And the Google will rock...

This was inevitable; Google will rock.

Google will now add linkable items to buy and download music. So, when you search for Lady gaga, you'll have results to purchase the music. Pretty cool google-ites... Now I hope you make it affordable and competitive.

http://www.google.com/landing/music/

Slipknot vs. Jonas Brothers

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via Attack of the Blog!

The new club is the indie record store

I think this is absolutely great! Jay Reatard, is doing a number of west coast-free shows in your local record store... I think playing at such a venue is absolutely fantastic. Oh, yeah, it's free too! How could you pass that up?

From Matador Records

Jay Reatard loves giving back.
He loves it so much, in fact, that he’s going to visit some of the independent record stores who have supported him and his records.
He loves it so much, in fact, that he’s playing instores at those record stores.
He loves it so much, in fact, that all of the instores are free and all ages.
That’s right…I said it.
Ten…count ‘em…TEN free all ages instores up the West Coast from San Diego to Vancouver.
So come help Jay celebrate the release of his new record Watch Me Fall with some instore ROCK!!!

August:
18th – 6pm @ Amoeba Music Hollywood (LA)
19th – 7pm @ Fingerprints (Long Beach)
20th – 7pm @ M-Theory (San Diego)
21st – 7pm @ Streetlight Records (Santa Cruz)
22nd – 6pm @ Amoeba Music San Francisco (duh)
23rd – 6pm @ Amoeba Music Berkeley (again…)
25th – 6pm @ Jackpot Records (Portland)
26th – 7pm @ Easy Street Records (Seattle)
27th – 7pm @ Sonic Boom Records (Seattle)
28th – 8pm @ Zulu Records (Vancouver)

And keep in mind that these will be Jay’s ONLY west coast dates in August.
There will be no club shows…meaning…Come!! Watch Jay Play.

Watch Me Fall is available on LP August 4th and CD August 18th.

Wanna be in RockBand?

Wanna get your tunes on Rock Band? We'll now here's your chance... The developers of the Rock Band franchise just announced the ability to get your music published onto Rock Band Platform. Very cool... Now potentially, my sucky music could get played by your mom in your living room. Sweet!

"MTV Games and Harmonix Empower Artists and Labels to Get Their Music in the Game with the Rock Band Network"

The Rock Band Network Gives Artists and Record Labels Tools to Author, Promote and Sell Music for Download via the Rock Band Platform The Rock Band Network is a revolutionary system that will allow bands, studios and record labels to create and sell playable game content from their master recordings using the same professional tools used by our developers. Check out this overview video for more on how it will work.

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EMI to stop distributing to indie record stores

EMI has stopped distributing their music product directly to Indie record stores. All EMI distribution will now be through a 3^rd party. So, our local indie record store will probably now have to pay an additional fee, to carry the EMI music catalog. Which may ultimately mean, no more EMI sold there.

Sucks for the indie record company. -- However, have you seen the EMI music catalog? I don’t honestly think the local indie store will miss what you could get at Walmart, along with your 9mm ammo, Hanes tighty-whiteys & 48-pack of juice boxes.

A couple of things that strike me about this are;

1.) The gossip on EMI is that they’re mired in financial woes. (Which is not exclusive in this suck economy.) So, this could be another cost cutting maneuver--among others. However, the base biz model of the record industry is to sell music. It comes off as the complete opposite of what they should be doing. Sell records. If my band was on the EMI label, I’d be pretty pissed.

2.) Again, the biz of CD’s is close to ending. I’m an avid CD buyer, but, if finding myself shopping for CD’s less and less. Either, I get p.o.’ed about the cost, it’s not available, and the convenience of online downloads, or I’m lazy.

So, as a wannabe rockstar… why be on a label. Do it yourself.

Read more here

Content from the quite witty: www.waynerosso.com

Virgin and Universal Strike Download Deal

So, all those people, (the record industry, deems such "people" as users of Napster, Limewire, Kazaa, and other P2P's, etc, to download music illegally online-- which are cutting into the Label's & RIAA's paychecks.), that got sued by the RIAA for downloading music, now have a legal option to download.

"U.K. telco and cable TV company Virgin Media has partnered with Universal Music on an unlimited download service described as a "world first" in that users will be able to keep all the MP3 downloads forever." Read More at Sky News.com>>

Basically, Virgin Media would enable their customers to enjoy all the musical content from Universal Music; Which artists include Amy Winehouse, U2, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Duffy, the Sugababes and James Morrison.

For a monthly subscription, still to be announced, the unlimited music download service will allow Virgin Media's broadband customers to stream and download as many songs and albums as they like from Universal's catalog. Users can listen to the tracks on any iPod, MP3 player, mobile phone or PC and keep them forever. Read at Billboard .com More>>


What's cool with this, is now, finally, you can get all your music, videos, and potential new media, from your favorite artist. Your Ipod, DVR, Digital TV, Laptop, PDA ect (As long as it's from Universal Music.-- So, you could get ALL the Elton John you could handle… because who can't get enough listens to Candle in the Wind.) I digress… before you couldn't get all you music from one source, the closest currently would be iTunes, but not for one monthly fee, and not on multiple platforms.

This is the beginning of music as a commodity, and not as a product. And the bonus, the record labels and artists keep their precious copyrights, and the user has access to all their fave bands content. Now if all the other Music distributors would do the same. You be able to "share" your music without repercussion. Which how it should be.

Pretty interesting stuff, and this will be a pretty big change for Music fans.

~G

For further reads on this subject, check out this book:

The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution

New products to piss off your guitar player. WOOT

Zildjian Z3 cymbals
Tired of your cymbals getting overdriven by your guitar player? If this is possible, (maybe because you're not hitting hard enough, just kidding.) Then your amp crushing tools are here!

The "3" in the "Z3" stands for "Power. Projection. & Playability." According to the website it's a mix between the "A Custom" (My personal faves) and the "Z Custom" line. The Z customs are f'ing LOUD, so, maybe it's 3 times as loud as previous "Z"? With this thinking it would sound way better than the "Z2's" Ok, made that up.

So, along with a new hammering technique, and mixture of the A & Z Customs, will create a greater projection--Therefore pissing off your guitar player. I'm eager to try them out.

~G

Check the out at Zildjian's Site