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"I feel like my heart is going to explode," my wife screamed. That was right before she headed for the bleacher seats, hoping to hide from the sonic assault of My Bloody Valentine's live show at the Santa Monica Civic...
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My Bloody Valentine Tried to Kill Me!
Live Blog: Is Digital Copyright Broken?
Digital music executives are covering the digital copyright debate at the Digital Music Forum West in Hollywood, California. Here's what they're saying (all quotes paraphrased):
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Shout Factory Repurposes History's Soundtrack
Music is in the ear of the beholder. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech was a rhetorical movement that changed the world for the better. Muhammad Ali's freestyle raps made him a larger-than-life champion of not just sports...
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I'm Not a Gun's Iron Giant Electronica
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It's hard enough trying to pigeonhole techno wizard John Tejada or classical guitarist Takeshi Nishimoto. But their supergroup I'm Not a Gun is even harder. At least I can guess where the name came from: Brad Bird's criminally underrated animated...
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Rick Astley Lands MTV Award Nod (20 Years Later)
U2, Madonna and Christina Aguilera normally wouldn't have to nervously look over their shoulders for Rick Astley at the MTV Europe Music Awards, taking place in Liverpool and scheduled to air this November. But that was before Rickrolling, the internet...
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Springsteen Rocks Obama's University Circuit
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Barack Obama attracts big names like Sarah Palin attracts detractors. His latest musical partner Bruce Springsteen is going to work for him this week and next on the college circuit. But is The Boss too old to connect with students...
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Halloween Rocks: Its The Mummy!
Halloween may be the hippest music holiday on Earth. Monsters, vampires, ghosts and more have haunted rock, pop and beyond. Listening Post celebrates this merge all October, starting with...Little Tibia and the Fibias? Why not? The mop-topped skeletons thrash out...
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Beatles, Cirque Doc All Together Now Hits the Screen
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How and why did the Fab Four, who rarely collaborate with anyone anymore, hook up with contortionist wonders Cirque du Soleil for a eye-candy bonanza in Vegas called Love? The documentary All Together Now has the answers, which you can...
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MP3: Geeksta Rap Godfather Schools You on 'The Margaret Thatcher'
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Aficionados of the nerdcore rap movement, in which hacker types bust rhymes about programming, multi-sided dice, science fiction and other topics of interest to geeks, will be pleased to note that MC Frontalot's Final Boss album is slated for a...
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Apple: Copyright Board Decision Could Could Force iTunes Closure
The Copyright Royalty Board, a three member board appointed by the Librarian of Congress, is scheduled to hand down a decision on Thursday that Apple said could result in the closure of the iTunes music store. As part of their...
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Imeem Improves Social Media Network
The millions of needles in imeem's haystack of music, videos and people just became easier to find, thanks to a new design that highlights imeem-programmed content, offers a customized discovery page for each user and bundles everything on the site...
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Ukelele Techno Sucks: Interview With Amanda Palmer
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Equal parts piano siren, art agitator and punk-pop priestess, Amanda Palmer's performance instincts have energized her band The Dresden Dolls' gothic cabarets since 2001. But she has since decided to take a stab at a solo effort, and called upon...
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Medeski, Martin, Wood's Radiolarians Jams
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If you like tasty recombinations of jazz, funk and hip-hop, this three-headed hydra might just be for you. For nearly two decades, Medeski, Martin and Wood has churned out spinal jams that push the envelope of genre. Now the trio...
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Innerpartysystem Blows Our Minds With Remixable Video
I've come across a few remix widgets in my day, but this may have been the most fun I've ever had with one. Video artists from Eclectic Method, comprising members of the '90s video scratching group Emergency Broadcast Network, made...
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Nine Inch Nails To Distribute Music Through iPhone App
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Is Trent Reznor reading this blog? About a month ago, in a post about the 'Guitar Hero for iPhone' application Tap Tap Revenge, we suggested that an iPhone app might be the perfect vehicle for distributing music. The commerce aspect...
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Activision CEO: Labels Should Owe Guitar Hero, Not Reverse
Guitar Hero, Rock Band and other music-oriented videogames are the latest hotly contested licensing battleground for music, as executives on both sides of the equation question the deals that allow songs to be used in the games. Last month, feisty...
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Lars Ulrich Responds To Death Magnetic Mixing Criticism
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Maybe Metallica really is DethKlok. Like that semi-fictional band, Metallica has everything it does scrutinized to an extent other bands can only dream of -- as if one misstep by the band were capable of causing a worldwide economic meltdown....
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Prediction: Bruce Springsteen's Super Bowl Setlist
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The Super Bowl halftime show, one of the most coveted slots in the music business, will be filled by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band next February. Over 148 million people tuned in last year to watch fellow Americana...
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