Muxtape vs the RIAA, the takedown - Justin’s story

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Music lovers, unite! I have long felt that music sites like Pampelmoose and other MP3 blogs are the new radio. I argued as much in an essay for the IFPI site after receiving a takedown notice of my own. Justin, the man behind Muxtape has written a passionate and intelligent post explaining his love of [...]

Thievery Corporation, a strange iLike video

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Thievery Corporation on iLike - Get Sidebar
I’m looking forward to the new Thievery Corporation album and it’s nice of the guys to post a video introduction to each song on the new album…problem is, there are no songs. Check it out, it’s so existential…… The guys seem to have clamped down on the availability of [...]

Amazon launches SoundUnwound, a new music site

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I’m not certain that the world needs a new music site but this one looks interesting as it is user-driven. Amazon and IMDb have teamed up to bring us SoundUnwound. A quick search of ‘Gang of Four’ brings perfunctory results but here’s where the tail can wag the dog - if I become a member [...]

howard wolfson, music, politics and the moose

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

In one of those random and yet surgically precise ways I electronically met Howard Wolfson yesterday. Wolfson was Communications Director for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and is currently continuing his career as a political commentator for Fox News. He also runs a music blog, Gotham Acme, that I learned about by reading an article [...]