February 2009
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WatchMaking of My Chemical Romance’s ‘Desolation Row’ Video
This is just adorable.
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Ticketmaster & TicketsNow - oops they did it...
Ticketmaster slammed again over early sale of Leonard Cohen tickets
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | 12:20 PM ET
CBC News
More complaints are surfacing about Ticketmaster, this time about inflated ticket prices for Leonard Cohen’s upcoming concerts in Canada.
Ticketmaster’s website says tickets don’t go on sale until Wednesday for most Canadian dates, but the...
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“The fact is that the music industry’s revenues have been artificially inflated...”
– How To Kill The Music Industry via Torrentfreak
I could care less if a bunch of executives lose their jobs over this shift in entertainment options and spending. My only concern is how all of this will impact the artists. Not the big ones, they’re pretty well set and will have enough of a...
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Read & Watch the Live Nation-Ticketmaster...
Image by Getty Images via Daylife C-SPAN Video - Just under two hours of streaming video from the subcommittee’s Tuesday (Feb 24th) antitrust hearing on the Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger
Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights - Here is the main page for the Senate’s information on the antitrust hearings. You can access specific...
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My Chemical Romance Twitter Chats
michaeljamesway: I think somebody just Tokyo-drifted past me bobbryar: Master p gerardway: Maybe it was Tokio Hotel bobbryar: Can you make a powerpoint presentation about it?
They’re just so completely, hilariously, dorktastic.
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WatchVideo: Wrong by Depeche Mode
I find myself liking the song quite a bit. The video is seriously disturbing though. And if you have car accident triggers I’d stay away from it. Nevertheless, it’s quite impressive!
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Why Live Nation merging with Ticketmaster is a...
“Vertical integration on steroids” is how Jerry Mickelson, chairman of Chicago-based Jam Productions, characterized the plan to merge the nation’s largest concert promoter and ticketing agency. “This merger is much larger than just the ticketing business,” he warned. It could “monopolize the entire music industry,” because the two entities manage or have business agreements covering all...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-22) →
Fall Out Boy (270)
Panic at the Disco (224)
Black Gold (149)
Lily Allen (30)
People in Planes (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
So Lily Allen was still holding on to my attention from her debut the week before. And People In Planes as well. But, of course, the big shocker is Black Gold. Finding their album, which was made easier by the fact that Eric works with Panic...
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I'm Such A Child of the 70s
When I woke up today there was an infomercial on, some mega collection of cds of 70s music. And one of the songs they played was Danny’s Song, which apparently I have some emotional connection with because when I looked it up on Seeqpod and played it, I promptly burst into tears.
Anne Murray - Danny’s Song
People smile and tell me I’m the lucky one
And we’ve just...
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The science of selling out - BBC article →
Article discussing “selling out” and how fans’ feelings about it may have changed from one generation to another. I’ve got a meta/rant about this concept.
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Reviewing as Done by Me
My reviews are a mix of: feedback that I might (in some alternate universe) give to the artists directly, recommendation/pimping that I would use to lure my friends into joining me in the fun, literary analysis of the lyrics - because I cannot stop being a word nerd not even when I try, and silly personal anecdotes. And I am not a music aficionado or audiophile. I’m just a fan who has...
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Rush by Black Gold - Review
Rush by Black Gold
Black Gold has a terrific website where you can preview a few of their songs as well as watch their two music videos, a couple of other video things they’ve done and get all the lyrics for this album. Detroit - previously discussed here. I’ve listened to it many times since I first got it, and I really like it. The chorus just stays with me, pops up in my head...
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It's Not Me, It's You by Lily Allen - Review
It’s Not Me, It’s You [Explicit] by Lily Allen
I bought Lily’s first album back in 2007 when I first got back into music again. I love how she sings with her accent. And how her vicious lyrics are juxtaposed with happy music. She continues that format on the new album, but she’s improved her lyrics and there is more variation in the music from song to song.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-15) →
Fall Out Boy (346)
Panic at the Disco (160)
The Academy Is… (106)
My Chemical Romance (91)
Lily Allen (75)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Lily Allen’s new album debuted this week, and frankly I loved it. There were a few songs that sucked, so I tended to skip them when I put the album on repeat.
