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• Prince gives away his new CD, Music industry goes nuts

  The following quote sums it up nicely: "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince should know that with behaviour like this he will soon be the Artist Formerly Available in Record Stores. And I say that to all the other artists who may be tempted to dally with the Mail on Sunday." They really do sound like a bunch of petulant little kids, don't they?

• Call the RIAA! President Bush Illegaly Rips Music from CD's

  In a recent Fox News interview, Bush shared his affection for iPods, showed the music player and revealed a portion of his playlist. As it appears, Bush ripped Beatles music from CDs and copied it to the music player. As we all should know, this is a big no-no, at least according to the RIAA. Is Bush breaking the law?

• Independent Music Distribution: Good Marketing and Bad

  The blog series from Peter Wells, SVP of Operations at Tunecore, “What Every Musician Should Know about Digital Distribution” Part IV: Good Marketing and Bad.

• What Every Musician Should Look For in a Digital Distributor

  Part II of What Every Musician Should Know about Digital Distribution: If you are a small label or individual artist, you’re going to have to go with a digital distributor. How do you pick one?

• What Every Musician Should Know about Digital Distribution

  Who do you get to sell your music and under what deal terms? How do you get them the music, how do you track the process? It might be time to call in the experts, the distributors who specialize in this new digital world, the digital distributors.

• **NEW MUSIC** NE-Yo "Chillin"

  Fellas you ever hit up a lady friend late night and asked her to come chill? Now after midnight both parties should know what "Chillin" means. If you don't you need to check out this new Ne-yo...

• 'Time After Time' Goes Musical

  Stephen Cole doesn't think highly of mutant Morlocks from the future. It's not personal, he just doesn't feel they're suitable theater material. Cole should know, as a playwright and musical lyricist he's based musical shows on such beloved properties as cult classic film "Night Of The Hunter" to everyone's favorite friendly ghost Casper.

• 1st Annual LA Weekly Detour Music Festival

  Angelenos should know that the 1st Annual LA Weekly Detour music Festival is happening this October 7th in Downtown Los Angeles. Tickets are $35.50, which seem like a value considering the artist lineup. Some of the more notable artists include Beck, Blonde Redhead, Peeping Tom, Queens of the Stone Age, Basement Jaxx, as well as many others [...]

• Crappy edutainment game STEALS Zelda music!

  A game for the Vsmile edutainment system has been found to have at least two music tracks from the N64 title "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time." As atrocious as the quality of 'edutainment' tends to be, even terrible developers should know not to plagiarize. Does creating something supposedly educational somehow void copyright law?

• Druids « Celticmusicfan's Weblog

  Celtic languages are fascinating and really beautiful. The problem is trying to learn all of them ,.I should know that because I am still struggling with learning Gealige.Based on articles I’ve read, trying to be a Druid is a high order. It demands a lot and in ancient times,students have to study up to 20 years just to become one.