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Wow! In the past we have encouraged you to make a cheap video, with some ideas for you. We did not see this coming this fast though! It is for the song "play" by BJSR. Looks like the video quality on that iPhone 3Gs is pretty great!
*Update*
Another cool video shot on the 3GS on launch day after the jump!
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Wavves "No Hope Kids" from Pete Ohs on Vimeo.
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If you have read Musformation before you know we aren't too fond of the major labels business practices. However, we gotta call truthiness when we see it. Unfortunately, a blog post has been aggregated by the other music industry blogs, that we feel has some half truths and we are forced to defend our unlikely bed fellows at the majors. Umair Haque wrote an article entitled Michael Jackson and the Zombie Economy that we have a bit of beef with. Read below:
"Let's use MJ's tragic death as a mini case-study. $300 million over, for example, 25 years? That's $12 million a year.I'm deliberately leaving out ads, endorsements, concerts, etc., to focus on the the structural problems in one industry: music.
If the world's biggest pop star only made $12 million a year from his recordings, why would anyone make serious music? Where did the rest of the money go? Why, straight into record labels' pockets. Did they make better music with it? Nope -- they made Britney and Lady GaGa. And that's how they killed themselves: by underinvesting in quality, to rake in the take.
Wait a second -- that sounds familiar. You can add back in the endorsements, etc. now -- they only double the figure: to about $25 million.
If the world's biggest pop star only made $25 million a year in total, something's very, very wrong. Where's the rest of the money? Why can't a resource as scarce as the King of Pop capture more value?"
There is a fact that is left out - since 2001 Michael was left with a mountain of debt to his record company over the epic fail of Invincible. In 2002 Sony claimed Michael owed them $200 million, due in large part to the insane spending to make this "comeback record." Recording costs were rumored at over $100 million alone, with around the same amount put into promotion. Anyone with a cursory knowledge of the major labels royalty structure knows you are not getting a check from them until you recoup a debt. In this case, no matter how well Thriller may have still sold post-Invincible, they were able to take any sales of Michael's previous recording to recoup his previous debt.
While Haque makes countless good points in this article, and we agree with nearly everything he says, there facts are needed to complete the story. Michael would have made a lot more money if he had been the least bit frugal in his spending and not stood for the usual major label excess (or should I say his handlers shouldn't have stood for it). Had he gone another route and been smart enough to realize the public still was not ready for a record from him, toured to promote the record, he would have still been making money from the labels. The system was in place when he had signed his latest contract and he knew if the record failed he would be penalized with sales from his back catalog not coming to him. This isn't just a tale of a broken economy and the usual stupidity of the majors. It is also a tale of poor artists decisions.
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"The Pirate Bay has been sold--and the new owners plan to make it a legal service that allows "content providers and copyright owners [to] get paid for content that is downloaded via the site."
Global Gaming Factory X AB, a Swedish firm that runs Internet cafes
and game centers, plans to buy The Pirate Bay for 60 million kronor,
twice the fine that was slapped on The Pirate Bay defendants by a Stockholm court earlier this year."
While this won't help their legal woes at least they avoid any future problems with the law for the founders. More at ARS.
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- New Buddyhead News/Gossip
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- SIMON OFFERED $144 MIL A YEAR TO STAY ON 'IDOL'- Still will beg people to stop singing
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- NYC's legendary punk show venue gets 1.6 million from NYC for a new building
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cry for helpvideo out now - Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs sneak underneath the covers (gasp!)
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I have found Musformation's new favorite site! An amazing gem of a human has decided to rate and critique tons of 80's Sax Solos. I will allow the author to explain the vision in their own words:"I realized about 5 years ago that at some point in the 80s, lots of the popular music started incorporating saxophone solos into their songs. Some of them are fine, but most of them are ridiculous to have in the songs. Below, I have attempted to separate the quality and appropriateness of the solos from what I think of the song as a whole (I still really like most of these songs, even the ones with low grades). Click on the Play buttons to play the samples."Check it out.
To many fans of late 90's alterna-rock Far's Water & Solutions was one of those records you couldn't believe didn't take over the world. Well, rejoice they are back on the scene and they want you to contribute gang vocals to one of their new songs. A pretty cool idea to get your fans involved and get a huge gang vocal. Here is what you do, if you want to be involved.
1. Watch the intro video here
2. Record the audio and/or video of you (and your friends and family) screaming along
3. Post the recording anywhere you like (YouTube, Facebook, etc)
4. Send the link (not the file) to us in any number of ways:
- Post it in a comment at http://thebandfar.com/news/839
- Tweet it at http://twitter.com/thebandfar
- Post it as a comment at http://myspace.com/thebandfar
- Post it as a comment at http://www.facebook.com/pages/far/72115108498?ref==3Dmf
(via punknews)
"I'm in France for the summer and have been listening to Pandora at work. I tried logging on tonight and was greeted with a surprising message: 'We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the US. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative. ... The pace of global licensing is hard to predict, but we have the ultimate goal of being able to offer our service everywhere.' I'm not sure what the deal is or what licensing requirements suddenly changed, but Pandora in France is no more..."
Hopefully Pandora will soon work this out to keep giving the people the awesome experience of their service.
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