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  • 6 Reasons To Attend CES 2013

    Jan 8

    By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. It’s easy to make fun of CES, as we found out when we announced our excitement at not attending it in 2012. Now, even stalwart, general technology reporters like the New York Times’ David Pogue are getting in on the act, questioning whether we really need to watch a bunch of shiny new hardware unveiled for 2013 — especially when we already have pretty good rectangular touchscreens for delivering apps, text, video, and music to us, wherever we are, just fine,...

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  • Pitchfork.tv Seeks Interns in New York City

    Jan 8

    Illustration by David Sparshott If you are a fast, efficient, New York-based video editor and/or film major with Final Cut experience (After Effects doesn't hurt either), available two days a week during business hours, apply for a video-editing internship with Pitchfork.tv. The position involves providing creative and archival assistance to our editors, including ingestion, transcription, creating selects reels, rough edits, and exports as needed. Candidates must have multi-clip editing...

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  • BMG Rejoins With Sony For Parlophone Records Bid

    Jan 8

    Sony Music is again partnering with Bertelsmann's BMG, this time in a bid for Parlophone Records and a number of other EMI properties put on the block by Universal Music. Parlophone is one of the crown jewels from EMI and the label has a roster that features artists such as Coldplay, David Guetta, The Beastie Boys, Lady Antebellum and Sigur Ros. The two companies had jointly owned the major music group Sony BMG from 2002-2008. According to the Financial Times, they are now hoping hoping...

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  • AM NEWS BRIEF: EMI Layoffs, Amazon Soars, Dylan Release Skirts EU Copyright, Bowie's Back & More

    Jan 8

    Tuesday 1.8.2013 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web Click Here Updated 24/7/365 Under Hypbot's More News Tab

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  • Free eBook: Quick Fix! 12 Ways To Instantly Improve Your Band Website

    Jan 8

    During the last few years musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle have reviewed thousands of musician websites, and often, the same issues come up over and over again. So they’ve released a free eBook called “Quick Fix! 12 Ways to Instantly Improve Your Band Website“. Having the tech tools at your disposal is only one step in making an amazing website. How you design it, how you organize the content, and the content itself are key to building a site that will impress new...

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  • Major Lazer Announce "Free the Universe" World Tour, Including Dates With Angel Haze

    Jan 8

    Major Lazer's new album, Free the Universe, is due on February 19 via Mad Decent/Downtown. Last month, they announced the tracklist and guests-- including Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, Santigold, Dirty Projectors' Amber Coffman, and Danielle from Haim-- and now there's a tour to boot. The "Free the Universe" world tour will feature supports from Dragonet, Angel Haze, and Lunice-- see below for precise support details, and watch the video for "Jah No Partial", which should give you some idea...

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  • Watch Sky Ferriera Make Her Television Debut on "Fallon"

    Jan 8

    Sky Ferreira made her television debut last night, performing "Everything is Embarrassing" on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon", with backing from the Roots. Check out the performance (and Fallon's fresh pencil 'tache) below, followed by the new video for "Lost in My Bedroom". "Lost in My Bedroom:

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  • Major Lazer Announce "Free the Universe" World Tour

    Jan 8

    Major Lazer's new album, Free the Universe, is due on February 19 via Mad Decent/Downtown. Last month, they announced the tracklist and guests-- including Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, Santigold, Dirty Projectors' Amber Coffman, and Danielle from Haim-- and now there's a tour to boot. The "Free the Universe" world tour will feature supports from Dragonet, Angel Haze, and Lunice-- see below for precise support details, and watch the video for "Jah No Partial", which should give you some idea...

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  • David Bowie Announces New Album, The Next Day, Releases Single, Video, Turns 66

    Jan 8

    Here's some tremendous news to wake up to: David Bowie is to release his first album in nearly a decade. The Next Day, his 30th studio recording, is out in March, and is preceded by a single that you can hear right now! Watch the video for "Where Are We Now?" below. (It's available to purchase on iTunes now too.) Bowie turns 66 years old today: Happy ruddy Birthday indeed. The album was produced by Tony Visconti and written by Bowie in New York, according to his label, Columbia....

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  • Iceage Share New Track, Announce Tour

    Jan 7

    Photo by Pooneh Ghana Iceage: "Coalition" Iceage's new album, You're Nothing, is out February 19 via Matador/Escho. They've now shared the first track from the record, "Coalition", via their blog. You're Nothing is the follow-up to 2011's brilliant debut New Brigade. The band has also announced an expansive tour, with dates in Europe, the U.S., and Canada with Merchandise, White Lung, Milk Music, Wet Hair, and more, plus an appearance at June's Chaos in Tejas festival. The tour...

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