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With not a whole lot of rumor or speculation, the fate of the American Idol Songwriter contest for 2008 was [...]
Holy @#$%! Barack Obama’s gonna be on my street tomorrow! #
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AMERICAN IDOL: Top 11
How to Have a Conversation, or Tell Me About Me
Forget the Movie, Go To A Concert
Good comment: Pipenta, on artists and drugs
Idol Banter: Guitars Gently Weep
‘Idol’ Tracker: Archuleta de Triumph
Protect Yourself Against Energy Vampires
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Jim Fusilli offers a great write-up of his experience last week in Austin, where Daniel Auerbach from the Black Keys tells him that SXSW “has morphed into something else.”
Twenty-one years after the first festival, it’s now an overstuffed parade of big names who don’t need the gig, successful touring bands that are compelled to play [...]
I just saw an ad for the C&C Mattress Factory and wondered if their products are gonna make me sweat. #
@andymatic That is awesome news! Did you guys grab one of those neat, new townhomes over by the CalTrain station? Yer in a wicked cool hood. #
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I’ve been wanting to write some new articles about booking concerts. It seems like we’re in another cycle where folks ask me questions like, “now that we have Twitter and Facebook, it should be totally easy to find a booking agent, right?” (Three years ago, it was, “now that we have MySpace…” Before that, it [...]
Looking for some dashboard widgets to make Twitter posting faster. #
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Many of my friends and colleagues have gravitated into the country music space over the past few years. It makes sense, given that Nashville is probably the last stronghold of the traditional music business model that relies on teams of writers, producers, artists, and marketers to make things happen. In so many ways, country is [...]
Ashley Dupre makes $204,000 from Web music sales [Jackpot]
A word to the press: fight for the public’s right to know
Would You Pay a Fee for Legal Music File Sharing? - Washington Post
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It’s tough enough to be a record executive these days. Your budget’s shrinking, your staff keep leaving to join tech startups, and you keep having to figure out which one of your interns is the one who’s leaking your biggest acts rough mixes to BitTorrent.
At least you always had SXSW to look forward to, right?
Apparently, [...]
