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• Ten Years of Flying Lotus... Mixed by Gaslamp Killer... Download it here...
  Flying Lotus via Brainfeeder Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone as we’re approaching this new year, I felt it was time to let go of some things that have been gathering dust. Some old things, and some new things, I tried to pick out tracks that I know yall haven’t heard yet so there should be surprises around every turn. can’t believe i’ve been m […]
• Vic Chesnutt Tributes From Michael Stipe, Patti Smith, Fugazi's Guy Picciotto, Jeff Mangum...
  REM HQ: “I flew around a little room once.” A line from Supernatural. He was just that. He possessed an unearthly energy and yet was humanistic with the common man in mind. He was entirely present and entirely somewhere else. A mystical somewhere else. A child and an old guy as he called himself. Before he made an album he said he was a bum. Now […]
• Kristin Hersh's Vic Chesnutt Tribute & Family Donation Page...
  Kristin Hersh’s Vic Chesnutt Family Donation Page/Tribute: Vic Chesnutt This page is a tribute to Vic Chesnutt – here to accept donations on behalf of his family to defray the expenses associated with his recent hospitalizations and death. 100% of all funds raised will go to Vic’s family. What this man was capable of was superhuman. Vic was […]
• Hear WFMU's Xmas Music From Before 1929...
  WFMU‘S Antique Phonograph Music Program: > Playlist for December 22, 2009, Featuring Recordings from Contributor Ed Ferraro Show On Every Tuesday evening, 7pm to 8pm, 78s and cylinders are played on actual period reproducing devices. Title Artist Recording Comments Christmas Message, Louis William Charday Columbia? Disc 1929 personal recording Santa […]
• Can Pop Music Survive Without a Mass Market Or Mass Profits?...
  Ours is a time of fundamental shifts in the way music is made, sold and experienced, and music’s value—as art and commodity—has never seemed more arbitrary and harder to assign. Thanks to the upswing in file-sharing and other ways of obtaining music in digital formats, album sales are measly and unreliable in terms of profit margin. Ten yea […]
• The Decade In Genre Hype: From Hyphy and Freak Folk To Grime And Hipster Metal...
  If Spin was right to name “Your Hard Drive” the best album of 2000, we’d like to formally nominate “The Internet” as Most Unforgiving Asshole of the 2000s. As of ‘09, bands have an official life span of about nine months dating from the launch of their MySpace pages, thanks to the comically accelerated, DSL-enhanced hype c […]
• Vic Chesnutt, 1964-2009, Rest In Peace
  Constellation Records Statement: Surrounded by family and friends, Vic Chesnutt died in Athens Georgia this afternoon, Friday 25 December at 14:59. In the few short years that we knew him personally, Vic transformed our sense of what true character, grace and determination are all about. Our grief is inexpressible and Vic’s absence unfathomable. We will make […]
• Chris 'Spacewolf' Feinstein, Session Player and Cardinals' Bassist, Dies at 42...
  NME: Chris “Spacewolf” Feinstein,from Ryan Adams’ former band The Cardinals has died. The bassist passed away on Monday (December 14) at the age of 42. His cause of death yet to be confirmed. Feinstein was a member of Ryan Adams & the Cardinals during their final albums, appearing on ‘Easy Tiger’, ‘Follow The Lights […]
• Some of the 'Best Branded' Music-Related iPhone Apps of the Year...
  Music Ally: 2009 was the year of the App Store, as Apple passed the two-billion downloads milestone for its store, which now has more than 100,000 apps available. The year also saw labels and artists jumping onto the bandwagon with their own branded iPhone apps. The most successful, like Smule’s I Am T-Pain (pictured right) sold tens of thousands of copies a […]
• Jimi Hendrix's 'Lost' Weekend Subject of New Documentary...
  The Rock Doctor: ‘Slide’ will be about the alleged hoax kidnapping of the guitarist A new film about Jimi Hendrix is set to be made called Slide. The drama will document Hendrix’s legendary “lost weekend” in September 1969, where he was apparently the subject of a hoax kidnapping, orchestrated by his manager. “While we hav […]