How is it that nearly three years have passed since the Guitar Hero first went on sale, and we've only just heard about a company applying the same concept to DJing? Considering that Guitar Hero has generated over $1 billion...
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Scratch: The Ultimate DJ Brings Guitar Hero Concept to DJing
EMI Planning Own Music Service
EMI, the smallest major label, has big plans for launching its own digital music store by the end of the year. Not much is known about the project, other than that it will include audio and video and a combination...
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Rick Astley's MTV Award Hacked, With Pleasure
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After word dropped that Rickrolling phenomenon Rick Astley had been included in MTV Europe's laughable Best Act Ever category, to be decided by online polling and awarded at the network's gala in November, some resourceful individuals wasted little time in...
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Eno and Chilvers Release Sweet Music App for iPhone
iPhones and iPod Touches are commonly used to listen to music, but several developers have been working on Apps that let you make music as well. One of the more interesting of these is Bloom, a collaboration between musician/producer Brian...
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Foo Fighters Smack Down McCain's 'Hero' Theft
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He's already angered John Mellencamp, Van Halen, Heart, Jackson Browne and probably other bands we can't remember. Now John McCain has run afoul of Dave Grohl's Foo Fighters, which is fed up with the Republican nominee's use of the band's...
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Report: Amazon, Rhapsody Gaining on iTunes
An Ipsos quarterly study of released Wednesday shows significant gains in the court of public opinion for Amazon and Rhapsody, with more consumers identifying them as the best online music option. Among Americans who were aware of more than one...
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The Flaming Lips Christmas on Mars Finally Takes Flight
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It's been in production since 2001, but Wayne Coyne's bizarro holiday sci-fi film is touching down at last, with the help of left-field distribution house Cinema Purgatorio. Although it has screened at music fests and art houses, The Flaming Lips'...
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Video: Common's 'Universal Mind Control' Cyberfunk
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Conscientious rapper Common recombined Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock" and Hype Williams' 21st-century visuals to create the mesmerizing video for "Universal Mind Control," which went live on Tuesday on imeem, the awesome online music resource. The single comes from the new...
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Insound Busts Out Free Indie Music Compilations
Online music retailer Insound launched a new program that lets you download a digital sampler for free with any MP3 order, or by just going to a special area of the site and clicking a download link. The promo serves...
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Video: The Sea and Cake's Aimless 'Weekend' Rules
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"May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift. Do not advance the action according to a plan." So go the early words of Don DeLillo's masterful postmodernist novel White Noise. But the desire could easily apply to both The...
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Paul McCartney's Blistering New Sound
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Sir Paul McCartney has some new tricks up his sleeve. His Paulness is readying a third record with dance music producer Youth under the moniker The Fireman -- the first collaboration between the two to feature vocals. The Electric Arguments,...
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Video: Listening Post Interviews Pandora's Tim Westergren
I spent the end of last week at the Digital Music Forum West conference in Hollywood, California, in part to interview Pandora founder Tim Westergren as part of a keynote address. To hear the latest about the webcasting royalty situation...
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Web-Friendly Musical Scores, At Last
Music teachers, students and everyone in between will find something to love about NoteFlight, a flash-based service for composing, editing and sharing musical scores online that's free to use if you sign up for the beta. We already saw a...
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MP3: Kinetic Stereokids - 'Have A Nice Day'
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Four childhood friends from Flint, Michigan who started jamming in a basement as an apparent means of seeking refuge from a city with "staggering unemployment and one of the nation's highest crime rates" now comprise the band Kinetic Stereokids, whose...
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Liveblog: Four Digital Music Startups Make Their Cases
At the Digital Music Forum West, four digital music entrepreneurs pitched their products to a crowd of digital music insiders with a seven minute time limit. Here's what they had to say (all quotes paraphrased).
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Liveblog: The Future of Mobile Music
What's the latest with putting music on cellphones? Executives close to the situation shared their views on the topic at the Digital Music Forum West in Hollywood, California. Here's what they're saying (all quotes paraphrased):
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