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iTunes will host a Paul McCartney live stream concert on Thursday
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Guitarworld notes that the new Paul McCartney album ‘Kisses on the Bottom’ launches this week, and to celebrate, he will be performing live from Capital Studios in Los Angeles on iTunes. [iTunes link] Here are the details: Paul McCartney will commemorate the release of his new album, Kisses On The Bottom, with...
Apple utilizes Facebook’s platform pretty well even though they’re not partners
thenextweb.com
You might remember that some time ago Apple launched its first attempt at a social network with “Ping“. When it launched, many thought this would be a perfect spot for Apple and Facebook to partner by sharing and selling music on Facebook’s platform. That turned out to not be the...
Interview: Andrew Bird And The Concept Of Cultivated Precariousness
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On the surface this may seem like an unlikely interview. I mean, we’re a tech blog and Andrew Bird is a musician. But beneath the organic and strikingly analog sounds of Mr. Bird’s beautiful music there is this whole sea of technology at work — especially during live solo performances....
Nicki Minaj dumps Twitter account to protest Web piracy
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Rapper sees tracks from new album leaked on fan site and tells fans 'Good f---ing bye.' [Read more]...
Fab.com Teams Up With Madonna For New Album Sale
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Design-focused flash sales site Fab.com is debuting a new partner today—Madonna. The site is featuring a special offer for U.S. members today for Madonna’s new album MDNA. The album will retail for $7.99 (vs. $14.99 retail). This isn’t the first time a music artist has partnered with a flash sales...
Madonna leverages social networks and startup Fab.com for ‘MDNA’ album push
thenextweb.com
Whether you’re a fan of Madonna or not, as a The Next Web reader you ought to be interested in how the artist and her management are banking on the Web to promote and sell her new, twelfth studio album, named ‘MDNA’. The Wall Street Journal this morning reported on...
Sony Xperia S (finally) gets its own Android 4.0 update (video)
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Sony's new flagship has finally caught up with its predecessors. Android Ice Cream Sandwich is now available on the Xperia S starting today. New features include the ability to display visuals during music playback, an updated calendar overview and notifications drop-down menu from the lock screen. The settings screen...
Deep Inside Amanda Palmer's Crowd-Powered, Naked Creativity Machine
www.fastcocreate.com
Her new album, "Theatre Is Evil," is the most successful music-based Kickstarter project to date. But is Amanda Palmer's tweet-happy, DIY, often NSFW approach a model for independent artists?...
Beck's new album, 'Song Reader,' is actually 20 pieces of sheet music
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As we all know, the phonograph destroyed American civilization when it killed off the sheet music industry in the 19th century, but famous recording artist Beck plans to reverse our decline so we can all relive the glory days of music. Beck has teamed up with McSweeny's for his...
Why Louis CK and Amanda Palmer are the future of content
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Comedian Louis CK raised some eyebrows earlier this year when he sold downloads of a live show through his website and pulled in more than $1 million in about a week, despite the fact that fans could easily download the content for free. Now, he has done it again:...
Exclusive First Look At Spin’s New Music-Playing Website
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Music magazines are getting hit with a double whammy in the age of digital media. Like all print publications, their audience is going online—but so is the music. Why read about a new album when you can just listen to it on Spotify? Spin magazine is responding by shifting...
Microsoft follows new xx album around the world in Internet Explorer promotion
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In a joint promotion for Internet Explorer and British band The xx, Microsoft has created a site tracking the progress of the band's new album, Coexist, around the world. Executed using HTML5, it offers a free stream of the album — set to be released on September 11th —...
Amanda Palmer calls Kickstarter 'the future of music' after breaking record for new album
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Amanda Palmer has set a new record for Kickstarter music funding by raising over $470,000 for her new album in just four days. The album has already been recorded with her band, but since breaking from a major label Palmer requires capital for mixing, distribution, manufacturing, and promotion. That's...
Lady Gaga new album to be an app
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The 26-year-old reveals on her Little Monsters website that videos, music and extra content will be available on computers, tablets and smart phones....
The new Google+ album organier makes photo management simpler
thenextweb.com
If you’ve ever uploaded a ton of photos to a service like Facebook, Flickr, or even Google+ itself, you know that the more you upload, the harder they get to manage. Some photos end up being placed in the wrong album or as time passes you’d like to duplicate them...
How the xx shared their new album Coexist by releasing it to just one fan
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Superfan in London given album to share online before its official release - and snowball effect causes host site to crashTo recreate the word-of-mouth phenomenon that made them famous, the xx shared their album stream Coexist with a single fan just outside London last week - days before its official...
