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Shazam Adds Tour Dates, Pandora, Last.FM

Source: HypeBot
February 16, 2010

Mobile music discovery provider Shazam announced enhancements to its popular Shazam Encore and RED Apps on the iPhone App Store. With the enhanced version users can access tour information for tagged artists, the Shazam Blog and the ability to use Pandora and Last.fm to create Internet radio stations.

With Pandora or Last.fm, Shazam users can create their own radio stations that include additional songs by tagged artist as well as songs from other artists with similar styles and genres. When ...

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Privacy Watchdog Files Complaint with FTC over Google Buzz

Source: Michael Ricci
February 16, 2010

The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that Google Inc.s new social networking service Buzz violates federal consumer protection law. It is urging the FTC to open an investigation into the service because it “violated user expectations, diminished user privacy, contradicted Google's privacy policy, and may have violated federal wiretap laws." Google Buzz launched in millions of Gmail inboxes last week. The new service prompted an uproar as some people got nervous ...

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The Wired iPad App: A Video Demonstration?

Source: All About Jazz
February 16, 2010

[Editors note: I find it odd, interesting that Wired magazine in all their zeal to announce their new Apps for the Apple iPad, present this article in a video demonstration written in Flash, while all the while Flash won't play on any Apple mobile, as this would not open on my iPhone. Seems the battle between Apple vs Adobe Flash is far from over. Flash as Steve Jobs has said runs contrary to the Apple OS using too much battery ...

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Handmade Amps Rock out with Matchless Tone

Source: All About Jazz
February 16, 2010

You cant swing a Strat these days without hitting a boutique tube amp with sweet tone. It seems every day someone comes out of his workshop carrying a new rig and spouting buzzwords like handmade and hand-wired.

They're all following a path blazed by Matchless.

The guys at Matchless all but launched the boutique amplifier craze back in 89. They were hand-wiring amps long after the big guys had turned to faster, cheaper methods and long before the little guys ...

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Wired for the iPad to Launch by Summer

Source: All About Jazz
February 14, 2010

Wired Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson announced at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference on Friday that the publication would be releasing its content for the iPad by summer. The first iPads are expected to be available at the end of March. TED attendees got a demonstration -- on what looked like a supersized iPad -- of how their future reading experience would look with the March issue of Wired magazine. “I'm from the media world," Anderson told the audience ...

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Theresa Andersson Launches New Website

Source: On Target Media Group
February 14, 2010

Please visit the newly launched theresaandersson.com to download a free track and get all the latest info, including an upcoming special event...

On Sunday, February 28, 2010, Theresa will be performing live at the Le Petit Theatre with very some very special guests, including the legendary musician, composer and producer Allen Toussaint. The show will be recorded for her upcoming DVD, Theresa Andersson: Live at Le Petit, which will feature an extended set of old and new music, including some ...

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Google's Blog Crackdown Continues

Source: HypeBot
February 13, 2010

Blogger Bill Lipold of I Rock Cleveland Responds

As they did last year, Google has without warning deleted a number of established music blogs hosted on its Blogger service this week.

In an email sent to I Rock Cleveland, Pop Tarts, Masala, To Die By Your Side, It's a Rap, Living Ears and perhaps others, Google said that it had been sent multiple copyright infringement notices from record labels. Each blogger awoke to find years of posts deleted and a ...

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Bandzoogle Upgrades Web Site Builder and Music Marketing Platform

Source: HypeBot
February 13, 2010

5 Hypebot Readers Get Bandzoogle Free For 6 Months

Bandzoogle.com, the self-service web site and marketing platform for musicians, has launched a major series of upgrades. A new “Custom Style Editor" enables any artist to create a robust custom website using their own domain name without the help of a web designer. They can add their own images, typefaces, and backgrounds for a custom look.

“This is the first time musicians have been able to create a ...

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