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News: Music Industry

10 Most Creative People in Music Business According to Fast Company

June 18, 2009

As part of an issue on creativity, business magazine Fast Company has named the “The 100 Most Creative People In Business" and it's “10 Most Creative People In The Music Business" are: DeAndre “Soulja Boy Tell'em" Way, 18 year old rapper/producer Tim Westergren, Chief Strategy Officer & Founder, Pandora Alexandra Patsavas, Owner, Chop Shop Music ...

News: Technology

Despite Troubles, Poll Shows Myspace Still Important to Social Music

June 18, 2009

Earlier this week May stats were released that Facebook has passed MySpace in users and pageviews both in the US and wordwide. Yesterday, MySpace announced a re-organization that will see 420 people or 30% of staffers loose their jobs. Despite these troubles, as of Wednesday morning almost 78% of Hypebot readers responding ...

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News: Recording

Sting Announces 'Winter' Album for Fall

June 18, 2009

Summer is just around the corner, but Sting has another season on his mind. The singer announced today (June 17) that his next album, If On a Winter's Night..., will be inspired by his favorite time of year and feature two original compositions as well as traditional songs, carols and lullabies from the British Isles. The ...

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News: Radio

Jelli Crowdsources Radio Programming

June 18, 2009

Broadcast radio sucks. It's programmed by computers controlled by old white men looking over their shoulders for advice from a handful of consultants and focus groups. What if we, the people, controlled what was played? It would have to better than it is now, right? Jelli.net aims to find out. Jelli is ...

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News: Technology

Obama Favors Dumping Work Cell Phone Tax

June 18, 2009

The Obama administration on Tuesday said it will back repealing a hard-to-enforce tax on personal use of work cellphones, appeasing the business community, phone makers and users. A 1989 law requires companies seeking to deduct worker cellphones as an expense to track personal use with painstaking documentation of minutes. The government, in a notice last week ...

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News: Technology

Apple's iPhone Os 3.0 is Late; We Say: Wait

June 18, 2009

Ladies and gentlemen, start your iTunes. Just not yet. The new iPhone OS 3.0 update for all existing iPhones is scheduled to come out today, but it still hasn't arrived on iTunes as of 10 AM ET. According to general Web scuttlebutt, the update will arrive around 1 PM ET. Expect Apple's servers to be slammed, ...

News: Technology

Apple Takes Aim at Palm Pre's iTunes Support

June 18, 2009

Considering that the Palm Pre was designed in part by ex-Apple employees, and that its iTunes syncing function works by pretending to be an iPod, it was predictable that Apple would try to shoot it down. The Big Fruit today released a very thinly veiled attack on the Pre's iTunes capabilities, in the form of a ...

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News: Technology

Report: Broadband Usage is Up, as Are Prices

June 18, 2009

Broadband adoption is on the rise, but so are monthly bills, according to a Wednesday report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. About 63 percent of American adults now have broadband connections at home, up 15 percent from the same time last year. Unfortunately, an increased customer base has not prompted a drop in ...

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News: Recording

Hot Buttered Rum: New Album

June 18, 2009

THE ENDLESS TOUR CONTINUES IN SUPPORT OF THIRD LONG-PLAYER HBR - Las Tortugas '08 :: By Josh Miller After seven years of relentless touring, and two highly acclaimed studio albums, San Francisco's Hot Buttered Rum will release Limbs Akimbo, their third studio album, on September 8, 2009. The new tracks were produced by singer-songwriter Tim Bluhm ...

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News: Video / DVD

Drum! Magazine Writer/Publicist Sticks “Hip” to Legendary New Orleans Guitar Player Leo Nocentelli

June 18, 2009

Los Angeles – Josh Moscov, a writer/publicist for DRUM! Magazine as well as a drummer, has released a video, dedicated to New Orleans’ King Of Funk Guitar, Leo Nocentelli. Moscov, who has played with a number of New Orleans artists, based the video on a live gig that he had the opportunity to sit in with ...