how weird it is that, 20 years after 'Darling Nikki,' Prince is the one with the moral hang-ups, and Tipper is the one with the pothead son."
"Fopp's gone bankrupt. Prince is bypassing the stores completely to give away his new CD. But Adam Webb finds that the future of the record shop might not be as gloomy as the past week's headlines suggest"
"Faced with shrinking profits, record labels are touting a new approach"
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Prince Points the Way to a Brighter Future for Music
Prince gave away his new CD with Sunday's Daily Mail. "Part of the problem, according to retailers, is that Prince's move helped solidify a growing perception on the part of consumers that music is free."
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The music industry nobs have finally figured out what we're doing
Fake Steve Jobs: "The music companies are in a dying business, and they know it. Sure, they act all cool because they hang around with rock stars. But beneath all the glamour these guys are actually operating two very low-tech businesses."
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Jane Siberry's "you decide what feels right" pricing
"The Canadian folk-pop singer Jane Siberry has a clever system: she has a “pay what you can� policy with her downloadable songs, so fans can download them free  but her site also shows the average price her customers have paid for each track."
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"Year Zero" project = "the way a viral campaign should be run"
"While the major labels continue to try and hold onto the past, Reznor’s attitude and approach is a glimpse of the future. Instead of looking at his album as the finish line, he’s using it as part of a bigger, all-encompassing experience for fans."
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Who really said it?
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"Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out."
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Arcade Fire's Neon Bible Debuts at #2
"The Arcade Fire's second album, Neon Bible, claimed the No. 2 spot on the U.S. Billboard 200 charts this week, stomping all over new LPs from Daughtry, Relient K and Robin Thicke."
Where Daft Punk got their samples from
"Here's where the samples on some of my favourite Daft Punk tracks came from. It's all legit, paid in full, above board. Still strange to hear, though."
Hollywood to immortalise pop frauds
Universal is making a Milli Vanilli movie. Thank goodness.
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Jay-Z to help relaunch Cherry Coke
"Jay-Z is set to help relaunch Cherry Coke. The rapper's Rocawear firm will design the new can, and the product's TV commercials."
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Patrons or Pirates: the music industry has to choose
What if the music industry restructured itself to more resemble the arts?
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"Are our brains wired for sound? One professor has provocative theories, and they started with Blue Oyster Cult."
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"Tourfilter sends you email when your favorite bands come to town."
"Weird Al" Yankovic's new music video, from the album "Straight Outta Lynwood"
Blend of old, new media launched OK Go
The story behind the success of OK Go's crazy treadmill video.
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The indie music site that everyone loves to hate.
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Fimiculous.com: "Despite the odds, this was a pretty good year in music. I've got 21 albums to prove it:"
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"Soundbombs are New-Media-Accessories. Each one a lowtech object for interactive transmission. An integrated soundmodul makes it possible to record any given sound and then activate it through a motiondetector."
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Music Is The Best, October, 2006
Ian Rogers gives his favorite albums of the year thus far.
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Pitchfork Reviews Jet's Shine On
This is the most incredible review for an album I've ever seen.
"Fandom has become a mechanized process of blogging, programming playlists, shooting and distributing videos, file-sharing, and even remixing tracks. Beck’s sticker cover is just one way that he has acknowledged this shift."
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Times Square Makes Everyone Feel Famous
"The man with the cameraphone is going to capture your street performance whether you like it or not."
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"The greatest trick Apple pulled was to build a market where lock-in is mandated, but convince the world that this was something they did reluctantly, at the behest of the villainous recording industry."
"Just refer to the Catbirdseat Handy Music-Blogger 'Best Of 2006' List Cheat Sheet, and you can quickly and easily have all your favorites categorized for you, and you don't even have to think about it! "
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Danger Mouse, Banksy Burn Paris
"Danger Mouse's management confirms he's the "DM" behind the pranksta remixes of Paris Hilton's new album."
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'Guerrilla artist' replaces heiress's CDs in shops with doctored versions
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Banksy creates 500 of his own remixed version of Paris's new CD and drop lifts it at music stores around the UK.
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How a tiny web outfit became the most influential tastemaker on the music scene.
Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last
"If you follow the leads, this Everest of electric-guitar virtuosity, like so many other online artifacts, turns out to be a portal into a worldwide microculture."
