Over at TechCrunch it is being reported:"For those not familiar with what was going on, basically the streaming rates for Internet radio were in danger of being raised to levels that would have made it very hard for companies like Pandora to stay afloat. But a resolution has been reached between webcasters, artists, and record labels, Pandora's CTO Tom Conrad tells us."Pandora is finally on saf...
Ever watch a video clip on YouTube (or other sites) and wish you could download it instead of simply hoping that the URL will still be good next time you want to watch it?Well - here's the solution.If you use Firefox, you can download and install the "*DownloadHelper plug-in*":https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006, which automatically checks any site you go to with Firefox for vid...
Source: NME (UK) "Music videos will return to the British version of YouTube.com after a royalty deal was agreed. The site's owners Google and PRS for Music - who collect royalties on behalf of music publishers - resolved a long-running dispute over revenues, which had seen music videos pulled off YouTube in the UK since March." [Click here to go to the original article]
Just had a thought based upon a post I made a moment ago.. with all the talk in the mogosphere lately about elitist indie record store employees, and purging our ipods of "top 40 crap".. I'm sure that all of us, cultured musical palates or not, have some favorite guilty pleasures.. you know, some old or new Top 40 pap that we just have to listen to now and again.. what are your Top 5 Guilty Ple...
Inventing an entirely new musical genre, crossing rock with electronic, pop with huge avant garde concepts, where in a vision of a mechanistic, Thatcherite future, robots can wake you with a smile and obey your every command and men can fall in love with a film studio, is no easy task.Inventing the recording technology as you go in order to make that creative vision come true is quite another, ...
...with my seven year-old son. He's going through a Buggles phase right now; you'll see that reflected in the playlist. I've always been a "Clean Clean" fan, so I'll take a few extra spins of "Video Killed the Radio Star" in the short run.