Thesixtyone is a "music discovery game" created by two students who quit their jobs to build a site that helps musicians and fans discover each other. Fans use Digg-style thumbs-up to rate the music that's uploaded, but the game is that each rating costs you points, and you get more points if you rate up song that lots of other people rate up too.
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
Last.fm Addon - Animated Avatars of Your Favorite Artists
Last.fm addon (pict.fm) creates avatars with your favorite artists and bands. Your last.fm nickname is only required.
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23 songs that should never be covered again
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it can go way too far. The Onion AV club examines a list of songs that have been beaten like a dead horse.
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The Man Who Shot Pantera's “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott
"The Revenge of Crazy Nate": Back home in Marysville, Ohio, people knew Nathan Gale as a big, weird guy who couldn’t hold down a job and loved Pantera. No one paid much attention to him, until the night last December when he climbed onstage and shot “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott in the head.
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Top Ten Career Turn-Arounds in Rock Music
Just when everyone had these artists pigeonholed, they pulled a career 180 that surprised just about everybody.
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All I Want for Christmas Is Not To Hear That Damn Song
A little advice: When friends and relatives come visiting around Christmas, don't haul out those old CDs with Madonna's rendition of "Santa Baby" or Barbra Streisand's "Jingle Bells?" And by all means, avoid "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer."
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NIИ: McDonald's Steals Artwork from Nine Inch Nails
A side-by-side comparison of art found at a UK McDonald's and screenshots from a teaser trailer of "The Fragile".
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Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of 2007
Jay-Z triumphed, and Rihanna offered us shelter under her umbrella, while Springsteen, Bright Eyes and Arcade Fire reported on the storm
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MTV: 2007 - The Year The Music Industry Broke
In the first installment of our three-part series on the future of music, we take a look back at what went wrong and when.
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The 15 Worst Christmas Songs Ever Created
Holiday music, you either love it or hate it ... unless it is one of these 15 awful songs which everyone hates. These are 15 terrible terrible Christmas songs that are painful to listen to.
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2007: The Music Industry by the Numbers
If you go by the numbers (or, really, any other indicator), 2007 was the worst 12-month period the music industry has ever seen. Yes, it was bad times all around ... so bad, in fact, that no mere essay could encapsulate it all...
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Congress considers bill to make radio "pay to play"
While radio does pay a fee to songwriters, it pays no performance rights fee, in contrast to just about every other developed country on the planet. The broadcasters argue that they are providing free advertising to musicians, who then make money from touring and record sales.
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Pirate Bay Use Peer Power to Take Back the Grammys
The Pirate Bay is encouraging its users to vote for Familjen, an independent artists who is nominated for a Swedish Grammy. They are using the power of peers to break with the tradition of music cartels that reward their own artists, and to annoy the IFPI of course.
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Wired Interview with Trent Reznor
"And so, a couple years ago I kind of realized that music essentially is free now. I'd prefer if it wasn't. But it is. And being on the other side of that argument is a losing battle."
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MUST LISTEN: A guy SCANS old records to listen to them!
Really cool idea! This guy scans his old records to see if he can extract audio data from the scanned images! With downloadable MP3's of what he found.
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Cute Girls Sing Awesome Song About Digg
"And when I see those stories about Senator Ron Paul, I don't even RTFA; I just digg them all!" Crash The Super Bowl Semi-Finalist Kina Grannis sings a hilarious song about Digg--check out the video! (Lyrics included.)
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"Gotta Digg" The official Digg song! Super Bowl Finalist
So one of my friends, Kina Grannis, made a song about Digg and its really good! She's one of the top 10 finalists competing for a chance to be signed by Interscope Records and have her music video be played during the Super Bowl! You can watch the video here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoHzuLY1lcM. Vote for her at www.crashthesuperbowl.com
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Most Hilarious Guitar Design Ever
Here's Stig Pedersen from Denmark's D-A-D (formerly known as Disneyland After Dark but don't let the Walt Disney Corporation hear you calling them that else their lawyer-dialling fingers get twitchy) wielding another one of his barking mad two-string basses. Absolute genius!