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"I would say that most Americans qualify as expert music listeners. We have the cognitive capacity to detect wrong notes, to find music we enjoy . . . an activity that involves a process of meter extraction so complicated that most computers cannot do it"
Looking back on 25 years of MTV, "More and more, it feels as if there is no longer such a thing as mass culture. MTV, for good or bad, still reassures me that there is."
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Country Snoop Dogg Dogg Gin And Juice
Snoop Dogg listens and sings along to a country version of Gin and Juice that I first saw online. This is incredibly meta in some kind of bizarre way I can't figure out right now.
Lily Allen, Britainâ s New Pop Star, Has Cheek, and Bite, to Spare
"She symbolizes a new blogging-age, middle-class girl: cockily ambitious, skeptical yet enthusiastic, technically savvy, musically open, obsessed with public expression and ready to fight back."
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MySpace to songwriters: sell more shirts
"It's all very much in keeping with the new feudal economics of "Web 2.0": the serfs must be grateful for the hospitality of the proprietor. . . . plenty of people appear to be profiting from digital music - except the people who create it."
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Notes on "Sweet Child O' Mine," as Delivered to Axl Rose by His Editor.
"Hi Axl, Just got your manuscript and demo for the song "Sweet Child O' (sic) Mine." I think we need to talk."
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Prince meets the Muppets and sings about Starfish and Coffe.
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As Alan McGee books a made-up band, Dave Simpson looks at the science of creating a buzz
Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop
"This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969."
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Officials in Sydney are going to pipe Barry Manilow music into a park "in an attempt to rid streets and car parks of hooligans." Awesome.
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Winners take all in rockonomics
As Madonna fans in the UK know to their cost, tickets for rock and pop concerts keep getting more expensive.
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An analysis of 8468 reviews on Pitchforkmedia.com
Stastical breakdown of Pitchfork reviews in search of tendencies.
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A really interesting New Yorker article about Muzak and its attempts to rebrand itself from an elevator music to an audio branding company.
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The Multitasking or Music-Tasking Generation?
"At it's best, familiar music just induces a pleasant and brain-restful expectancy. Music primes the brain with for new associations, intuitive thinking, and even language."
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A fairly in-depth look at why Bose is not as good as everyone thinks.
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Klosterman's April Fool's review of Chinese Democracy
My favorite line: "Several songs make thinly veiled references to the architect who designed Rose's backyard topiary garden, a move that may confuse casual listeners."
Sleeve designed by Peter Saville v.1.3.13
Some great record cover design by Peter Saville.
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"An average day at NYC indie record store Other Music. Produced by Human Giant for the 2006 PLUG Awards." Starring Aziz Ansari.
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Pandora and Last.fm: Nature vs. Nurture in Music Recommenders
An in-depth comparison of Pandora and Last.fm.
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'Born Slippy was a greyhound we bet on'
"Every song has a story behind it. Every songwriter has their own way of working. We asked 12 artists, from a legendary lyricist to a freelance hit-making team, how they created one of their classic tracks "
He talks about touring, whistling and a bunch of other stuff.
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Study Probes the Mystery of Hit Songs
"Popular songs became more popular and unpopular songs became less popular when individuals influenced one another."
Could we chart the branches and connections of 100 years of music using the London Underground map? Dorian Lynskey explains how a box of coloured crayons and lot of swearing helped.
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Aggregation and analysis of 75 "Best Albums of 2005" lists from around the world
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Live Nation Inc. "is paying roughly $3 million for an estimated 6 percent stake in the band's box office, licensing, publishing, merchandise and CD revenue for its recently released album and its next album."
Dos and Don'ts for Beating the iPod (and iTunes)
Anil Dash offers some tips for prospective iPod competitors.
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"Instead of auguring a new day for SNL, maybe it points up what's missing in mainstream rapâ€â€an awareness that it's OK to be goofy. Who needs Biz Markie and Tone-Loc?"
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Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2005
No matter how obnoxious Pitchfork may be, and they are pretty much unrivaled in that category, their year-ed best of list is always fantastic.
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Baskerville Old Face meets Notorious B.I.G.
A typography music video. It seems so appropriate considering the man was best known for his words.
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Stylus Magazine's Top 50 Singles of 2005
Includes some of my guiltiest pleasures of 2005.
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The Right Price for Digital Music
Record companies want to raise prices, is the answer a real-time market where price increasess or decreases based on demand?
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Does rivalry rewire the rapping web?
