"Hi, it's Tim from Pandora, I'm writing today to ask for your help. The survival of Pandora and all of Internet radio is in jeopardy because of a recent decision by the Copyright Royalty Board to almost triple the licensing fees for Internet radio sites. In response to these new and unfair fees, we have formed the SaveNetRadio Coalition..."
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Monday, January 7, 2008
10 Worst Hit Songs of 2007
If this wasn't the worst ever year for popular music, then there's some other year that I probably lived through and feel painfully sorry for in retrospect. Here, though, we present ten separate case studies as evidence that our mass culture music is sinking deeper and deeper into a panoply of stinky sh*t
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How our financial system really works
Clear video explaining how our financial system works. Heard people talking about national debt, creating money out of nothing and the Federal Reserve? Watch this video and learn all there is to know.
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Nine Inch Nails Concept Album Builds Story With Websites From The Future
A set of websites have emerged in support of the new Nine Inch Nails album "Year Zero". The first of the sites was discovered by fans who noticed highlighted letters on the back of a nine inch nails shirt for a tour that kicked off this weekend. This led to the discovery of various IP addresses and an entire story of the future built through sites.
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This dude sings better than most girls!!
Nick Pitera entered a contest to sing a song from "The Little Mermaid" and win a trip to Broadway. Most dudes who entered sang one of the guy's songs. Not Nick...
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New Tay Zonday Video!
Tay Zonday Has A New Video"Dr. Pepper decided to make me a music video to celebrate their new Cherry Chocolate beverage! It was a fantastic shoot and I met lots of talented people!" - Says the movie description.
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Girl gives Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" a handjob!
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Feist - 1 2 3 4
You know that video from the new iPod commercial? Well its pretty amazing. Here it is in its entirety.
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RIAA claims rights to all artists' royalties
The RIAA is looking more and more like the Mafia. Not only is it trying to kill Internet radio, but its royalty-collecting subsidiary, SoundExchange, is now claiming the right to collect royalties for ALL artists, even those who want nothing to do with the RIAA and its jackbooted henchmen.
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RIAA Boycott: Congress Introduces "Fair Use" Bill; They're Totally With Us
Wait a minute… could this be… good news on the DRM front? Really? Somebody pinch me. Reps. Rich Boucher (D-Va.) and John Dolittle (R-Calif.) introduced their "Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship" (or FAIR USE) Act today, one that aims to make crippled DRM illegal.
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The Cal Marching Band's Amazing 16-bit Video Game Halftime Show
They run through a number of classic game songs, all while forming scenes from the games out of the band itself. It's got everything from Pong and Tetris to Zelda and Mario, and it's amazing.
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Travis Barker makes that annoying 'Crank That' Soulja Boy song MUCH better
Travis Barker adds drums to the songs. Lots of drums. I hated that song before, this I can actually listen to.Nice Remix.
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The origins of the Futurama theme music.
Perhaps one of Henry's most well-known influences on contemporary popular culture is to the theme song of the TV series Futurama. The tune is inspired by Henry's 1967 song "Psyché Rock." Ceremony (1969) (in collaboration with English band Spooky Tooth)
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RIAA - Sue Bush's Daughters for $1,800,000 in Damages
Mitchell Silverman, an attorney in Florida, noticed in a recent news-story that GW Bush's twin daughters presented him with a mix CD of exercise music for Father's Day. Since the record industry maintains that making and distributing mix CDs is a copyright infringement, Silverman sent their legal offices a letter on letterhead asking them to sue.
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50 Cent busted lip syncing
RAPPER 50 Cent has suffered an embarrassing blow at the BET awards, when he was caught lip synching live on stage, watched by millions of people.Entertainment site MediaTakeOut.com report that 50 Cent was caught out from the beginning of his performance, after being ceremoniously lowered onto stage on a podium.
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U of Nebraska to RIAA: here's a bill for the time you're wasting
The University of Nebraska is so pissed off with the RIAA's outrageous requests to help rat out students who file-share that it has sent the RIAA a bill for the time the University has wasted dealing with the RIAA's demands. Go Corn Huskers!
