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(via rollingstone) Tim Lambesis, singer for the heavy metal band...

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:52:53 -0400

(via rollingstone) Tim Lambesis, singer for the heavy metal band As I Lay Dying, was arrested yesterday on charges that he tried to hire an undercover detective to kill his estranged wife.

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Mon, 06 May 2013 02:05:09 -0400

futurejournalismproject: Twitter Introduces #Music Discovery...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:27:22 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

Twitter Introduces #Music Discovery App

Twitter #music is a music discovery app where Twitter uses its own analytics of tweets and overall engagement to categorize and promote artists. The app divides music into four categories: music that is #nowplaying and tweeted by those you follow, #popular music trending on Twitter, #suggested music based on your tastes, and #emerging artists (“hidden talent” found in tweets). Every artist you follow shows up on your profile in the app, and you can tweet about what you’re listening to from the app as well.

The music on Twitter #music comes from Spotify, Rdio, and iTunes. To listen to full songs, you need to sign up with a basic Rdio account or a premium Spotify account through the app. If you refuse to sign up for either of those, you’ll only hear 30 second song previews from iTunes. Also, you can only hear the hit song of the artist. If you like what you hear, you have to go elsewhere. The app isn’t available for Android yet.

The customer complaints on iTunes seem to be trending toward: “Why would I want to see the tweets of every artist I listen to?” and “Why create a music app where you have to sign up for another music source to hear the whole song?”

FJP: Twitter is for following friends, but it’s also for following your interests. Twitter #music allows you to see what you favorite magazine or nonprofit organization deems worthy of its playlist — which could be interesting.

The app has proved useful because I’ve already discovered a few new artists I enjoy. However, I don’t like how the web version of Twitter #music warps my cover picture and icon. Also, the app seems to have issues updating with the web version. For instance, when viewing #popular artists, Bruno Mars was labeled #20 on the Twitter chartsin the app, but was listed at #5 on the web. Also, the #nowplaying tag updates quickly on the web, but lags in the app. These discrepancies are probably just early bugs though. They’ll be snatched up in the beak of the Twitter bird soon enough. — Krissy

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toner: $150 Korg Volca Analog Synth, Bass, Drum Grooveboxes,...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:17:30 -0400

toner:

$150 Korg Volca Analog Synth, Bass, Drum Grooveboxes, with MIDI: Official Details, Pics, Video

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theeraoftheengineer: 3D Printed Guitar

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:44:26 -0400

theeraoftheengineer:

3D Printed Guitar

rollingstone: Amazon has extended their AutoRip service, which...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:49:33 -0400

rollingstone:

Amazon has extended their AutoRip service, which provides music buyers with a digital copy of their music immediately after they purchase a CD, to include thousands of vinyl records.

clangandclatter: 6-year-old Avery Molek performs Van Halen’s...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:13:39 -0400

clangandclatter:

6-year-old Avery Molek performs Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher”

Wow. Just wow. Check out some of his other videos to see that he’s not some one-trick pony, especially this performance of Metallica’s “Through the Never” which proves he could very easily replace Lars.

What was I doing when I was 6?! Probably playing with rocks, sticks, and dirt.

MP3s can't be resold online, says district court

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:46:52 -0400

MP3s can't be resold online, says district court:

infoneer-pulse:

Reselling copies of MP3s you legally purchased violates copyright, according to a ruling made over the weekend by a New York district court judge. The ruling is a victory for Capitol Records, a subsidiary of Vivendi, and marks a devastating loss to ReDigi, a website that lets users resell copies of their legally purchased MP3s. The decision applies only to the New York jurisdiction for now, but could serve as a model for other states, and it’s highly unlikely they would rule any differently.

» via The Verge

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Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:36:00 -0400

"Google’s YouTube, not Apple’s iTunes, is now the dominant force in music. Nearly 2 billion music..."

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 03:28:57 -0400

“Google’s YouTube, not Apple’s iTunes, is now the dominant force in music. Nearly 2 billion music videos are viewed on YouTube every day. When Baauer’s “Harlem Shake” entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 1 on Feb. 20, only the 21st song in Billboard’s 58-year history to do so, and the first by a previously unknown artist, it was because of YouTube. This highlights a broader point: Google has amassed unprecedented power as a medium. It is massive, global and central. In addition, its claims about viewership are not audited.”

- You didn’t make the Harlem Shake go viral—corporations did – Quartz (via slantback)

fastcodesign: This Online Music Vid Lets You Rearrange The Band...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:53:24 -0400

fastcodesign:

This Online Music Vid Lets You Rearrange The Band As It Plays

The new interactive video from the indie outfit Tanlines, however, is actually rough, and it really does take us behind the scenes—right into a Photoshop-style piece of editing software.

The video, created by the New York-based creative outfit OK Focus, takes the form of an interactive website where viewers can direct the video as it plays.

Read more here.

And check the video out here.

What do you think of this new take on the user-controlled music video?

flavorpill: Relatively few bands transcend their eras; many...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:18:02 -0400

flavorpill:

Relatively few bands transcend their eras; many more prove beholden to them. And in the 12 years since Is This It, the world has changed. The city that the band once embodied has changed — the East Village and Lower East Side are basically consumerist theme parks, and Williamsburg has largely followed suit. The venues and parties the band played in their early days have long gone. Their new album The Comedown Machine‘s vaunted “new direction” feels like a band struggling to find a new place for itself in an age that no longer befits it.

The culture that The Strokes once defined has gone, disappeared into a haze of stereotype and irrelevance. And so, more tellingly, has the swagger and conviction with which the band members once carried themselves. The fun has gone. Their air of not caring a great deal seemed to evolve into genuinely not caring at all, and in 2013, even The Strokes don’t appear to like The Strokes anymore: the stories about Julian Casablancas literally phoning in the lyrics to their last record Angles are legion and hilarious — which, really, why bother?

The Strokes’ “The Comedown Machine is out tomorrow.

“The Hipster is Long Dead, Should The Strokes Die With Them?”