Social networks of rappers differ from all other human networks.
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How to make a hip end of the year best albums list
"If you don't plan on naming a couple of Import albums that don't come out in this country until the Spring of next year then stop reading right now and get the fuck out of my blog."
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"He sends letters to 400 tuba players around the country and asks if they would like to be part of a Christmas concert. Three hundred say 'yes.' Woops. Better find a venue."
2005's Largehearted Favorite Albums
Leargehearted Boy's top eleven albums of the year with lots of good MP3s to download. Yum yum.
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52 of the top MP3s of the year.
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Amazon.com Music: Best of 2005
The Top 100 Editor's Picks from Amazon.com. It's a good list every year.
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The Top 40 Bands in America Today - 2005 Edition
"I emailed over 40 "music/MP3 bloggers" (since we are our own genre now) and asked them to send me a list, ranked 1-10, of the 10 best American bands that they've seen or heard in the last year."
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Actually, this is Largehearted Boy's top 10 with free MP3s.
Public Enemy Takes It to the Net
Public Enemy is alive and kicking both on the net and off.
Battle for the Soul of the MP3 Phone
"Consumers want an iPod phone that will play any song, anytime, anywhere. Just four little problems: the cell carriers, the record labels, the handset makers, and Apple itself. The inside story of why the ROKR went wrong."
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Mycroft search plugin for The Hype Machine
Nice easy way to search for MP3s straight from Firefox.
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Other Places Jimmy Buffett Wasted Away.
"Slipperynippleberg"
The World's Most Dangerous Geek : News
"Justin Frankel, the man who popularized file-sharing, has even bigger plans"
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How Steve Jobs snookered the entire cell phone industry
The Theory: Steve Jobs used Motorola to get a deal with Cingular with the eventual plan of an iPod phone.
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Why we're releasing our latest album for free on the Internet
Harvey Danger is giving their latest album, Little by little . . . away for free. No catch. They're hoping it will get the music to the people. They are right.
"I see the entire world as a market. To fill this niche I present you Indie Fantasy League. Um, I mean, capitalism sucks."
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Methods Other Than Song by Which One Can Be Killed Softly.
McSweeney's: "Chinchilla attack"
Honey, he shrunk the iPod. How Jobs and his team of Apple innovators created this season's must-have gadget
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Content Stripped Bare: Death of design; reign of content?
"Design, too, is stripped bare. With content playing first fiddle to the world of digital applications, design (or the kind of design that encompasses album art, book jackets, editorial illustrations, and even websites) becomes less and less important."
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Dan Dickinson recorded a song Ted Leo had written the morning of the South Street Seaport show
Five Mistakes Band Label Sites Make
43 Folders: "Admittedly, this is well off our usual fare, but please indulge me in a public service message on behalf of music fans across the Internetsâ€â€five mistakes that band and label sites make (and a few tips on how to fix them)."
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Seven Band Names That Would Be Impossible to Book.
McSweeney's: "Canceled Due to Fire"
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"Klosterman sat down with SPIN.com to talk about New York, the state of rock criticism, and -- what else -- Foghat."
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A list of good (and bad) musicians' websites
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When the Decemberists' instruments were stolen, their fans clubbed together to buy them some more. How does a band inspire such loyalty?
Coldplay X&Y Album Art Generator
You type your words and it encodes it into Coldplay X&Y album art
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10 Worthwhile Albums You Might Have Missed This Year
Pitchforkmedia.com: "a few albums we've all really enjoyed this year, but which-- whether a result of a technicality, bad timing, or just bad luck-- have managed to elude our Best New Music section."
KCRW to Podcast Morning Becomes Eclectic
" Beginning Thursday, July 21, Los Angeles based public radio station KCRW (89.9 FM and KCRW.com) will offer podcasts of live sessions performed by unsigned and independent artists on its signature music show, Morning Becomes Eclectic hosted by Nic Harcou
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'This is what real British rap looks like'
No longer the poor relative of its American cousin, UK hip-hop has finally established itself as the voice of the nation's youth, says Mike Skinner.
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Indie-rock hero Frank Black goes one-on-one with his literary hero, the indomitable Ray Bradbury.
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These are the AOL video clips from the Live 8 concert series from July 2nd.
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BusinessWeek looks at Cornerstone and other so-called "experiential" brands marketing to the hip
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How did Mad Hot Ballroom survive the copyright cartel?
