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The Music Business Gets Leaky – Radiohead, Jay-Z, Muse and More

Posted on 08. Sep, 2009 by refe.

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It’s incredible how quickly news bunches up these days thanks to the social web. Seems like only a week or two ago that the online music community was all a twitter about the leak of Radiohead’s new single These are My Twisted Words.This week Jay-Z’s new album Blueprint 3 was rushed out a week ahead schedule [...]

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Imogen Heap Update Plus Full Streaming of New Album

Posted on 20. Aug, 2009 by refe.

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A few days ago Heap posted an update on Twitter linking to her website where she has her new album Ellipse streaming in its entirety. The record doesn’t officially drop until August 25th in the US.

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Imogen Heap Shows Us That DIY Pays Off – And Takes a Lot Of Work

Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by refe.

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Spend enough time online and you might begin to suspect that some media folks want you to think that the DIY approach will somehow be less work than then a traditional career in music. Strange, given that the term itself implies the opposite. ‘DIY’ does, after all, stand for ‘Do It Yourself.’ More rewarding? Less [...]

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The Return of the Supergroup

Posted on 11. Aug, 2009 by refe.

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The rock ’supergroup’ has been around since the 60’s with band’s like Cream, Blind Faith and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The concept has seen something of a revival recently with members of bands as diverse as the Smashing Pumpkins, Cheap Trick, Foo Fighters, Led Zepplin and even Hanson teaming up to form powerhouse lineups [...]

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Stunning Video – Coldplay’s Strawberry Swing

Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by refe.

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Coldplay seems to be a love ‘em or hate ‘em kind of band. That’s not uncommon when a group reaches the level of success that they have, although Coldplay does seem more divisive than most. Perhaps it’s frontman Chris Martin’s penchant for writing political commentary on his knuckles, perhaps it’s something else.
Regardless of how you [...]

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New Album Releases July 28th 2009

Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by refe.

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This week’s new releases include Amadou & Miriam with The Magic Couple, the Postal Service sound-alikes Owl City with the vinyl edition of Ocean Eyes, and a behemoth 13-Disc Rolling Stones box set.
One release that caught my eye is the new Starflyer 59 Ghosts of the Past. The album is aptly named – before revisiting them [...]

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Sufjan Stevens to Release BQE Multimedia Set Oct. 09

Posted on 21. Jul, 2009 by refe.

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It’s been four years this month since Sufjan Stevens released his last full record Come on Feel the Illinoise. For a man who once declared that he would release an album for each of America’s 50 states – and for the uniquely dedicated fans who follow the indie-rock wunderkind – four years is an awfully [...]

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Artist Uses Innovative Distribution Model in Ambitious Album per Month Project

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by refe.

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CreativeCommons.org ran a story last week on their blog about an artist named John Wood who is doing something interesting with his music:
“Beginning this past March, John Wood has written, recorded, mixed, and mastered an album a month. Distributed under the moniker Learning Music Monthly, the music arrives on the first of the month as [...]