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MP3 Blogs Are Ruining the Music Industry

Check out this article at the Guardian about how MP3 Blogs are sabotaging profits for independent labels and ruining the music industry.
HIPSTER RUNOFF is definitely another blog lost in the shit storm of new MP3 blogs (AKA “Music blogs”) that are interested in cultivating readership by reposting popular songs from hypemachine. Hopefully our differentiation [...]

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The Tough Alliance

The Tough Alliance is probably my favourite band of the moment. Just some great electronic pop out of Sweeden. It’s like post-post-post Animal Collective, in a way. Is The Tough Alliance the next Animal Collective? Maybe.
It’s the kind of sound that made me enjoy Lo-Fi-Fnk so much over the [...]

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Interpol

Interpol’s new album sounds more Interpol-y than ever. While every one will always love “Turn On The Bright Lights,” we all have had to readjust our tastebuds to try to appreciate “Antics” and “Our Love to Admire.”
I’ve listened to “Our Love to Admire” a few times the whole way through, and it gets pretty [...]

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Italians Do It Better

One business model/record label that I think it doing a great job of penetrating the blogosphere is Italians Do It Better. They have some great bands that really sound appropriate, collectively with a disco meets modern arpeggios. Glass Candy, Mirage, and the Chromatics are great. I wonder when they’re going to form [...]

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