"Answer: by limiting music that played in classrooms, haggling over clearance fees, and cutting out a scene."
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The Star Maker of the Semipopular
NYTimes profile of Nic Harcourt, DJ of KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic
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Face-to-face with Brian Eno, the brainiest person in pop
Brian Eno, aka the brainiest person in pop, tells Alexis Petridis why his attempts to oust the prime minster were destined to fail
"A pop star salutes skillful shoppers, and the act of buying becomes a commodity itself."
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The 30 albums that Pitchfork has given a perfect 10.0 to
TINY MUSIC MAKERS: Pt 1: The 'Intel Inside' chimes
Ever wonder where things like the Intel, Microsoft and THX sound come from? Well, check out this series of articles.
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Adrian Shaughnessy: Decoding Coldplay’s X&Y
Design Observer examines the cover art of Coldplay's new album X&Y
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Yoko Ono has long been defined by her status first as John Lennon's wife and then his widow. But now, at 72, she says she is brimming with a newfound love for life - kinda thing
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A great list of free music in New York City this summer
How technology has transformed the sound of music.
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The White Stripes Change Their Spots
NYTimes: "On June 7, the White Stripes return with a thrilling new album, "Get Behind Me Satan" (Third Man/V2/BMG), that goes a long way toward dismantling the band's goofy mythology."
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Little-Known Bands Get Lift Through Word-of-Blog
NYTimes: "Only a handful of music blogs, with names like Fluxblog, Stereogum and Largehearted Boy, have any influence, but even those still have a long way to go to fundamentally alter the landscape of the music industry."
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Sasha Frere-Jones: "I will not write about any piece of music unless I have unlimited access to a portable version of it, renderered in either the CD, MP3 or vinyl format."
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A great visualization of albums that use samples and what they sample.
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Reggaeton, grime, baile funk, and the globalization of hip-hop.
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"Irving Plaza: Seeing Malkmus? Recognize that no matter when you get there, you'll always be watching from under that stupid overhang."
10 Worst Album Covers of All Time
They are bad.
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The Cash Machine Is Blue: why Wilco is Worldchanging
WorldChanging: "Good business comes from a great personal ethic, and I think Wilco exemplify the true artist's philosophy in this crazy, confusing world."
Sidney Morning Herald: "An outsider, not even a fan of today's music, Steve had done the almost unthinkable: he had changed the face of a second industry."
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Bob Dylan was never the same after it; neither was his audience. And it made a young Frank Zappa want to quit the music business. Greil Marcus on how Like a Rolling Stone rocked the world
Look, Nobody Cares That You're a DJ
"You know who you are. Standing behind that deck of turntables, holding one headphone to your ear, being pretentious and aloof as you play with knobs and shuffle through records."
Welcome to the real David Gensler and what he really thinks about everything. Co-Founder and President of the KDU and considered by many to be the top youth culture strategist in the world,
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A collection of MP3 blogs organized by genre and alphabetically
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Two rock bands that want to be heard. (The Mountain Goats and The Hold Steady)
Can any self-respecting thirtysomething music fan turn their back on a record collection dominated by hip bands such as Muse and Interpol and revert to their first love - the Moody Blues, ELO, Queen, Toto and, yes, even Phil Collins?
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Wired: "Miller stopped by the Wired News office for a chat about his book, his new album and his thoughts on sampling culture and copyright."
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They're known as firework careers: bands whose popularity rockets, flares - and dies all too quickly. Dorian Lynskey reports on a worrying trend and looks at what a new band can expect
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There are two buttons my screenless iPod shuffle really needs: Next Track and More Like This.
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MP3s gathered from blogs across the web.
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Rare mixes, mastermixes, remixes, bootlegs and pirate radio from the mid-80s converted to MP3.
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Electronic, kind of in a Postal Service'y/Notwist sort of way.
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Why can't indie bands stay on the soundtrack -- and off the stage -- of trendy TV teen shows?
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The executives at Epic won't release her new album, but they may be right not to.
