Category: Music
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The day we clicked: rock photography | The Guardian
The day we clicked: rock photography Pioneers of rock photography talk through their favourite shots via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/20/day-we-clicked-rock-photography Photographing U2 has become more difficult as they have become more well known. The Joshua Tree was taken over a period of three days travelling through the desert. It’s unthinkable for U2 to do that now.…
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HBO: Big Love – A Juniper Creek Christmas
Another holiday soundtrack to fill your home with warmth, a free downloadable playlist from the ficitonal fundamentalist polygamists of HBO’s Big Love. Tracks include: We Three Wives Deck the Compound and, Silent Wife Listen and download your favorite compound classics Link: HBO: Big Love – A Juniper Creek Christmas
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Happy Freakin' Holidays Playlist – WFMU
Happy Freakin’ Holidays Playlist Behold NYC Bloggers Do the Holidays, a tour of goodies in list and link form. The WFMU contribution, courtesy of Otis Fodder, is a playlist packed with 80 tracks that will either make you freak out or keep you from freaking out, depending on your metaboli via WFMU’s Beware of the…
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11 Unintentionally Hilarious Hip-Hop Videos
11 Unintentionally Hilarious Hip-Hop Videos | The Rap Up: Silliness has always been a part of human nature, but it appears to be more fashionable now that we have an assortment of tools to document our goofiness. After all, YouTube and other video sites gave independent directors a chance to showcase their work, prepubescent rappers…
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8BitFM
From Josh Spear, Trendspotting: Do you find that tune from Tetris twisting and turning in your brain all day? Does the music of Metroid make you want to move your feet? Sure you’re probably a video game addict, but there’s nothing wrong with getting those sweet sounds of Super Street Fighter stuck in your head.…
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LA Weekly's LA People 2009
Some of my faves: Ellei Johndro . From LA Weekly: Her Web site and moniker have become synonymous with the sloshed and sweaty shenanigans of L.A.’s cool kids and the underground ragers they frequent, but Shadowscene’s Ellei Johndro is far from just another “club photographer.” Unlike some novice shutterbugs who hopped the snapwagon when lens-toting…
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Pop Band For Sale! – Rednex – Buy Your Own Pop Band!
CLICK NOTE: So if I have this right, we could pay $1.9 million to buy the band Rednex and never hear Cotton Eye Joe again. Sounds reasonable to me. From Pop Band For Sale!: Buying a pop band opens up opportunities to make a hayload of money and peek behind the scenes of an exclusive…
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil: A Canadian Metal Band's Great Feature-Length Doc
From Los Angeles Music – Anvil! The Story of Anvil: A Canadian Metal Band’s Great Feature-Length Doc – page 1: A funny documentary has endlessly quotable lines. An even funnier documentary has endlessly quotable lines delivered in a Canadian accent. Sacha Gervasi’s Anvil! The Story of Anvil, a chronicle of the forgotten Maple Leaf metalers…
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SFGate: Daily Dish : Corgan Fights for Radio Royalties
CLICK NOTE: As with all links to the Daily Dish, it’s really the comments… Smashing Pumpkins star Billy Corgan has testified before Congress in support of a new bill that would require radio stations to pay musicians every time their songs are played. Check it out here.
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Last.fm · Introducing Boffin: Last.fm's music knowledge meets your local mp3 collection
Wouldn’t it be great if you could tune into your local music like you do with Last.fm radio? Check it out here.
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Kutiman, Big Media, and the Future of Creative Entrepreneurship | 43 Folders
the disruptively talented Kutiman, who has made an astounding series of YouTube video remixes that’s lighting up the web and (one imagines) generating a lot of wood amongst our nation’s libidinous entertainment litigators. Check it out here.
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Face-to-face with Michael Jackson’s brother, Marlon: – The Sun News On-line
It’s a scene straight out of a dream or maybe an April Fool Day’s joke. But this is not April. And I am not dreaming. For real, the man sitting face-to-face with me at Barcelos, a fast-food restaurant in Ikeja, eating chicken and chips with me is no other person than the immediate elder brother…
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Spinal Tap: Unwigged and Unplugged at its House of Blues Press Conference – LA Weekly
some of us rock journos were invited to a press conference at the House of Blues at the ungodly hour of 11 a.m. on Monday to listen….shhhh….to Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer announce an upcoming album of new and old Tap material, as well as a spring tour commemorating the 25th anniversary release…
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Los Angeles Music – B-Real of Cypress Hill: Smoking "The Birthday Cake" With a Master
The volume of weed B-Real has smoked over the past 20 years is enough to make you question how the MC has any brain cells left, let alone how he remains coherent. But there he sits, alternately bemoaning and praising the contemporary hip-hop landscape while crumbling fistfuls of sticky O.G. Kush into silken powder. Finally,…
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Last.fm – "Techcrunch are full of sh*t"
On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 album. Check it out here.
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Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?
UPDATE: Apparently not. See the first comment from Alex at Last.FM word is going around that the RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user’s listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. And Last.fm, which is owned by CBS, actually handed the data over to the RIAA Check…
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Spinal Tap Confirms Reunion
Members of the spoof heavy metal band Spinal Tap have confirmed they are to record their first album in nearly 20 years. Check it out here.
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The Day the Music Died: The End of Indie 103.1
Every diehard loyal to Indie 103.1 FM over its improbable five-year run as Los Angeles’ most consistently surprising rock radio station has had similar Eureka moments. This being L.A., these no-way-did-they-just-play-that-song epiphanies usually occurred in the car, when something joyous would erupt from the speakers as if from the stars above. Maybe a Modern Lovers…