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May 23
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)
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)
May 22
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)
May 20
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.
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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. 
May 15
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)
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)
May 14
Resource: iStockphoto Adds Royalty Free Music Stock photo site takes a page out of the Getty/Pump Audio playbook (via Mashable)
May 13
Know your history.  Ian Mackaye Q&A.  (via Crazed Hits)
May 12
Don't Do This. The Guardian teaches us all how to go from hero to zero. (via Idolator)
May 9
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.
May 8
Chamillionaire proves himself a real student of the game.  Must watch interview. (via Mashable)
May 7
“ 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.
May 6
“Anyone Seen My Hair?!?!”  Wow.  Just wow. (thx to DAFC for making our day)
May 5
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)
May 2
“Charles Ray Fuller must have been planning one big record company.  The 21-year-old North Texas man was arrested last week for trying to cash a $360 billion check, saying he wanted to start a record business, authorities said. Tellers at the Fort Worth bank were immediately suspicious - perhaps the 10 zeros on a personal check tipped them off, according to investigators.”  (via The Associated Press)


“Charles Ray Fuller must have been planning one big record company.  The 21-year-old North Texas man was arrested last week for trying to cash a $360 billion check, saying he wanted to start a record business, authorities said.

Tellers at the Fort Worth bank were immediately suspicious - perhaps the 10 zeros on a personal check tipped them off, according to investigators.”  (via The Associated Press)

May 1
Resource: Artists House Berklee College of Music hosts ‘Your Guide To A Life In Music’.  Their video interview series is invaluable.  
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