Lots o' Andrew Bird Live Shows
Largehearted Boy Daily Downloads that includes eight Andrew Bird shows
NIN's Trent Reznor releases song as GarageBand file
Boing Boing: "Trent Reznor is offering a complete mix of a song from the forthcoming Nine Inch Nails album as a Garageband 2.0 file. "
You are what's on your playlist
Experts say digital music library reflects listener's personality
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Andrew Bird's Current Favorites
Salon.com: "Audiofile reader favorite Andrew Bird's list of current listening favorites"
Firefox search plugin for Audioscrobbler
Now you can search Audioscrobbler from the search bar in Firefox
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New rivals take aim at the champ
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Plurn is an online music community where you can build and share playlists and musical tastes quickly and easily with a very wide audience.
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MP3 blogs are growing in popularity, attracting thousands of users daily. But while bloggers see their relationship with the industry as one of cooperation, it is a legally grey area. Chris Alden reports
MusicPublisher is an utility to share your iPod, or any similar music device, and make them directly available to iTunes.
Andrew Bird: Pitchfork Artist List
Andrew Bird: "These are 10 songs or albums that transcend style and still get through to me"
Bush bares soul with 'iPod One'
On his iPod: "No black artists, no gay artists, no world music, only one woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no Beatles."
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Don't like it as much as Sea Change. "Girl" is amazing. It very much seems like Beck trying to be Beck . . . if you know what I mean.
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An amazing interactive table that can play CDs without taking them out of the case
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Possible Follow-up Songs for One-Hit Wonders
"Whoomp! There It Continues to Be"
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David Byrne launches internet radio station
Boing Boing: "There's value in being exposed to things you didn't know you want. When you walk down the street, you have experiences that are unplanned and accidental that may expose you to new ideas, new things... it isn't just a matter of running an err
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Illegal file-sharers under attack
Economist: The entertainment industry has taken its battle against illegal downloading to America’s Supreme Court. But attacking the technology behind file-sharing could stifle innovation without tackling the industry’s long-term problems
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Implausible Claims Made by Vanilla Ice in His 1990 No. 1 Hit "Ice Ice Baby."
"I go crazy when I hear a cymbal and a high hat."
Index: "Legendary musician, producer, and artist Brian Eno would much rather talk about urbanism, new computer applications, or emergence theory than something as pedestrian as EQ levels or his own brilliant musical history."
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Salon: "Sam Prekop, whose new record, "Who's Your New Professor?" was released last week, is the lead singer of the Sea and Cake. Here's a list of some of his current favorite music."
Sony MDR-G56V Street Style Headphones with In-line Volume Control
Good cheap headphones, very comfortable
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Pez to dispense MP3s instead of candy
They're making Pez MP3 players. A possible iPod killer?
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MP3s from Ryan Adams' lost Destroyer Sessions
Just another urban legend: The final interview with Ol' Dirty Bastard
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Music and Video Downloading Moves Beyond P2P
Pew: "About 36 million Americansâ€â€or 27% of internet usersâ€â€say they download either music or video files and about half of them have found ways outside of traditional peer-to-peer networks or paid online services to swap their files"
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"Sigla magazine was launched in March 2004 as an online magazine that isn’t singularly about arts or politics, photography or creative writing; it’s about all of those things - and lots of other stuff as well."
Rockers Flex BitTorrent's Muscle
The Decemberists are releasing their new video via BitTorrent
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A Night Out With: Keren Ann: Shore Leave in Home Port
NYTimes: "Places where you can get lost, where there are people everywhere but you're used to isolation, to being on your own, they suit people like me."
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So You'd Like to... See the Mountain Goats' list of Music You Should Hear
A guide by Amazon.com Music Store, John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats
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Warner Brothers Sponsors Podcaster
ClickZ: "The company will sponsor podcasts of the Eric Rice Show and provide exclusive audio content from one of its bands."
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Her semi-new album Extraordinary Machine album available for free download at 192kbps
The iTunes $.99 Breakdown: Will Online Music Stores Ever Make Money?
Some speculative number crunching over just how much money online music stores really make
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Suddenly on the Internet: A flood of unreleased bootlegs sung by a goddess. What gives?
Acoustic folk with a hint of rock.
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'I've literally just heard the 500th Strokes clone'
Guardian Unlimited: "Beck talks to Dan Glaister about his rental car, bathrooms and the struggle to be original"
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In the first of an occasional series in which the greatest recording artists reveal their favourite records, Tom Waits writes about his 20 most cherished albums of all time.
Rock's Oldest Joke: Yelling 'Freebird!' In a Crowded Theater
It's a Request, a Rebuke, A Cry From the Heart, A Tribute to Skynard