Fort Atlantic releases new album on modded NES cartridge, no chiptunes in sight
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It's getting tough for bands to out retro each other these days (what with even cassettes making something of a comeback), but Birmingham, Alabama's own Fort Atlantic has managed to come up with something that's likely to break through the nostalgia-filled haze. While you'll soon be able to buy...
Apple to Stream McCartney Concert Live to iTunes, Apple TV
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Paul McCartney will be promoting his new album, Kisses on the Bottom, with a live stream on Thursday, February 9....
Path co-founder Dustin Mierau: 'an app without design is like a good story printed on a dot matrix printer'
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Dustin Mierau is co-founder and Chief Designer at Path, a journal and social network for Android and iPhone. Before Path, he co-founded Macster, which eventually became Napster for Mac. Mierau took a few minutes to talk to The Verge about the finer points of designing great software, how to...
Path co-founder Dustin Mierau: 'an app without design is like a good story printed on a dot matrix printer'
uTorrent: Download Directly to Your Phone
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Can't wait to download a new album or TV show? Don't want to wait until you're on your home computer? From the people who created the BitTorrent protocol more than a decade ago, comes an app that lets torrent on your phone. More »...
As BPI Tries To Block The Pirate Bay From The UK, Dan Bull Explains Why Musicians Should Block BPI
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With Newzbin2 getting censored in the UK, BPI -- basically, the UK wing of the RIAA -- has been looking to have courts order many more sites blocked, with The Pirate Bay being target number one. Dan Bull, the UK-based musician who we've written about many times for his consistently...
Facebook updates Pages Manager app with additional support for photos
www.insidefacebook.com
Facebook today updated its Pages Manager app for iOS with new support for photo viewing and sharing. Page owners can now see their cover photo and change their profile photo from the app. Users are able to swipe through photos in an album rather than tapping to view each photo...
Taylor Swift Doesn't Want Me To Listen To Her New Album On Spotify. Not So Swift.
techcrunch.com
I love streaming music and I’m an avid user of Spotify for this purpose. I was pretty delighted when I saw that Taylor Swift’s new album “Red” was available for listening when I opened up the app. I listened to the whole album, and I gotta tell ya…it’s pretty damn...
Facebook updates Camera app for iPhone with notifications to draw users back in
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Facebook today released an update for its standalone Camera app for iPhone, which now includes the option to upload photos to albums, as well as notifications when friends Like, tag or comment on photos. Facebook says photo albums were the app’s most requested feature. Push notifications about friend activity on a...
Flayvr now makes it easier than ever to share automatically-created albums of photos and videos
thenextweb.com
When something happens that you want to share, you may take multiple photos or videos but you probably only share one or two of them because it’s such a pain to do. Flayvr recently launched to tackle this problem, with instantly generated, interactive albums that make it easy to share...
Apps Rush: Simian Mobile Disco, re:route, BlackBerry Screen Reader, Twitpic, Dark Legends, Bantr and more
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What's new on the app stores on Tuesday 8 May 2012A selection of 12 new and notable apps for you today:Simian Mobile Disco – UnpatternsDance duo Simian Mobile Disco have teamed up with artist Kate Moross to release an iOS app for their new album, a week ahead of its...
Apps Rush: Simian Mobile Disco, re:route, BlackBerry Screen Reader, Twitpic, Dark Legends, Bantr and more
Frank Ocean: Channel Orange - review
www.guardian.co.uk
Frank Ocean has got a lot of people talking about his sexuality - but his brilliant, beautiful new album is the real storyThe news that Frank Ocean had apparently outed himself as bisexual received a variety of reactions, but perhaps the most curious was the suggestion he was indulging in...
Team Amanda
allthingsd.com
It doesn’t feel like a windfall. It feels like the accumulated reward for years and years of work. –Amanda Palmer, in an interview before the party to celebrate the $1,192,793 she raised during a monthlong Kickstarter campaign for her new album...
Now I Wanna Sell This Record Directly to the Fans
allthingsd.com
What has a record company ever done for me but humiliate and torment and drag me down? –Iggy Pop, on why he decided to sell his new album himself....
Musaic is a killer way to discover music visually through album art
thenextweb.com
This past weekend was Music Hack Day San Francisco, which was the third in the city and the twentieth overall globally since 2009. There were over 200 developers in attendance hacking away on cool projects that could help change the future of music distribution and delivery. While sitting through sixty-one...
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