Music

Inside the Vamp-artment of Twilight's Edward Cullen, Buy It for $3.3M!

BY Tyler GrayFri Nov 20, 2009 at 11:18 AM

Must every facet of Twilight's sparkly-skinned lead vampire Edward be irresistible? He may be a blood chugger, but his interior design sense doesn't suck. The character's (played by Robert Pattinson) digs are featured prominently in ...READ»

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Hank Risan on BlueBeat's $20 Million Gamble...on 25-Cent Beatles Tracks?

BY Tyler GrayThu Nov 19, 2009 at 12:18 PM

Bluebeat founder Hank Risan says he sank $20 million into an effort to revolutionize digital music delivery. But he flushed it all the day he offered Beatles tracks for a quarter a pop, a judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge John ...READ»

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Vitamin Water and 50 Cent Launch iPhone App

BY Anne C. LeeTue Nov 17, 2009 at 6:08 PM

Four months after Soulja Boy got his iPhone app--which let users remix his songs--50 Cent gets his, dubbed "50's Sound Lab." Only 50 Cent's app is part of a marketing campaign for Vitamin Water. Like Soulja Boy's remixer, the ...READ»

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Twucked Up Twit in Social Media

BY Mary McKnightTue Nov 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM

With over 6K people calling themselves everything from “Social Media Guru” to ” Social Media Super Hero” I’m just gonna call it like it is. 90% of you are full of crap and have no idea what social media is or where it’s place is in an overall marketing plan and are generally spouting personal dogma and there is a high likelihood you are socially retarded.READ»

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7-Eleven House Wine Taste Test: My Mom Takes a Spin Down Yosemite Road

BY Tyler GrayMon Nov 9, 2009 at 6:23 PM

I don't know about the chardonnay, but if Yosemite Road Cabernet, 7-Eleven's house brand, were a song, it'd be "Red, Red Wine." Not Neil Diamond's original. Or even Tony Tribe's excellent rocksteady version. It'd be the UB40 cover, ...READ»

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BlueBeat's Hank Risan: That's Not the Beatles, It's a "Virtual Cover Band"

BY Tyler GraySat Nov 7, 2009 at 12:04 AM

If you thought that was AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles you streamed for free or downloaded this week for $.25 from BlueBeat.com, it's an understandable error. The music sounded identical to songs by those artists. ...READ»

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'30 Rock' Ends Product Placement Speculation, Writes Cisco Into Last Night's Episode

BY Tyler GrayFri Nov 6, 2009 at 7:13 AM

Cisco got one hell of a pitch man in Jack Donaghy. Last night's 30 Rock wasn't just notable for the its usual cavalcade of shenanigans, or even the NBC in-house fun-poking (Brian Williams as a stand-up comic? Jack saying something ...READ»

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Beatles Label EMI Slaps Former Huffington Post Blogger, BlueBeat Owner With Federal Lawsuit

BY Tyler GrayWed Nov 4, 2009 at 12:17 PM

Get your Beatles downloads from BlueBeat.com while they're hot--as in stolen, according to a federal copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the site and its owner by EMI records, which distributes the Beatles music, in Los ...READ»

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Digital Music Arms Race: MSN Joins the Fray

BY Kit EatonWed Nov 4, 2009 at 11:09 AM

The arms race to lure music-loving clients is heating up at the moment: First Google gets a music service, and now MSN does too. MSN's download service launches tomorrow, and Microsoft's schmoozed all four big record labels to help it ...READ»

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Weezer Snuggie: Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Marketing Since the ELO Hockey Puck

BY Tyler GrayTue Nov 3, 2009 at 10:09 AM

For $30, the blue Weezer Snuggie--$50 for the "Snuggie Safari"--comes with a copy of the band's new album, "Raditude."READ»

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BlueBeat Defiantly Selling Beatles, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin Right Now for Cheap

BY Tyler GrayFri Oct 30, 2009 at 12:52 PM

Download site BlueBeat seems to have looked squarely in the eye of litigious record label legal eagles and various judges who've sided with them--then figuratively dropped trou and shot 'em a moon.READ»

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MSN May Get MySpace Music Service to Rival Google's

BY Chris DannenTue Oct 27, 2009 at 2:42 PM

Microsoft is talking to MySpace about a music partnership, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal may mean a leap-frog in popularity for MSN's music portal. MySpace's music site is second only to AOL's with 27 million ...READ»