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Hip Hop Isn't Dying, It Just Sucks
Hip hop sales are down. But why? Countless articles have said the problems with hip hop stem solely from its content. Not true. Hip hop first and foremost is a musical art-form. Right now, hip hop just isn’t living up to musical standards. It’s just plain bad.
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A girl on Youtube has a wonderful voice - straight from the 20ies
This girl is quite a phenomenon on Youtube. Never contacted by media industry she adds a video almost every day. Check out What a Wonderful World, Santa Baby, Mambo Italiano and others. This site has a list of links to Youtube videos and no ads as of yet. Best of luck to her.
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Pearls Before Breakfast
Joshua Bell is one of the world's greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played it for spare change, incognito, outside a bustling Metro stop in Washington, would anyone notice?
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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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Hip Hop Sales Collapsing: "They can no longer fool the white kids."
Hip-hop now faces a generation that takes gangsta rap as just another mundane marker in the cultural scenery. "It's collapsing because they can no longer fool the white kids," says Nickels. "There's only so much redundancy anyone can take."
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Timbaland ripped off a track from my buddy.
He literally stole the whole musical line to build this song around. I talked to Tempest and he told me that it's no use going to court, eventhough Scene.org supplied papers saying the song got uploaded on their servers in 2000. Fighting a big corporation like Geffen costs tons of money and time, which he does not have.
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When Pigs Fly: A Brief History of Record Industry Suicide
For the major labels, it's over. It's fucking over. You're going to burn to the fucking ground, and we're all going to dance around the fire. And it's your own fault. Surely, somewhere deep inside, you had to know this day was coming, right?
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Nine Inch Nails' "Year Zero" disk holds a secret.......
If you picked up the new album today, you opened it up to find a black CD. Put upon putting it in your computer and listening to it for a while, you'll find the CD isn't black anymore when you take it out......
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Ever Wondered Who The RIAA Really Are?
The RIAA is actually made up of many different Record LabelsThese is a complete list of them all.Digg this article and crash the RIAA server!
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Nine Inch Nails Help Seal Record Industry's Coffin
Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor wrote on the NIN site that the writing is on the wall for the traditional music distribution model, saying that the music business has radically mutated from one thing to something inherently very different today and that “it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as
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NINE INCH NAILS Frontman Says His Record Company Is Run By 'Thieves'
It's a very odd time to be a musician on a major label, because there's so much resentment towards the record industry that it's hard to position yourself in a place with the fans where you don't look like a greedy asshole. But at the same time, when our record came out I was disappointed at the number of people that actually bought it.
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Trent Reznor: Steal My Music
Reznor to Fans: "Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means - STEAL IT. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin'. Because one way or another these motherfuckers will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that that's not right."
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Trent Reznor: "No wonder people steal music."
The NIN frontman blogs: "As the climate grows more and more desperate for record labels, their answer to their mostly self-inflicted wounds seems to be to screw the consumer over even more. A couple of examples that quickly come to mind..." He then details how his own label insists on screwing fans, and how he hopes to counteract that soon.
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Trent Reznor splits from Universal Music, goes completely independent
No doubt as a reaction to all the bad press he's been giving record labels, Universal/Interscope has relieved Trent Reznor of his contractual duties. As of today, Nine Inch Nails is working without a useless money-grubbing middleman and going straight to the fans. The revolution continues...
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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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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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**DIGG THIS** Radiohead's In Rainbows Just got bought for over $1,000 (PICS
Purebuttons.com, LLC has purchased the new Radiohead album, In Rainbows, for $1,000.00 in support of Radiohead's "silent" effort to revolutionize the music industry. (continues) If you support the entertainment and the music industry, check it out and digg it.
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Many of Bob Marley's Original Recordings Stolen
A huge collection of 1970s music has turned up missing from the archives from the former Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation. Authorities say among the music that has "walked" from the archive are recordings by reggae legends Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.
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