Music Category

My Former Boss

In: Humor, Music

I have a former boss, whom I will not name, who has a certain attitude toward the digital world that is best exemplified by this photo. Enjoy: Related posts: No related posts.

Vampire Weekend – Giveing Up The Gun

In: Music

Related posts: No related posts.

Lissie – Pursuit of Happiness

In: Music

Related posts: Kid Cudi (ft. MGMT) – Pursuit of Happiness

Read the full article here. Yesterday Lady Gaga hit 11 million followers on her Facebook page (congratulations, number 11,000,001, you get a two-minute shopping cart dash round her wardrobe.) Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, as she is known to her Mom and Dad, is not the first artist who uses social media and the Internet to [...]

If only they were talking about his music…

In: Music

Read the original article here. Prince’s Nonsense If only they were talking about his music. I haven’t seen an artist this out of touch since Metallica sued Napster. And even though the heavy metal foursome has been doing mea culpas for years, giving away music, innovating online, they’ve never been able to erase the taint [...]

Three things are actually “completely over”

In: Music

Printed newspapers Getting big advances for musical releases CDs Related posts: Prince says the internet is “completely over” Prince Claims Internet Is Dead, Lady Gaga Disproves It

Prince says the internet is “completely over”

In: Music

Here is an excerpt where Prince elaborates on how he’s releasing his music through printed newspapers instead of the internet. Some could argue that printed newspapers are “completely over” and have been for years, but I guess he doesn’t see it that way: [Prince] explains that he decided the album will be released in CD [...]

Kid Cudi (ft. MGMT) – Pursuit of Happiness

In: Music

Related posts: Samnation’s Top 11 Songs of 2009 MGMT – Electric Feel

Goldfrapp – Alive

In: Music

Related posts: Samnation’s Top 11 Songs of 2009 Passion Pit – The Reeling

120 Minutes Archive

In: Music

Back in the ’80s, way before you could watch anything any time you wanted, there was a whole world of “underground” music that you never heard on the radio or on MTV, this was also the time when MTV actually played music. But for 2 hours a week, late at night on Sunday, you could [...]

Underworld – Scribble

In: Music

Related posts: Underworld – Born Slippy (Live) Passion Pit – The Reeling

Eyes Without A Face

In: Music

Related posts: No related posts.

What is BitTorrent?

In: Music, Tech

BitTorrent is controversial. Some love it, some hate it, some go to great lengths to try and stop. Regardless of how you feel about it, there is no question that BitTorrent/P2P filesharing is not going anywhere anytime soon. I often get asked “What is BitTorrent?” and I found this FAQ that does a great job [...]

Pulp – Common People

In: Music

Related posts: Muse – Uprising

Bieber!

In: Humor, Music

Girl, I wanna dance with you in a bowling alley. And hey girl, this is my old uncle Luda who likes to hang with teenagers. Related posts: Bieber vs. Raaaaaaaandy!

By John Jurgensen at Speakeasy/WSJ Blog Last year, a Los Angeleno named Scott Addison Clay was invited into Prince’s inner sanctum –literally. Clay recalls the pop singer leading him through “the catacombs of his insanely gargantuan basement.” The tour led into a cavernous room, where a man sat at a drum set. A woman picked [...]

Massive Attack – Splitting The Atom

In: Music

Massive Attack-Splitting the Atom-directed by Edouard Salier from edouard salier on Vimeo. Related posts: No related posts.

Record Labels: Change or Die

In: Music

By Adam Frucci, Read it at Gizmodo.com It’s a lousy time to be a record label. Profits are tanking, bands are angry—OK Go just ditched EMI—and YouTube and BitTorrent changed the game. Still, some labels are transforming themselves to help musicians in the digital age. “Change or Die” may sound like hyperbole, or an idle [...]

By Tim Quirk from TooMuchJoy.com I got something in the mail last week I’d been wanting for years: a Too Much Joy royalty statement from Warner Brothers that finally included our digital earnings. Though our catalog has been out of print physically since the late-1990s, the three albums we released on Giant/WB have been available [...]

Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What?

In: Music

Aritsts prefer apps over itunes LP. I’m not surprised. I gotta say when I first saw itunes LP last summer I was underwhelmed and didn’t see how that was going to change anything. – S By Paul Bonanos Mar. 9, 2010 at gigaom.com When it was first unveiled, Apple’s new iTunes LP format -– codenamed [...]