In response to Jay-Z and Kanye West's decision to offer exclusive sales programs to iTunes and Best Buy for their forthcoming "Watch the Throne" LP, a number of independent retailers have written an open letter to the duo protesting the plan, calling it a "short-sighted strategy." Dear Jay-Z an... Read more...
By designating Lady Gaga's hotly anticipated album "Born This Way" as Monday's "MP3 Daily Deal," Amazon appears to be have gambled that the cost of selling the album at far below wholesale price will be worth the value of drawing additional customer traffic to promote its Cloud Drive and Cloud P... Read more...
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Jamie Knight - Still In Love (<--Itunes Link) That was fast right? As heard on the StarAndBucWild Morning Show, Phillys own Jamie Knight has a new single out called “Still in Love” Jamie Knight has toured with some of todays greatest artist and also recorded a song with Jay... Read more...
Have you heard the scary news about 'LizaMoon,' a malicious code attack that has already infected more than a million websites? Don't panic. This particular bit of hacker mischief is setting off alarms among online security watchdogs for its speed and scope, but built-in software safeguard... Read more...
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29/03/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in apple,
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I know that pigs may only fly in your dreams, but dont sleep on A.Dd+, these dudes are nice. They have a classic southern feel to their music with new school flavor. This is definitely going into my library. If you like it like I do, strongly consider buying one of the 37 36 35 34 33 special e... Read more...
Jon Bon Jovi is accusing Apple co-founder Steve Jobs of "killing" the music industry with iTunes. "Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking you... Read more...
Apple is negotiating with the big record labels to allow unlimited iTunes downloads so people can download the music they've paid for to many devices, Bloomberg reports. (Right now, you basically have to download the music once, and then sync it across many devices on your own, primarily thro... Read more...
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17/02/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Do The Knowledge,
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Topspin CEO Ian Rogers sketches out a different future. Rogers, the former head of Yahoo Music, correctly points out, as others have before him, that it is not the music industry that is dying. It is the CD business. And as far as the CD business going the way of the dodo, with sales of physi... Read more...