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21 Oct 2010 09:16

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Music: Velvet Underground drummer Mo Tucker explains her politics

  • It drives me nuts to see that X millions are being allocated to build a turtle tunnel, a donkey museum, a salamander crossing, etc, etc, etc.
  • Former Velvet Underground Maureen “Mo” Tucker • Explaining why she showed up in a news clip as a bonafide Tea Party supporter. While we stand by the fact that she doesn’t have anything to explain, she did offer a little bit of insight to her political views to the St. Louis Riverfront Times. She claims to dislike the heavy spending of the Obama administration, although she’s a Democrat/independent who doesn’t think highly of George W. Bush or Sarah Palin, either. She also wants more oversight of social welfare programs and less spending on frivolous projects. “Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not a fool, a racist, a Nazi,” she wrote. “Anyone who knows me knows I’m afraid of flying, afraid of bugs, but not afraid to say what I think.” source
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18 Oct 2010 21:14

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Music: Kanye doesn’t understand why retailers don’t like his album cover

So Nirvana can have a naked human being on they cover but I can’t have a PAINTING of a monster with no arms and a polka dot tail and wingsMon Oct 18 03:02:27 via webKanye West
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  • So yeah, wow. The “banned” Kanye album for “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” has a cover so weird that we don’t think that we can post it here. But Pitchfork has it, so go over there and look at the painting of a monster with no arms and a polka dot tail and wings. source
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16 Oct 2010 20:33

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Music: Showoffs: Atomic Tom plays song using iPhones on NYC subway

  • Want to get attention for your music? Find a clever way to get noticed on YouTube. And make sure it involves iPhones. And possibly subway cars. That’s what the four dudes of NYC band Atomic Tom did, and it’s worked out pretty well for them in the last two days (200,000+ views). If we were these guys, we’d probably just ditch the instruments altogether and keep doing stuff like this, because they’re insanely good at it.
  • iPhones + Subway = awesome Our money is on these guys actually having their instruments and lying about it because it makes the whole thing a better story. That said, they seem waayyyyy too talented at their iPhone instruments. Clever marketing either way.
  • For comparison’s sake Here’s the same band playing the same song on NYC music show Fearless Music. As you’ll see, the iPhone version does a good job of getting very close to this even without the benefit of guitars or drums. Show-offs. source
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15 Oct 2010 21:26

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Music: T.I. headed back to jail, won’t be able to do whatever he likes

  • I screwed up big time and I am sorry. I am sincerely sorry. I am scared that you will send me to prison.
  • Rapper T.I. • Making a plea to the court to keep him out of jail. It didn’t work, and he was sentenced to 11 more months in the wake of drug charges in California. The rapper claims that he got re-addicted in the wake of a grueling tour schedule. He started taking cough syrup just to get by. It got him back on the harder stuff and eventually led to his latest arrest. This is bad: Part of his plea agreement involved him telling kids to stay off drugs. Still though, this is a pretty disappointing turn for a rapper who already lost a good chunk of his life to jail. source
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15 Oct 2010 20:57

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Music: Anyone ever notice how terrible Phish sounds, anyway?

  • We’ve never listened to Phish before, so if someone can explain the cult appeal of this band to us, we’d be forever grateful. Sincerely, SFB staff. (Thanks laughingsquid)
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13 Oct 2010 20:21

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Music: Live your life: T.I. talked a guy out of jumping to his death (wow)

  • T.I. just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
  • Atlanta Police spokesman James Polite • Explaining how rapper T.I., a.k.a. Clifford Harris, convinced a man on the rooftop of a 22-story Atlanta hotel not to jump. The rapper reportedly came out of nowhere in the middle of police negotiations with the man and talked the guy out of the jump. T.I., known for both his chart-topping success and for going to jail at the peak of his career, will face a judge this week and may possibly get his probation revoked over drug charges in Hollywood. Wow, that guy leads a busy life. source
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12 Oct 2010 11:12

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Music: Amoeba Records: Here’s a record store making bank despite itself

Why is this guy so happy? He runs Amoeba Records, one of the few successful record store chains in the country. His secret? He sells vinyl. source
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11 Oct 2010 23:18

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Music, Tech: By catering to majors, eMusic loses a simple, effective model

  • simple eMusic starts out with a basic, credits-based model which allows you to download tons of indie music each month.
  • busy To win over Sony and Warner Bros., they slightly modify the model to make full albums worth a little more.
  • complex To win over Universal, eMusic will charge a variety of different prices for different songs. This is a bad idea. source
  • » And credits are going away, too: To win Universal over, they’re going to have to charge 89 cents per track for some of their songs. While this is cheaper than iTunes, it’s also nearly twice as much as many of their other tracks. We don’t know what eMusic’s profitability is like, but this, to us, feels like it’s going to backfire. The changes are a little too extreme, and it no longer feels like they’re the cheap alternative. Can we lament the loss of eMusic (circa 2007) yet?
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09 Oct 2010 11:26

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Music: Yoko: John Lennon would TOTALLY use Twitter to protest war

  • 99% of the world is taking a stand against wars like Iraq and Afghanistan. John would have done that but he’d have loved the new communication media. He would have been writing statements and sending them out to the world as a blogger and a tweeter.
  • Yoko Ono • Suggesting that John Lennon, who would’ve been 70 today, would have used Twitter to protest the Iraq war. Dude did that silly bed-in thing to protest the Vietnam War, so why not? “When we did our bed-ins for peace against Vietnam the world just laughed at us,” she said. Ono, by the way, is getting up there – right now, she’s 77, though her interviewer says she doesn’t look a day over 50. Here’s the REAL question: Would Lennon put up with the crap over their albums not getting on iTunes? Seems like he wouldn’t. source
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08 Oct 2010 13:16

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Music: Fleet Foxes classic watered down for Spanish soccer commercial

  • That sounds familiar. We can’t quite place it. … it has that “one of the best indie-rock songs of the last decade” sound to it. Wait, did this company totally rip off Fleet Foxes and think that nobody would notice? Bastards. source
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