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Sean “Diddy” Combs Launching Cable Music Network
Feb 22While the details remain unclear, Sean “Diddy” Combs has announced partnership with Comcast on a new cable network aiming to revolutionize music programming. Diddy claims the music culture network, called Revolt, will allow viewers to engage through social media outlets and invited other cable service providers to “get down with the get down”. Are we getting another MTV or will the man known for experience in traditional entertainment stay true to his word? -Sean (PC Mag) Comcast...
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Metric Announce New Album
Feb 22Photo by Justin Broadbent Metric have announced the full-length follow-up to 2009's Fantasies, titled Synthetica. The record will be self-released on June 12, and issued as a joint release with Mom + Pop in the U.S.
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Mount Eerie to Release Two New Albums This Year
Feb 22Phil Elverum (aka Mount Eerie) has announced two new albums for his post-Microphones project, to be released this year. The first, Clear Moon, will be out May 22 via Elverum's own label P.W. Elverum and Sun, followed by its companion record Ocean Roar later this year.
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Is Your Ambition Greater Than Your Ability?
Feb 22Do you ever get frustrated that your ambition is greater than your ability? Does that song in your head sound far better than what you just recorded? Is the painting you envisioned far grander than the oil you just committed to canvas? Are you unable to communicate the thoughts in your mind into cohesive prose? It happens to all of us. What sets the good apart from the great is hard work, tenacity, perseverance and a determined focus on knowing that you will eventually get there. But...
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Listen: Gorillaz/James Murphy/André 3000: "DoYaThing"
Feb 22Gorillaz, James Murphy, and André 3000 have teamed up for a new song called "DoYaThing" for the Converse series "Three Artists, One Song". It's up for download tomorrow on the Converse website; listen to a radio rip at Listen Before You Buy from Zane Lowe's radio show now.
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Turing Machine Return With New Album Featuring Late Drummer Jerry Fuchs' Last Work
Feb 22Following an eight-year hiatus, Turing Machine will release a new record called What Is the Meaning of What on May 8 through Temporary Residence. It's their first album since 2004's Zwei.
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Watch Devendra Banhart Perform New Material
Feb 22Chilean culture site Paniko points to this video of Devendra Banhart at a recent performance in Chile. Banhart, who hasn't put out a record since 2009's disappointing What Will We Be, seems to be gearing up for a new iteration of his career that includes a short haircut!
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Ethan Kaplan: Culture Is A Product
Feb 22Guest post by former Warner Bros. Records digital exec Ethan Kaplan of Live Nation Labs. He blogs at Black Rim Glasses. A year ago I walked out of the Warner Bros. Records building, put a box in my car and drove home. I left with a collection of memories, but also a sense of unfinished business that I intended to keep in mind when I started my next venture. When it started becoming apparent what my next venture would be, I sat down and started writing. I proposed this question to...
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Marketing your Band’s College Show
Feb 22Marketing your college show is no easy A (pun intended). Though there are thousands of students with all sorts of personalities, interests, and characteristics, a college campus can be an easy place to get lost in the mix. So you’re in a band, and you’re living in an area that is accessible to colleges and their students. It shouldn’t be that hard to book a show at one of these higher learning institutions’ on-campus venues and sell it out, right? WRONG. Well, sort of wrong. Marketing...
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No New At the Drive-In Music, Sorry
Feb 22This At the Drive-In station is now operational... sort of. In recent interviews, guitarist Omar Rodriguez-López has explained that the newly-revived ATDI will not record any new music, and that the reunion is mostly about nostalgia and money. Three cheers for honesty. "We're not getting any younger and there's been an offer of money every year," he told NME. "You'd be a fool and a politician to pretend that wasn't part of it."
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