June 2012
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If you’re the RZA (YOU WISH) and you want to make life super easy on yourself as you attempt your directorial debut, be sure to include the following people in your film project:
Lucy Liu
Kanye West
Russell Crowe
Wiz Khalifa
The Black Keys
Wu-Tang Clan
Seriously, have you ever seen a list of more universally watchable/listenable people?
Throw in lots of gratuitous violence, kung-fu,...
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The Top 100 Must-Follow Music Resources on...
You know who we love? The DIY Musician blog. More specifically, a multi-part list they’ve been issuing of must-know organizations, websites, and resources for artists. Below is part 4 of the series, which specifically addresses good folks to follow on Twitter to bolster your professional musical efforts. Annnnd since we’re basically social media junkies, we like it. You will too.
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Cruel Slander: The Best of Kanye’s Weird Antics
If I had to pick a “Top Ten Things I Love About The Music Industry Today” (and now that I’ve mentioned it, I obviously will have to write that), a lot of pretty frivolous things would be on it: the feeling of utter fear I feel when I see Madonna’s arm veins, the idea of Robin Thicke’s baby messing up his hair, the way John Mayer is slowly turning into the non-hot, latter day version of...
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Even scientists know that nothing good comes from... →
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The Digital Catch-22 of Music and Social Media
From my guest post on the awesome Conf140 blog. Click here to see it in action.
These days, instead of throwing themselves loss-first into a bottle of bourbon, music industry professionals are trying to harness the power of the same beast that brought them down. The current approach to the digitization of consumerism is more optimistic: if you can’t beat ‘em, figure out how to make ‘em work for...
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It seems the only thing that exists on the internet this morning is Fiona Apple, her new album When the Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Chords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (which you can stream at NPR right now), and the video for her new single “Every Single Night”, directed by the perennially weird Joseph Cahill. It’s all very...
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Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor was on The Colbert Report last night where she played “Small Town Moon” from her latest album, What We Saw from the Cheap Seats.
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Music Savage: Mixtape | Maybe, Maybe Not →
This looks lovely and enjoyable for your weekend.
musicsavage:
This is the May 2012 mixtape, Maybe, Maybe Not. They are all my favorite songs from this month, and span a lot of genres, & influences. I think you’ll like every song. And, by popular demand, I’m offering the full stream of the mixtape so you can listen to it through the browser….
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