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February is the month 49 years ago when Island Records began and in 2009 Island Records will be 50 years old. Unfortunately Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, who started the label in Jamaica in 1959 sold the storied company to Polygram/Universal Records in 1999 and it has become a shell of its former self under [...]

“When you see them pull a carton of something out of the refrigerator, it reminds me I’m paying $5 for a squirt of liquid and milk,” said Hannah Boyd, 16, who lives on the Upper East Side.
I would suggest that is not music to the ears of Starbuck’s chief, Howard Schultz. The New York [...]

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Many people have asked “What goes on at Nemo?” or “Who works there?” ….now you can find out. Nemo the cult, the photoshoot. Next stop Vanity Fair’s cover…
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Retro-futurist drone-pop is what the folks at Pitchfork call Cloudland Canyon’s ‘You & I.’ Have a listen and make your own mind up. I like it a lot.

Another retailer decides CDs are not the business to be in. I figured they’d be switching over to MP3s but that’s not the case, in fact you can get free MP3s from the site. Maybe getting out of music sales period is the answer….
“On December 3, 1998, Paste (the company) sparked to life with the [...]

This leaked RIAA training video shows a clear correlation between “music piracy” and drug-dealing and murder. …produced with the National District Attorneys Association telling U.S. prosecutors why they should bust music pirates: Because it’ll lead them to “everything from handguns to large quantities of cocaine [and] marijuana,” not to mention terrorists and murderers! [See [...]