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Mar 8, 2013
The most ridiculous SXSW story so far this year
Hire someone to get you on all the cool parties' lists.
By Miles Raymer
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Bleader
Sep 18, 2012
Albini expands on his totally correct views re: Amanda Palmer
Somehow there is beef between Steve Albini and someone else and he's the one who's not the asshole in the situation
By Miles Raymer
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Bleader
Aug 22, 2012
Is RapidShare snitching on Google?
The crackdown on piracy by proxy looks to get interesting
By Miles Raymer
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Bleader
Jun 18, 2012
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Chief Keef goes bigger than expected, signs to Interscope
Millions of bucks, a movie deal, and his own Beats headphones
By Miles Raymer
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Bleader
Apr 23, 2012
Video
Anonymous deploys Anontune in war against RIAA
Hacktivists design new killer music app, ignore musicians
By Miles Raymer
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Bleader
Apr 17, 2012
The good old bad old days
David Lowery defends the major-label system.
By Miles Raymer
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Bleader
Apr 16, 2012
My obsession with Hologram Tupac
A symphony of bad taste and greed
By Miles Raymer
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Bleader
Apr 6, 2012
Video
On writing the perfect press release
The simple poetry of someone trying to get me to write about Phil Anselmo
By Miles Raymer
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Whoa
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Bleader
Mar 23, 2012
Your semiregular seapunk-journalism update
Writing about writing about writing about seapunk
By Miles Raymer
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Bleader
Mar 19, 2012
A sight for sore ears
A new therapy might fix tinnitus with headphones.
By Miles Raymer
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technology
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Bleader
Mar 13, 2012
On the road to SXSW
So it begins.
By Miles Raymer
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SXSW
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the biz
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Danny Brown
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Bleader
Dec 23, 2011
Clad your torso, feed some musicians
Shirtify wants to sell you some merch based on your listening habits
By Miles Raymer
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Bleader
Dec 9, 2011
The Dajaz1.com raid, one year later
Why you should care about how the government handled a hip-hop blog bust
By Miles Raymer
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Bleader
Nov 23, 2011
An interview with Legitmix creator Omid McDonald
A Q&A with the guy who might be bringing back legal sampling
By Miles Raymer
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Bleader
Nov 17, 2011
Google Music leaves beta
Free Google cloud music, with a cheap Stones bootleg
By Miles Raymer
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Bleader
Oct 25, 2011
Loutallica is music criticism's savior, probably
Chuck Klosterman's unlikely appreciation of major labels
By Miles Raymer
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Lou Reed
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Metallica
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Bleader
Aug 30, 2011
The business of selling music continues to make no sense at all
Tha Carter IV's surprising first week sales estimates
By Miles Raymer
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Lil Wayne
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Billboard
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Jay-Z
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Kanye
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Tyler the Creator
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Lady Gaga
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Bleader
Aug 16, 2011
Video
What it takes to avoid leaking your album in 2011
The crazy security measures behind "Watch the Throne"
By Miles Raymer
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the biz
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Spike Jonze
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Otis
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Bleader
Jun 16, 2011
Numero Group on opting out of the iTunes cloud
Why Apple won't be swapping out any of your Numero MP3s
By Miles Raymer
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Crickets
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Music
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Numero Group
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Chicago
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the biz
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Apple
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iTunes
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iCloud
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the Internet
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Bleader
May 31, 2011
Fish to Ride Bicycles on July 12
The Cool Kids are finally putting out their first long-player.
By Miles Raymer
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Crickets
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Music
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Cool Kids
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Chicago
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Green Label Sound
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hip-hop
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the biz
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Travis Barker
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Asher Roth
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Ghostface Killah
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Bun B
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Pharrell Williams
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Mayer Hawthorne
Blogs
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Bleader
May 10, 2011
Google Music Gets a Thumbs-Down From the Majors
Mountain View launches a compromised cloud music service.
By Miles Raymer
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Crickets
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Music
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Google
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the biz
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Google Music
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Amazon Cloud Drive
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Apple
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iTunes
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iPod
Blogs
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Bleader
May 9, 2011
Worlds Collide: Groupon and Live Nation Edition
Will GrouponLive help or hurt the concert industry?
By Miles Raymer
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Crickets
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Music
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Groupon
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Live Nation
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GrouponLive
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Ticketmaster
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Chicago
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the biz
Blogs
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Bleader
May 5, 2011
This Week on the B Side
Cloud music, Matana Roberts's epic "Coin Coin," Dorkbot vs JBOT, singing mice, a fingerpicking prodigy, Baby Dee, Jonathan Richman, Destruction, and more
By Miles Raymer
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Music
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Baby Dee
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Jonathan Richman
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A-Trak
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Neil Young
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Destruction
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Chicago Reader
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the biz
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Mantana Roberts
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Dorkbot
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Captured! by Robots
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Gossip Wolf
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Loose Dudes
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Aleks and the Drummer
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Brenmar
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Chances Dances
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the Weeknd
Blogs
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Bleader
Apr 1, 2011
A Challenger Appears: Live Nation Bidding on Part of Warner Music Group
Having already bought Ticketmaster, Live Nation is looking to get into the record biz.
By Miles Raymer
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Crickets
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Music
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Live Nation
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Ticketmaster
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Warner Music Group
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Warner/Chappell
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the biz
Blogs
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Bleader
Mar 21, 2011
Is Apple Finally Taking iTunes to the Cloud?
A new MobileMe might bring music "lockers."
By Miles Raymer
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Crickets
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Music
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Apple
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iTunes
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MobileMe
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lockers
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the biz
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Lala
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Google
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the Internet
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