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How to Stream Your Music From Mac to Anywhere

BY Chris DannenTue Oct 20, 2009 at 4:21 PM

Apple's new Mac Mini now ships with server software, but Apple's suggested uses are vanilla. With 1TB of storage and plenty of power, let's put it to good use and stream some music and movies over the Intertubes. Snow Leopard ...READ»

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Sir Groovy Offers Fast-Track Music Licensing for TV and Movie Producers

BY Chris DannenFri Oct 16, 2009 at 12:34 PM

Sir Groovy, a just-launched iTunes-like music store, lets TV and movie producers browse a library of pre-approved songs they can license and use in their media. Instead of first choosing a song and then securing a license to use it, ...READ»

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What 'Splatter' Means for the Future of Netflix

BY Tyler GrayFri Oct 16, 2009 at 7:11 AM

We learned yesterday that Netflix is partnering with legendary low-budget filmmaker Roger Corman to produce online miniseries Splatter. And viewers get to vote on which characters live or die on the episodes, which premiere Oct. ...READ»

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Rap Maps: Plotting Jay-Z's 'Empire State of Mind' on Google

BY Tyler GrayTue Oct 13, 2009 at 11:21 AM

Follow the path of Jay-Z, as outlined in his song "Empire State of Mind."READ»

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Paranormal Activity Tears a Page From the Blair Witch Playbook

BY Tyler GrayMon Oct 12, 2009 at 3:15 PM

Before the producers of the ultra-low-budget pants-wetter Paranormal Activity launched a Web campaign asking moviegoers to demand to see the film in their towns, they communed with the producers of the mother of all virally marketed ...READ»

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iTunes' Hefty Fee Locks Out Indie Label LPs

BY Chris DannenMon Oct 12, 2009 at 1:47 PM

When Apple announced its multimedia album packages, dubbed iTunes LPs, some hailed it as the return of the album-as-object. But some indie labels who've tried to create their own LPs on iTunes are dismayed over the $10,000 production ...READ»

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Fast Feed: @TracyMorgan?

BY Tyler GrayWed Oct 7, 2009 at 2:58 PM

Twitter's good. It'd be great if Tracy Morgan, who already speaks in Tweets, joined. Twacy.org founder Hugh Dornbush wants to petition the 30 Rock star to do just that. He's also using the hilarious concept to virally promote his mobile celebrity stalking app, omgicu. Here's Hugh...READ»

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DoubleTwist, the Anti-iTunes, Teams Up With Amazon

BY Chris DannenWed Oct 7, 2009 at 12:27 PM

DoubleTwist, a fantastic little alternative to iTunes, has just become a big alternative. The Mac app is no longer just a stand-in library app: it now features music buying courtesy of Amazon, and lets you sync that music to pretty ...READ»

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Will Fans Pay Public Enemy to Make a New Album or Just Buy Old Hits on CD?

BY Tyler GrayWed Oct 7, 2009 at 6:53 AM

Rap Group Public Enemy is upending the major-label record deal routine by asking fans to finance its new album through Dutch company SellaBand. Meanwhile, Def Jam is re-releasing five discs worth of classic hits from P.E. and others in a plastic milk crate.READ»

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How Led Zeppelin Changed the Music Business [Slideshow]

BY Noah RobischonFri Oct 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM

Led Zeppelin gave meaning to the term "rock star," and changed the music business forever. In Led Zeppelin: Good Times, Bad Times, A Visual Biography of the Ultimate Band, the lives of the members of the quintessential rock band are documented and captured from their Denmark debut in 1968 to their last performance in London 2007. READ»

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Three Technologies That Are Helping to Save the Music Biz

BY Kit EatonTue Sep 29, 2009 at 9:00 AM

The music biz has gone from fighting the trend of increasing technological involvement in how its product reaches the public to a tentative embrace. We're all familiar with the RIAA legal abuses of music pirates, the tussle between ...READ»

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Behind the Apple-Eminem Feud

BY Chris DannenThu Sep 24, 2009 at 11:27 AM

We wrote about Eminem's dispute with Apple yesterday. Now we've learned that Eminem is seeking $16 million in damages from Apple for selling his tracks without proper authorization, according to court documents. But Eminem made money ...READ»

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