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Jazz Great, Oscar Peterson Dies
One of the word's most famous and talented jazz pianists, Oscar Peterson, has died at the age of 82. He died due to kidney failure on December 23rd. In his career he recorded more than 200 albums and worked with the biggest names in jazz, from Dizzy Gillespie to Count Basie.
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Radiohead's "In Rainbows" NYTimes #1 Album of 2007
While Radiohead’s discontinued pay-what-you-want proposition for downloading its new album made a great music-business story, the more lasting news is that “In Rainbows” — in either its one-disc or two-disc configurations — needs no gimmicks.
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3 down, 1 to go: Warner Music Group drops DRM
Warner is making all of its music available as MP3 files for sale at Amazon's music store.
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Rolling Stone Readers' Twenty-Five Favorite Videos of 2007
From NIN's surveillance footage to Justice's parade of animated Tees to Mute Math's backwards feat, watch some of the year's best clips.
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Why Today's Music Sounds Like Shit
Over the past decade and a half, a revolution in recording technology has changed the way albums are produced, mixed and mastered — almost always for the worse. Producers and engineers call this "the loudness war," and it has changed the way almost every new pop and rock album sounds...
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RIAA suing citizen for copying legally purchased CDs to PC
"Ira Schwartz, the industry's lawyer in the case, is arguing that MP3 files created on his [Jeffrey Howell's] computer from legally purchased CDs are indeed "unauthorized copies," and while we've no idea what will become of all this, we suppose you should go on and wipe those personal copies before you too end up in handcuffs."
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RIAA not suing over CD ripping
Okay, so we've done some digging into the RIAA's lawsuit against Jeffery Howell, in which the industry is claiming that ripped MP3s are "unauthorized copies," and it turns out that Jeffery isn't actually being sued for ripping CDs, like the Washington Post and several other sources have reported, but for plain old illegal downloading.
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Ho-ho-horrible: Music sales plunge 20 percent this Christmas
Music sales tanked this Christmas, dropping 20 percent lower than last year's level. Labels are looking to boost their digital sales numbers to compensate for the CD's decline, even if that means dropping DRM.
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Ripping CDs to computer is illegal. RIAA files Federal Suit.
The Recording Industry Association of America has filed a landmark federal lawsuit in Arizona, claiming that it is illegal for users to make copies of CD tracks to their computer for personal use.
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Radiohead: Artists often screwed by digital downloads
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has been telling anyone who will listen that digital downloads for artists are a bad deal under most recording contracts.
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Another school says "no" to RIAA prelitigation letters
Nothing more than IP addresses sit at the foundation of most of the RIAA's subpoenas and prelitigation letters, and the University of Washington says it has problems passing on legal threats based on them.
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Music for a phone keypad
Play songs such as Funkytown, Mary Had A Little Lamb, Ten Little Indians and much more by using your phone.
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Trent Reznor releases Saul William's album download info
As of 1/2/08,154,449 people chose to download Saul's new record.28,322 of those people chose to pay $5 for it, meaning:18.3% chose to pay.
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U.S. Album Sales Fell 9.5% in 2007 - Online sales up 45%
Album sales in the United States plunged 9.5 percent last year from 2006, as the recording industry had another weak year despite a 45 percent surge in the sale of digital tracks, according to figures released Thursday.
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Will fans pay? Reznor opens books on ‘Net music experiment
Trent Reznor produced the new Saul Williams rap record, then offered it online for 1) free or 2) five dollars. 18 percent of the downloaders paid. Success?
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RIAA CD liner parody
Don't laugh too hard, this could be a glmpse of the future if the RIAA has it's way...
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NIИ: McDonald's Steals Artwork from Nine Inch Nails
A side-by-side comparison of art found at a UK McDonald's and screenshots from a teaser trailer of "The Fragile".
read more | digg story
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MUST LISTEN: A guy SCANS old records to listen to them!
Really cool idea! This guy scans his old records to see if he can extract audio data from the scanned images! With downloadable MP3's of what he found.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Most Hilarious Guitar Design Ever
Here's Stig Pedersen from Denmark's D-A-D (formerly known as Disneyland After Dark but don't let the Walt Disney Corporation hear you calling them that else their lawyer-dialling fingers get twitchy) wielding another one of his barking mad two-string basses. Absolute genius!
read more | digg story
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