Deerhunter have offered a new track off of their forthcoming Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP, due out June 8th on Kranky. Very strong!
MP3: Deerhunter – Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Source: Pitchfork
By Nate Anderson of Ars Technica
The Pirate Bay “spectrial” has ended in a guilty verdict, prison sentences for the defendants, and a shared 30 million kronor ($3.5 million) fine. According to the Swedish district court, the operators of the site were guilty of assisting copyright infringement, even though The Pirate Bay hosted none of the files in question and even though other search engines like Google also provide direct access to illegal torrent files. Continue Reading
Billboard.com :Why the Pirate Bay Decision Doesn’t Matter
Sam McBean’s (Black Mountain) side project Pink Mountaintops have made a new track available for download. The Mountaintops’ forthcoming album, Outside Love, will be released via Jagjaguwar on May 5th.
MP3: Pink Mountaintops – Vampire
Hill Country Revue is being billed as the modern Southern Rock & Blues band for the new generation. Formed by Cody Dickinson and Chris Chew from The North Mississippi All-Stars in February 2008, it features Kirk Smithhart, Ed “Hot” Cleveland and Dixie Dan Coburn. The band’s debut studio album, Make A Move, will released by Razor & Tie on May 12th. The majority of the material on the album was written by Garry Burnside, the youngest son of legendary Mississippi bluesman R.L. Burnside. They’re playing tonight at the Georgia Theatre in Athens. For additional tour dates (click here).
MP3: Hill Country Revue – Alice Mae
MP3: Hill Country Revue – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (The Stones)**
**Nice Stones Worthy Jam
The Black Angels
MP3: Black Lipstick – B.O.B. F.O.S.S.E.
MP3: Black Taj – L.A. Shift
MP3: Black Angels – Better Off Alone
MP3: Black Moth Super Rainbow & The Octopus Project – Elq Milq
MP3: Blackball False, Truth! – Knives Chau Luvs LCD
John McCauley III of Deer Tick
Interesting choice of songs that John covers.
MP3: Deer Tick – Beautiful Girls (Sean Kingston)
MP3: Deer Tick – Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon)
MP3: Deer Tick – What Kind Of Fool Am I? (Anthony Newley)
Related Posts – New Deer Tick Track ‘Easy’ (Click Here)
Download:
Deer Tick – War Elephant (iTunes)
By Antony Bruno, Denver – Billboard
“Music social network MOG relaunched today to become, in the words of founder and CEO David Hyman, the “Huffington Post of the music business.”
But the new look is just the first step in what Hyman says will be a much broader music service that integrates streaming music with user-generated content. Exactly what that will look like won’t be known for another few months, but there have already been some significant changes. The company has terminated its on-demand, full-song streaming partnership with Rhapsody, and is in the process of licensing music directly from the record labels.
Billboard sat with Hyman to discuss the relaunch, the strategy behind it and what’s to come for the social network.” Continue Reading
Related Posts – Rollo & Grady Interview with David Hyman (Click Here)
From VatorNews:
In the midst of record labels cracking down on Online music piracy, (like last week’s announcement of Seeqpod filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy while facing lawsuits with Warner and EMI), a new company is once again trying to change the way users consume music on the Web.
Goom Radio, an online radio company based out of New York, has secured $16 million Series A funding from Wellington Partners Venture Capital, Elaia Partners and Partech International.
The company seeks to, ‘reinvent radio for the Internet generation,’ by providing its users a free platform in which they can create their own radio stations, similar to Online radio pioneers Last.fm and Pandora. The company will be ad supported. Continue Reading
