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  • Apple Reveals Ping – The iTunes Social Network – Oh, And CDs Are Obsolete

    Apple Reveals Ping – The iTunes Social Network – Oh, And CDs Are Obsolete

    Share Apple’s September Music event was held today with great fanfare and much joyful crying by Apple Fanboys. So what did Ol’Jobsy reveal? Well for starters, Apple sells a lot of iPods. Over 200 million sold to date, and with the introduction of the newest version of the touch screen iPods, I’m fairly certain they [...]

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  • The New Arcade Fire Video – We Used To Wait – Is a Video Game

    The New Arcade Fire Video – We Used To Wait – Is a Video Game

    Share Ugh..is there anything left to be said about the collective jizzfest the interwebz had over the new Arcade Fire “video”?? It’s not a video. Its a video game with their new single playing in the background. A mainly passive video game. But a video game nonetheless. On the website they recommend you shut down [...]

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  • Kanye West Collaborates With Bon Iver – Crossing Fan Bases and Introducing Nicki Minaj

    Kanye West Collaborates With Bon Iver – Crossing Fan Bases and Introducing Nicki Minaj

    Share Kanye West is on his grind. He’s going to be releasing a new song EVERY FRIDAY UNTILL CHRISTMAS! Sorry about the yelling. It’s just impressive to see an artist working so hard. Or at least capturing the media’s attention with such claims. His latest release Monster is sure to be a huge crossover hit [...]

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  • The Relationship Between Creator and The Music Created

    The Relationship Between Creator and The Music Created

    Share Why is it that every time I hear a song that really gets me, I have to go find out everything about the artist, the person or people who created it? I say that it’s all about the music, but there’s been plenty of times where I’ve liked an artist more or less depending [...]

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  • 3 Steps To Creating Die-Hard Fans With Last.fm

    3 Steps To Creating Die-Hard Fans With Last.fm

    Share When it comes to social networks, musicians often view Last.fm as the runt of the litter when compared against the likes of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Tumblr. Sure, it might be a social network with healthy traffic (5.5 million uniques a month according to Compete) and a great active user base (over 1,000 scrobbles [...]

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  • How To Write A Hit: Cee-Lo’s Massive Fuck You

    How To Write A Hit: Cee-Lo’s Massive Fuck You

    Share Watch this: This is a hit. The melody, production, topic, and hook are irrisitable. Some naysayers have questioned whether this will be played on the radio. But this ain’t Horseville, and who cares, this doesn’t need to touch TERRESTRIAL radio and it will still sell a million copies. Satellite radio and the internet are [...]

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Apple Reveals Ping – The iTunes Social Network – Oh, And CDs Are Obsolete
[ 0 ] September 1, 2010

Apple Reveals Ping – The iTunes Social Network – Oh, And CDs Are Obsolete

Share Apple’s September Music event was held today with great fanfare and much joyful crying by Apple Fanboys. So what did Ol’Jobsy reveal? Well for starters, Apple sells a lot of iPods. Over 200 million sold to date, and with the introduction of the newest version of the touch screen iPods, I’m fairly certain they [...]

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The New Arcade Fire Video – We Used To Wait – Is a Video Game
[ 2 ] August 31, 2010

The New Arcade Fire Video – We Used To Wait – Is a Video Game

Share Ugh..is there anything left to be said about the collective jizzfest the interwebz had over the new Arcade Fire “video”?? It’s not a video. Its a video game with their new single playing in the background. A mainly passive video game. But a video game nonetheless. On the website they recommend you shut down [...]

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Kanye West Collaborates With Bon Iver – Crossing Fan Bases and Introducing Nicki Minaj
[ 0 ] August 27, 2010

Kanye West Collaborates With Bon Iver – Crossing Fan Bases and Introducing Nicki Minaj

Share Kanye West is on his grind. He’s going to be releasing a new song EVERY FRIDAY UNTILL CHRISTMAS! Sorry about the yelling. It’s just impressive to see an artist working so hard. Or at least capturing the media’s attention with such claims. His latest release Monster is sure to be a huge crossover hit [...]

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The Relationship Between Creator and The Music Created
[ 0 ] August 24, 2010

The Relationship Between Creator and The Music Created

Share Why is it that every time I hear a song that really gets me, I have to go find out everything about the artist, the person or people who created it? I say that it’s all about the music, but there’s been plenty of times where I’ve liked an artist more or less depending [...]

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The Kanye West Social Media Strategy
[ 0 ] August 24, 2010

The Kanye West Social Media Strategy

Share Everybody’s favourite Mouthpiece, Kanye West, had a much publicized entrance into social media earlier this summer as he stormed onto Facebook to preform and Twitter to take over. Why would he be doing this? He’s got a new album of course. Did ya notice how long it took him to get onto twitter? That [...]

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3 Steps To Creating Die-Hard Fans With Last.fm
[ 0 ] August 23, 2010

3 Steps To Creating Die-Hard Fans With Last.fm

Share When it comes to social networks, musicians often view Last.fm as the runt of the litter when compared against the likes of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Tumblr. Sure, it might be a social network with healthy traffic (5.5 million uniques a month according to Compete) and a great active user base (over 1,000 scrobbles [...]

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How To Write A Hit: Cee-Lo’s Massive Fuck You
[ 0 ] August 22, 2010

How To Write A Hit: Cee-Lo’s Massive Fuck You

Share Watch this: This is a hit. The melody, production, topic, and hook are irrisitable. Some naysayers have questioned whether this will be played on the radio. But this ain’t Horseville, and who cares, this doesn’t need to touch TERRESTRIAL radio and it will still sell a million copies. Satellite radio and the internet are [...]

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This Is Not Your Audience: Method Man Meets The Juggalos
[ 0 ] August 19, 2010

This Is Not Your Audience: Method Man Meets The Juggalos

Share Magnets how do they work? Event security how does it work? Expanding your fanbase how does it work? All questions that were floating around the heads of many people at the annual Insane Clown Posse mecca, the Gathering of the Juggalos. Unfortunately all of those questions remained unanswered. While ICP played to a rabid and welcoming fan [...]

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Weezer Funds New Album, Hurley, With Massive Product Placement
[ 6 ] August 17, 2010

Weezer Funds New Album, Hurley, With Massive Product Placement

Share I am a long time Weezer fan. From Blue Album to . . ahem. . Hurley (Weezer’s peculiarly titled new album) I will always support one of the first important bands in my life. So it is with a lot of love and good deal of humor I have watched Weezer make a career for themselves, and [...]

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Nobody Buys CDs Anymore So Why Are You Pressing Them?
[ 0 ] August 16, 2010

Nobody Buys CDs Anymore So Why Are You Pressing Them?

Share My car was broken into the other weekend. I parked it in a nice safe residential neighbourhood and forgot to lock it. Naturally, growing up in the 90′s I have gathered an extensive CD collection in my car. Every Zeppelin, Smashing Pumpkins, and 2Pac album was in there, and yet they were all left untouched. At first [...]

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