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After having their power cut Rage Against the Machine literally “took it to the streets” at the Republican National Convention. They risked what could have come off has a pretty silly/hoakey sing-a-long and performed 2 songs accappella while in the crowd.
The cast of Spring Awakening did the same thing last year during the teamsters […]

Published by: Brian Miller on Sep 03, 2008 at 02:25 PM

We have to agree with Tad on this one. The Hold Steady Guitarist told BBC 6 Music that “I think they’ve lost the plot,” he said. “What are they doing? Where are they going? What’s happening? I don’t get it any more. They lost me. And we have to agree a little bit. We saw […]

Published by: Brian Miller on Aug 18, 2008 at 10:24 PM

Reports here that Lil Wayne is due to sell upwards of 900,000 copies of “Tha Carter III” this week. That is despite of Mr. Waynes protest against the mixtape dj’s unfairly profitting on his music and other album leaks. Lil Wayne could also surpass Kanye West 1st week sales of “Graduation” which reached 956,000 copies. […]

Published by: Brian Miller on Jun 12, 2008 at 10:39 AM



I did think this was going to be the most banal click through ever. And it is. But then Puffy reminded me to register to vote. I have the form in my man bag and almost forgot about it. So there. Public service announcements and bland-standard-formula-girl-pop courtesy of Sean Combs. Thanks Sean.
Sean do you […]

Published by: Brian Miller on Jun 11, 2008 at 06:11 PM

What do you do if your release date is 2 months away and someone in your camp has leaked your new album to the interweb? It happens alot. All the time. Your label has spent 6 months staging a marketing campaign and now everyone UMICH is downloading your creative genius faster than a greased […]

Published by: Brian Miller on Jun 05, 2008 at 11:55 PM

Tony Soprano once said ” Remember when- is the lowest form of conversation.” Well… we think it’s the lowest form of song writting also.

Published by: Brian Miller on May 16, 2008 at 09:57 AM



Perhaps I’m old fashioned, but I was brought up with the capitalist concepts of producer and consumer - someone makes something that I want, and I pony up the cash for my own copy of it. There are shared assumptions in this agreement - I believe that the company will make something that I […]

Published by: Brian Miller on Apr 01, 2008 at 09:55 PM

If you wanted to know why, the headline says it all read all about it here. But that’s not what’s interesting. What is fascinating is how burnt out that song is. More specifically how spent and ineffective the 1994 Jeff Buckley version is ( Leonard Cohen wrote and recorded the original on the album Various […]

Published by: Brian Miller on Mar 07, 2008 at 12:26 AM

Ok. Here’s the deal with the NFL tapping into the indie street cred market by using the Arcade Fire’s song “No Cars Go” in Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast. While the NFL might not have had written express permission to use the song it could be legal under the Ephemeral rule. But if you ask any […]

Published by: Brian Miller on Feb 05, 2008 at 01:20 PM



They seem to be doing all the right things. They just signed Kid Sister. They also just released the Santogold single on

. This year the reportedly have releases from Amanda Blank and Gnarls Barkley coming out. Great. Not to mention they are currently riding the wave of Justice and Spank Rock taking over […]

Published by: Brian Miller on Feb 01, 2008 at 01:11 PM


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