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Papa Roach Bashes Geffen/Interscope in New Single, Says Execs at Old Label Should "Burn"
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There's no shortage of songs where artists express their utter despisement for the music industry. In their latest single “Burn," Papa Roach bashes their former record label Geffen/Interscope for allegedly being “two-faced." In a recent interview with Rockaaa.com, lead singer Jacoby Shaddix said, “There's a lot of two-faced shit in this business. Geffen/Interscope pissed me off—it was a really bad ending with them." Apparently, the label put out ...To Be Loved: The Best Of Papa Roach against the band's wishes ...
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Citigroup Likely to Take Control of EMI by Christmas
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The official line is that they are still weighing options, but Guy Hands has reportedly been telling Terra Firma investors that they could loose control of EMI to lender Citigroup before the end of the year. His statements come a few weeks after he lost a last ditch lawsuit against CitiGroup claiming fraud and just days after reports that several groups of Terra Firma Investors told Hands that they are unwilling to add more cash to save the debt ridden ...
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A CD Label That Plays to Sounds of Chicago
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AAJ Staff
When the pianist Bradley Parker released his first LP in 1979, he went to the Chicago Tattooing and Piercing Company parlor on Belmont Avenue and had the album title, “Latin Black," inked across his left forearm. This was novel among artists in the '80s, when tattoos belonged primarily to sailors and biker gangs. Mr. Parker—also known as Bradley Parker-Sparrow, or just Sparrow to friends, associates and detractors —did the same for his next three albums, all recorded for Southport Records, ...
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MidemNet Lab Names Top Digital Music Sartups
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MidemNet Lab has announced its 2011 class of top digital music start-ups. For this 2nd edition, the companies with the strongest potential in mobile apps, B2B and B2C music services were chosen by UK consulting firm Music Ally to take part in a showcase during MIDEM January 22-26 in Cannes. Here are the finalists:
Mobile applications:
Airbuzz (France)—music discovery Amidio (Russia)—music making tool Bounce Mobile (UK)—remix tool Jammbox (Australia)—music news aggregator Khu.sh (USA)—music making tool Mix Me In (USA)—cloud music ...
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Facebook Exec Says: "We Are in the Music Space"
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(UPDATED) When asked if Facebook would use it's social platform to reinvent the music industry like Zynga changed gaming, Ethan Beard, the Director of the Facebook Developer platform, replied “ We are in the music space." Beard was referring to Connect and the ability for outside music companies to tap into Facebook's social network, and as proof he shared how Facebook helped grow Spotify. Video & How Facebook Grew Spotify Traffic: According to Beard, when Spotify integrated Facebook into it's ...
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Music is Now a "Public Good" Like Street Lighting.
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How do you punish someone that doesn't believe what they're doing is wrong? Better yet, how do you tell someone that file sharing is immortal when they don't think that it should be illegal in the first place? These are the questions that Joe Cox, an economist from the University of Portsmouth Business School, found himself grappling with after he conducted his recent study. In it, he attempted to connect the dots between the motivations of file sharers and determine ...
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What Can You Learn from Brett Domino?
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We All Make Music
In this age of instant gratification and short attention spans, online videos have become a staple of entertainment and discovery, with millions of options at your fingertips. Video gives musicians many different kinds of chances to stand out, either through covers, unorthodox instrumentation, or displaying their senses of humor or out-sized personae.
Brett Domino has used all of these approaches, and it has helped him become a YouTube phenomenon. A look at some of our favorite Domino videos shows how ...
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