I’m a big fan of instrumentals. Without lyrics to fall back on, the music has to bear all the weight of the composition. What, in your opinion, are the best alt-rock instrumentals of all time?
Better yet, do you know of an obscure alt-rock instrumental that everyone should really know about? (See my pick involving Isa and the Filthy Tongues.)
Here are the rules:
Read MoreAnother week, another list of songs that have caught my attention. Thanks for the folks at Mediazoic for the help with the player.
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Give people what they want when they want at a reasonable price and they’ll stop stealing. From Techcrunch:
The Swedish polling company, Media Vision, has released a study (in Swedish) about downloading habits in the country where Spotify was born. Their results? 23 percent of Swedes download music illegally, down 2 to 3 percent since 2010. In short, music piracy, at least in that market, is falling rapidly and much of that decline can be attributed to the popularity of services like Spotify.
Read MoreYawn. Copyright law. Could there by anything more boring? Well, snap out of it. The feds have been trying to update the Copyright Act for the better part of a decade now, but
Read MoreDomino, one of the cooler indie labels on the planet at the moment, has launched its own app. It promises us “access to stream music from our entire catalogue and to immerse
Read MoreGood stuff, especially if you’re an Apollo space geek like me. Find out more about Pennan Brae here.
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Because Spotify remains verboten to Canadians, this isn’t an issue for us yet. But it should raise some serious red flags about how creepy the people who run Facebook are coming.
According to what I’ve heard, new Spotify users couldn’t sign in unless they signed in through their Facebook account. Why? So Facebook and slurp up even more data about you. No Facebook account? Well, I guess you’ll need one if you want to use Spotify.
Read MoreWow. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy too much time on your hands, dude. (Thanks to Adam for the tip!)
Read MoreIf you’re having a bad day and you think you’re a real loser, take comfort. Think of this guy. Sun-Times Media Wire Chicago – Robert Lyons won’t be attending an Avril Lavigne show
Read MoreFrom consultant Sean Ross’ newsletter today: “Consider the pressure for an act preparing a first single from the new project that follows-up a smash album. Sometimes they walk in with an even more
Read MoreFrom BiffBamPop: Everyone likes the sound of a familiar voice. Nowhere else is that more true than in the world of radio. But what happens when the familiar voice that gets you to
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