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5 songs running through my iPod this week: “I Believe In You” – Sinead O’Conner “Goodbye Blue Sky” – Pink Floyd “Vera” – Pink Floyd “BeatBox” – Art of Noise “Come As You Are” – Nirvana

The power of good online karma: Nine Inch Nails release initial sales figures for ‘Ghosts’ March 13, 2008 11:03 AM By Tjames Madison LiveDaily Contributor Source: Livedaily.com Nine Inch Nails latest album, the sprawling, 36-track instrumental set “Ghosts I-IV,” has garnered more than 750,000 downloads since being released over the web last week. The two-hour [...]

5 songs running through my iPod this week: “13 Ghosts II” – NIN “22 Ghosts III” – NIN “Rez” – Underworld “1234″ – Feist “Burning Flag” – Marilyn Manson

Nine Inch Nails have just released a new 36 track, 4 part instrumental piece called Ghosts I-IV. It is available right now for download from ghosts.nin.com or at Amazon’s MP3 Store for $5. Trent Reznor had this to say about it on nin.com: This music arrived unexpectedly as the result of an experiment. The rules [...]

5 songs running through my iPod this week: “Gave Up” – NIN “The Nobodies” – Marilyn Manson “The Creeps (Fedde Le Grand Remix)” – Camille Jones “11h30″ – Danger “Somewhere Only We Know” – Keane

This is part of a series I’m doing on the best and worst albums covers from one particular artist. Janet Jackson just released her new CD this week, Discipline. With Janet, image is obviously very important. Her visual presentation with every album has been very key to her success whether it’s the album art, tour [...]

I am going be starting a new blog series where I take a look at the best and worst album covers from one particular artist spanning their whole career. I’m going to stick to artists with at least 4 albums credited to them, some current, some old. But first I want to talk about CD [...]

The extremely talented Erykah Badu released her new album Tuesday, New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War). Here is what Entertainment Weekly had to say about it: They say that eyes are the windows to the soul. With Erykah Badu, however, it may be wiser to go directly to the hair. Badu habitually uses it [...]

5 songs running through my iPod this week: “You Know What You Are?” – NIN “Adrift and At Peace” – NIN “Say Hello” – Deep Dish “Get Together” – Madonna “16, Maybe Less” – Calexico and Iron & Wine

A band’s music is of course their number one priority (or at least it should be). But the band logo is an essential part of their cultural identity and absolutely vital if the band intends on reaching a mass audience. A single identifiable logo can deliver huge results in marketing a band and solidifying a [...]

AOL Music has a story on disappearing Album Art in the download culture. When you never have an actual physical product beyond data transfered electronically, there is no need for a CD book or detailed visual art to go with a release. Many music players don’t even show the album art while playing digital files. [...]

5 songs running through my iPod this week: “The Fight Song” – Marilyn Manson “Mayonaise” – Smashing Pumpkins “Harder Better Faster Stronger (Jess & Crabe Remix)” – Daft Punk “Let’s Get Lost” – Chet Baker “Battery” – Metallica

In honor of the Grammy awards tonight (which I am not watching – yawn), check out Cracked.com’s The 7 Most Unforgivable Grammy Award Snubs of All Time. UPDATE: Do we have our number 8? Herbie Hancock? Really?

5 songs running through my iPod this week: “Leaving Hope” – NIN “Let Me Think About It” – Ida Corr vs. Fedde Le Grand “Before Today” – Everything But The Girl “Lost Cause” – Beck “Flashdance (Guetta & Garraud Remix)” – Deep Dish

5 songs running through my iPod this week: “New Years Day” – U2 “Eye Love U But Eye Don’t Trust U Anymore” – Prince “NWO” – Ministry “The Frail” – NIN “Hung Up (Extended Mix)” – Madonna

5 songs running through my iPod this week: “Steady Rollin’” – Two Gallants “Breathe Me” – Sia “Irresponsible Hate Anthem” – Marilyn Manson “These Guys Are From England…” – Negativland “My Friends” – Johnny Depp and HBC from Sweeney Todd

I used to love music videos. I grew up with MTV back when it actually was MUSIC television and not a 24/7 parade of dysfunctional “reality” tv nonsense. At least it was last time I checked MTV, which was a long time ago because I gave up. I gave up on MTV. Reality-crap TV. The [...]