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5 Most Ridiculous International Music Acts [w/ videos]

Friday, June 13th, 2008

When you see videos like this youre just happy that even though we elect our idols with text message votes, we have laws against most of this stuff to prevent it from happening here.

Psyche, meet your worst nightmare: Adrian Munsey, British…musician? Shepherd? Who the hell knows. But before you go making fun of the guy, consider two things: One, he does one hell of a sheep impersonation, and two, maybe, just maybe, we…

10 Ways People Are Ruining Concerts For Everyone

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

At concerts these days you have to brace yourself for an experience easily ruined by the fans themselves, who have become a rude and unruly lot entirely unaware of everyone else's personal space. Here are the ten rules of concerts that people blatantly disobey.

10. Waiting till the band plays their radio hit and then leaving . A lot of times the band comes to town early in their career and they already know that you only came to see them for one song. But humour them and feign some interest in the rest…

EMI Says You Can’t Store Your Music Files Online

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

EMI believes that consumers aren’t allowed to store their music files online, and that MP3tunes is violating copyright law by providing a backup service.

In March, a court told EMI it couldn't demand that MP3tunes turn over all the music stored by customers on its servers. Robertson writes on his corporate blog that the request is absurd:Files are not MP3tunes' possessions any more than the…

Pirated by iTunes, Artist Turns to BitTorrent

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, became so outraged when he discovered that iTunes was effectively pirating his music, that he uploaded copies of his latest album to BitTorrent. TorrentFreak caught up with Benn to learn more about the decision to stop distributors and ‘coked-up label reps’ from getting all the cash.

The thing RIAA is scared of is that their billion dollar backbone can no longer shelter people from exploring music themselves. Their business plan had evolved into telling the world what they will want to listen to and buy, and now they’ll…