…Nirvana’s Nevermind was released. In tribute to my favorite album, here’s the video for my favorite song:
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I can neither confirm nor deny that this is my favorite song right now:
Bad news for all you people who like to listen to Pandora while “working”:
Pandora is one of the nation’s most popular Web radio services, with about 1 million listeners daily. Its Music Genome Project allows customers to create stations tailored to their own tastes. It is one of the 10 most popular applications for Apple’s iPhone and attracts 40,000 new customers a day.
Yet the burgeoning company may be on the verge of collapse, according to its founder, and so may be others like it.
“We’re approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision,” said Tim Westergren, who founded Pandora. “This is like a last stand for webcasting.”
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Last year, an obscure federal panel ordered a doubling of the per-song performance royalty that Web radio stations pay to performers and record companies.
Traditional radio, by contrast, pays no such fee. Satellite radio pays a fee but at a less onerous rate, at least by some measures.
As for Pandora, its royalty fees this year will amount to 70 percent of its projected revenue of $25 million, Westergren said, a level that could doom it and other Web radio outfits.
Ah the music industry. They sure do know how to take a good thing and screw it up. In related news, Muxtape, popular with people who live in NY and use Tumblr, has “temporarily” shut down.
via Valleywag, who also have all the viral videos Weezer spoofs
B3ta is doing an extending album art challenge, and naturally this was my favorite. via
Akon’s ad nauseum claims about his criminal career and resulting prison time have been, to an overwhelming extent, exaggerated, embellished, or wholly fabricated, an investigation by The Smoking Gun has revealed. Police, court, and corrections records reveal that the entertainer has created a fictionalized backstory that serves as the narrative anchor for his recorded tales of isolation, violence, woe, and regret. Akon has overdubbed his biography with the kind of grit and menace that he apparently believes music consumers desire from their hip-hop stars.
They did a pretty extensive investigation and it looks like they have the goods on the guy. Ah well, he was played out anyway.
Last week the L.A. Times published an article about a 1994 attack on Tupac Shakur that linked Sean “P. Diddy” Combs to the attack. The Smoking Gun investigated and says the Times was the victim of a hoax:
The Times appears to have been hoaxed by an imprisoned con man and accomplished document forger, an audacious swindler who has created a fantasy world in which he managed hip-hop luminaries, conducted business with Combs, Shakur, Busta Rhymes, and The Notorious B.I.G., and even served as Combs’s trusted emissary to Death Row Records boss Marion “Suge” Knight during the outset of hostilities in the bloody East Coast-West Coast rap feud.
Made entirely with sounds found within windows:
(via Ryan Corazza)