Thounds is running a competition until February 8 where you can win a Fender Stratocaster or SoundCloud premium account. Record a track on Thounds, get your friends to comment and the most comments will win. Click here for more details. Good luck!
Here Comes The Sun; the lost solo guitar (via @openculture, lucasbandeira01)
Thounds is running a competition until February 8 where you can win a Fender Stratocaster or SoundCloud premium account. Record a track on Thounds, get your friends to comment and the most comments will win. Click here for more details. Good luck!
“Downloading music is the same thing I used to do: I used to record all the songs in tapes, the hits, the songs I liked from the radio. I don’t care. I hate seeing all those big rock stars complaining. At least they’re paying attention to your music, moron, and they’re paying attention to you, you know? You should appreciate that, fu**. Why are you complaining? You have 5 fu**ing big houses, so shut up”.”
— Liam Gallagher (via demycrawley)
“Any other musicians out there notice that ever since they shut down MegaUpload, the money has just been POURING in?”
Apparently, everyone who was doing cool stuff in the world of music back in the ’80s and ’90s is doing cool stuff right now, too. They might even be doing it alone. Long-time Journey/Earth/Dawes/Nadler/Joyner fan? Wake up, they’re back. Check out our latest curation, From indie legend to Kickstarter god/dess.
Epiphone has just announced a new Ace Frehley tribute model Les Paul. From the press announcement:
Epiphone is proud to announce our tribute to Ace Frehley, one of rock’s most influential guitarists, with the Epiphone Limited Edition Ace Frehley “Budokan” Les Paul Custom Outfit. As the lead guitarist for KISS (and the original designer of the famous KISS logo) Ace Frehley is renown around the world as one of the Les Paul guitar’s most exciting ambassadors as well as one of rock’s greatest showman. Ace single handedly inspired a generation of guitarists to pick up rock and roll’s most powerful axe. Now, Epiphone makes this iconic guitar available to players everywhere.
This looks like a pretty sweet piece of gear. The only thing missing is the fake drop-out smoking pickup. It will be limited to a run of 1000 and comes with a custom hard case, a certificate of authenticity, and a photo of the Space Ace himself. So if you have a few thousand dollars to spare, go get yours today.
“A $250 billion per year loss would be almost $800 for every man, woman, and child in America. And 750,000 jobs – that’s twice the number of those employed in the entire motion picture industry in 2010.
The good news is that the numbers are wrong. In 2010, the Government Accountability Office released a report noting that these figures “cannot be substantiated or traced back to an underlying data source or methodology,” which is polite government-speak for “these figures were made up out of thin air.”
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— The Freakonomics guys call bullshit on the MPAA’s piracy numbers. (via jimray)
