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Scott Walker Curates Film Series
Dec 7Curzon Cinemas, a London art-house film organization, has solicited Scott Walker to program a mini-season of its On Demand content. Walker has chosen ten of his favorite films to be made available in the coming months. "Though this choice hardly represents a definitive list of my all time favourite films and is conditionally drawn from the Curzon’s embarrassingly impressive catalogue, it nevertheless contains some unmissable glories and current works that have impressed," Walker writes on the...
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Watch Chapter 33, The Final New Chapter of R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet"
Dec 7Sadly, we've come to chapter 33, the last of the new chapters from R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet". In the epic conclusion, Sylvester (R. Kelly) and Twan encounter the gangster Beeno (also R. Kelly). Guns are drawn, there's a big chase scene, and Kellz sings an elaborate set of directions. Watch all of the other chapters here. Read our account of the premiere of the new chapters of "Trapped in the Closet" here.
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The DIY Daily Podcast #268 - December 7, 2012
Dec 7Today's Topics: The Myth of Ownership + 9 Reasons You're Stuck Where You Are Listen and/or Download here: Today's Featured Song of the Week is "Get Where Your Heart Is", a collaboration from Headwater and Dominique Fricot. Download this song for free, and others, from the Love and Bravery compilation at: www.peakperformanceproject.com.
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The Residents Release $100,000 Box Set
Dec 7Are you a giant fan of the Residents with $100K burning a hole in your pocket? Here's just the thing for you! The eyeball mask-sporting anonymous San Francisco art rockers are celebrating their 40th anniversary of their debut single "Santa Dog" with something called the Ultimate Box Set, as SPIN points out. It's... unconventional, to say the least. For starters, it's a packaged in a refrigerator, which contains over 100 Residents-related items, including every album on vinyl and CD, every...
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Moment.me Gathers Event Pics, Videos & Tweets From All Over
Dec 7By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. At first blush, Moment.me struck us as one of those startups we’re not supposed to cry for. People already spend seemingly every waking minute updating their stati and taking sepia-toned pictures of their feet. Do we really need another social network — especially one that doesn’t add anything new, but simply piggybacks on top of all the other ones to give us another way to waste yet more time on the same stuff? Well, yes. Until the world evolves...
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Live Nation Labs: One Year Later [Interview with Co-Founder Eric Garland]
Dec 7In the wake of LiveNation.com’s recent relaunch and the coming of a new year, Hypebot felt it was important to check up with one of the most innovative and potentially disruptive forces brewing within the music and tech sector: Live Nation Labs. Lead by the entrepreneurial minds of Eric Garland and Ethan Kaplan, Labs aims to foster innovation within the ticketing and promotions superpower. The pair has been chosen to steer the ship of Live Nation’s web and mobile product development efforts and...
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R.I.P. Bay Area Punk Fixture Sarah Kirsch
Dec 7Sarah Kirsch, a staple of the Bay Area punk scene and a member of bands like Pinhead Gunpowder (which also featured Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong), Fuel, Fifteen, Torches to Rome, and more, died earlier this week, the Daily Swarm points out. She suffered from a rare genetic disease called Fanconi Anemia, which often causes leukemia and other forms of cancer. According to SF Weekly, she was 42. Kirsch was known as Mike Kirsch before coming out as transsexual. MaximumRocknRoll has...
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Musicians, Don’t Provide a Crappy Experience!
Dec 7CD Baby president Brian Felsen interviewed Scott Perry (of Sperry Media and New Music Tipsheet) at the Bandwidth Music & Technology Conference about how bands can monetize their fan experience, how QR codes have fallen short, bundling your merch, music discovery, and more. In this clip, he talks about how artists and promoters must earn every dollar they make by delivering an unforgettable experience. A bad experience means you could lose a true fan for life. So no phoning it in; give it...
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CD Baby Milestone: $250M Paid To Indie Musicians
Dec 7CD Baby, founded as a backroom enterprise by Derek Sivers and sold to DiscMakers in 2008, announced that it has paid out over $250 million to artists for digital download sales, on-demand streaming revenue, physical CD sales, and sync licensing royalties. $50 million was paid in this year alone. “For years, we’ve been paying musicians every single Monday,” says CD Baby president Brian Felsen. “but to have hit the 250 million mark for payouts - that’s a big achievement for the artists who...
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CD Baby Milestone: $250 Million Paid To Indie Musicians
Dec 7CD Baby, founded as a backroom enterprise by Derek Sivers and sold to DiscMakers in 2008, announced that it has paid out over $250 million to artists for digital download sales, on-demand streaming revenue, physical CD sales, and sync licensing royalties. $50 million was paid in this year alone. “For years, we’ve been paying musicians every single Monday,” says CD Baby president Brian Felsen. “but to have hit the 250 million mark for payouts - that’s a big achievement for the artists who...
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