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Beating someone is okay if you 'feel bad' when you...
Chris Brown’s father says the R & B star is remorseful following his arrest on suspicion of attacking a woman widely believed to be pop star Rihanna
- source
Sure he caused severe physical injury and a probably not an inconsiderable amount of psychological/emotional trauma, but he “feels bad” about it. So it’s all okay now, right? Because he’ll totally never...
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How to complain to the FTC about Live...
As you may have heard Live Nation and Ticketmaster are about to merge in order to better rip off fans and artists. The new company is called Live Nation Entertainment.
Wired has a lot of good information about this nightmare. A good summary of it is: The combined entity will control aspects of booking, promotion, primary ticket sales, secondary (fan-to-fan, or scalped) ticket sales,...
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New Wave - the sounds of my youth
I woke up way too early yesterday and caught VH1’s New Wave One Hit Wonders episode. Started about five minutes into it so I probably missed the first song/video, but here are the rest and my thoughts on them: Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star [youtube] [seeqpod]
I like the song quite a bit. Can’t listen to it too often because it gets repetitive, but it’s got nice...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-8) →
Fall Out Boy (414)
Panic at the Disco (150)
My Chemical Romance (118)
The Academy Is… (68)
Empires (17)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Pretty standard week for me, core bands at the top with one of the up-and-coming satellite bands (ie: containing a previous member of one of the core bands) to round it out.
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I watched the Grammys...
Watched, mind you, not listened. And I only did that much because Tom DeLong, Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus were going to be presenting. And you know, I’ve never even really been a fan of Blink-182. The few songs of theirs that I have heard I did enjoy, but since they came out when I was in musical exile it didn’t make much of an impression. BUT because they’re friends with...
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Watchcharlottesometimes: Just Enough video
Adam and I got together this late afternoon and split some wine and wrote this song. I hope you like it!
Check out his band The Royal Chains myspace.com/theroyalchains
xoxo
Charlotte
Charlotte’s singing voice is really interesting. It’s not ‘perfect’ but it has all this character and emotion. I love her style and her lyrics...
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Folie à Deux Review, Part 5
Folie à Deux Review, Part 5
Folie à Deux Review One
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Four
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This actually took two nights to do. I took out like two herds of teal deers talking about 20 Dollar Nose Bleed. Oops!
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12 - 20 Dollar Nose Bleed
So here it is, my favorite song on the album. It has 5 things that make it the incontrovertible winner: 1) brilliant fucking lyrics, 2) Patrick’s falsetto...
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WatchVideo: Chameleon guitar mimics many axes - via New Scientist
Dude, that’s just really cool. So much neat stuff comes out of MIT.
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It's Not Me, It's You by Lily Allen - first...
Image via Wikipedia
Lily Allen’s next album It’s Not Me, It’s You is available for streaming on her myspace page (music autoplays).
I’d already heard The Fear and Everyone’s At It and quite liked them. But they sounded very similar musically, so I was kind of worried about the way the rest of the album was going to sound. Happily, there is some real variety in...
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Folie à Deux Review, Part 4
Folie à Deux Review One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Nearly done! I didn’t mean for this to go so long, but there’s a lot in each song and I just can’t rush it.
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09 - 27
This is my second favorite song on the album! *glee* The very first line, of course, just grabbed me. What can I say, I’m a cynic and misanthrope. I don’t actually think this song...
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Panic ftw \o/
weresoblogging:
It’s been a while since I’ve seen, or played music with the guys so we had quite a glorious reunion. Jon filled me in on snow-football in the backyard while Brendon, Spencer and I filled him in on 75 degree sun and fun in California. As of now I live in Brendon’s guest room on a very small and uncomfortable air mattress. So does Spence but I think he has some sort of deluxe...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-1) →
Fall Out Boy (456)
My Chemical Romance (273)
Panic at the Disco (181)
Blaqk Audio (14)
Muse (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Muse and Blaqk Audio really satisfy my synth/prog rock leanings. I wasn’t the happiest this week, though.
