THE DEVIL STOLE THE BEAT

Latest competitor to digital distro vendor Tunecore, minus the sign-up fees.

Ian Rogers’ spot on analysis-via-open letter to EMI bigwig Guy Hands. Now if we could get dude to actually pay attention…

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Free Slick Rick! Legendary rapper pardoned by NY’s newest Governor David Paterson in effort to prevent his exposure to fish, chips & bad grills. Thx for touching that ‘escort’ Spitzer! (via The Daily Swarm)

link Greg Would Be Damn Proud.

For those of you that never had the chance to know Gregory Dean Smalley, be sure of one thing…he’d be mighty proud of this year’s Bubbapalooza lineup. (via CL)

link Worthy Read

What do you do when cd’s don’t sell. In other news, please kill us now as TDSTB has resorted to reading Rolling Stone for news.

link Resource: Soundindex

From the BBC. Every six hours the Sound Index crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet - Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube - to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. Long Live The Queen.

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Good bands play on Party Mountain all the time. When No Age played they were so good that Party Mountain started on fire. That was, like, four years ago though. (via Buddyhead)

link Resource: iStockphoto Adds Royalty Free Music

Stock photo site takes a page out of the Getty/Pump Audio playbook (via Mashable)

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Know your history. Ian Mackaye Q&A. (via Crazed Hits)

link Don't Do This.

The Guardian teaches us all how to go from hero to zero. (via Idolator)

link Resource: IODA White Label Download Store

Digital distro partners to allow easily created download solutions for artists and labels alike. Nothing witty here, move along.

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Chamillionaire proves himself a real student of the game. Must watch interview. (via Mashable)

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"Don’t tell me you can’t get a deal. That advances are low. That publishing royalties are off. That’s like lamenting you can’t find anybody to fix your cathode ray television. That’s all HISTORY! You’ve now gone cottage industry."

Amidst his CAPS LOCK rantings, Bob Lefsetz makes a great point.

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“Anyone Seen My Hair?!?!” Wow. Just wow. (thx to DAFC for making our day)

link Six Flags Has Your Back, America.

Six Flags Fiesta Texas denies entry to Austin student wearing Oh No! Oh My! t-shirt. Cartoon babies everywhere breathe sigh or relief. (via The Daily Swarm)