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“… it was just a vagina and it would say coca-cola on the vagina…”
I’m 100% not ashamed to admit that I think Dave Foley is 100% hilariously sexy in his ill-fitting mauve briefs. You shake it baby!
Japanese celebrity impersonators take on “We Are The World”… Thanks to Stereogum…
I’m speechless.
Who’s surprised?
More teenagers ignoring CDs, report says
By Michelle Quinn and Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
February 27, 2008SAN FRANCISCO — Going to the mall to buy music may no longer be a rite of passage for adolescents.
For the first time last year, nearly half of all teenagers bought no compact discs, a dramatic increase from 2006, when 38% of teens shunned such purchases, according to a new report released Tuesday.
The illegal sharing of music online continued to soar in 2007, but there was one sign of hope that legal downloading was picking up steam. In the last year, Apple Inc.’s iTunes store, which sells only digital downloads, jumped ahead of Best Buy Co. to become the No. 2 U.S. music seller, trailing Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Source: Le Monde
I used to have a colleague who swore by MSN Live Spaces, 100% convinced that that’s where the “kids” were. Um…
Interesting to see Friendster top the list in the Asia Pacific. I thought they were pretty much done…
According to cbc.ca:
The Black Crowes say an album review by Maxim magazine was fabricated because advance CDs were not available.
[snip]
The band’s manager, Pete Angelus, said the band raised the issue with Maxim, which, he said, responded in an e-mail with the following: “Of course, we always prefer to [sic] hearing music, but sometimes there are big albums that we don’t want to ignore that aren’t available to hear, which is what happened with the Crowes. It’s either an educated guess preview or no coverage at all, so in this case we chose the former.”
Maxim, which has not confirmed the authenticity of the e-mail message to Angelus, released this statement in response: “Maxim will continue to provide our readers with information that is important to them, whether it is about fashion, lifestyle, technology, music, movies and more.”
So bad.
From this week’s popbitch:
Boston shoot down Huckabee
The founder of soft rock heroes Boston, Tom Sholz, is angry that Mike Huckabee is using their classic track, More Than a Feeling, in his campaign. “Boston has never endorsed a political candidate”, he says, “and with all due respect, would not start by endorsinga candidate who is the polar opposite of most everything Boston stands for. In fact, although I’m impressed you learned my bass guitar part on More Than a Feeling, I am an Obama supporter.”Boston Stuff you should know:
1. More Than a Feeling” took five years to write.2. Scholz credits Walk Away Renee by The Left Banke as the song’s inspiration.
3. Scholz also invented the Rockman Guitar Amp.
4. More Than A Feeling can be heard in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, when a car pulls up to McDonald’s as the UFOs cause power outage
5. Popbitch once made a very limited edition cover of the track. Sadly our studio time was cut short due to our managing to offend a well-known rap star at the time.
6. Scholtz’ charitable foundation has raised millions of dollars for animals, homeless shelters and children’s rights.
More Than a Feeling inspired by Walk Away Renee!!??
Isn’t Clive Thomspon great?
Here’s an introduction to one of his latest pieces: Is the Tipping Point Toast?
These days, it’s become popular to talk about “influentials” — people who are so charismatic and well-connected that they can start or accelerate trends. It was one of the big ideas in Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, and it positively captivates marketers: The entire concept of “viral” marketing is based on the idea that if you get a cool product or idea into the right people’s hands, those elite folk will tip the product into a nationwide trend. It’s an intuitive picture of the world, because it matches our deep, unstated assumption that the grown-up world is basically like high school. Everyone wants to copy the cool kids.
But is this really how trends work?
It’s a good read, especially if some of your thoughts on marketing are influenced by Gladwell. And really, how could they not? It’s amazing how many times that book is still cited in my professional life - and I’m not complaining. I still think there’s good reason to buy into the roles of mavens, connectors and salesmen but social media didn’t really exist when Gladwell wrote Tipping Point, so we need to evolve the theory a little.
Just as we’re all “prosumers” in this ever-quickening age (watch the accompanying video with this), through social media and 2.0-type tools, we all have the potential to be powerful connectors.
And that’s basically the gist of this article:
He (Duncan Watts, a network scientist at Columbia University) has analyzed email patterns and found that highly connected people are not, in fact, crucial social hubs. He has written computer models of rumor spreading and found that your average slob is just as likely as a well-connected person to start a huge new trend.
So, what happens when you try to talk to a record label executive about this shift:
Not everyone appreciates the mind bomb Watts has tossed into their midst. He says one music executive pronounced his work “bullshit” on the spot. But a growing group of marketers believes Watts is radically altering the way companies attempt to produce trends.
In the executive’s defense, not many senior marketing types are hip to Watts’ new theory.
Read the article and decide for yourself. As for my opinion, I think the quality of the product will always make the difference when you’re attempting a word-of-mouth marketing campaign. Would Nickelback be as popular without radio and mass marketing?
via afrojacks.com…
Download Amplive’s Rainydayz Remixes, an 8-track collection featuring remixes of Radiohead’s historic seventh album, In Rainbows. The songs are available in a zip file below and feature verses courtesy of Too $hort, MC Zumbi of Zion I, Chali2na of Jurassic 5, and Del the Funky Homosapien.
Tracklist
01 Rainydayz
02 Video Tapez (ft. Del The Funky Homosapien)
03 Nudez (ft. Too $hort & MC Zumbi of Zion I)
04 Weird Fishez
05 All I Need
06 15 Stepz (ft. Codany Holiday)
07 Reckonerz (ft. Chali2na)
08 Faustz
Tags: in rainbows remixes, radiohead
I was just listening to an interview with Dee Snider on Q (Jian Ghomeshi’s show on the ceeb) and they were discussing Dee’s new show, “Dead Art”, a ten-part “journey through the iron gates of a strange yet beautiful private community, one whose views are so spectacular that its occupants have opted to take up permanent residence…”
Anyway, they got on to talkin’ about Dee’s own plans for his final place of rest and it was decided that listeners should help him with his epitaph.
So, what do you think the twisted one should have engraved on his headstone?
Email q@cbc.ca
Listen to the interview via podcast.
Sources: gat.ca
Tags: cbc, cemetery, dead art, dee snider, epitaph, gravestone, graveyard, headstone, jian ghomeshi, q
From radicaltrust.ca
The children’s music CD “Music Soup” by Jen Gould had been out for a few months when her husband Hayes Steinberg (a former colleague of mine at MacLAREN McCANN in Toronto) came up with an idea to get the word out about it.
Hayes put together a Facebook group called “Kids Love Jen Gould’s Music Soup” in support of her efforts. He invited all of his friends to join the group. Upon learning of the CD, some parents in Hayes’ social sphere downloaded a copy of the album from iTunes. The vast majority of his friends however, simply showed their support by joining his Facebook group.
The power of social networking was about to kick in. A simple request to join the group went out to Hayes’ social sphere of over 150 people, this combined to create the potential reach of tens of thousands - each quite possibly reading in their Facebook ‘newsfeed’ that a friend had joined a group proclaiming “Kids Love Jen Gould’s Music Soup”. You can’t buy that kind of quality media - awareness and endorsement all wrapped up in a message of support.
Read the rest over at radicaltrust.ca
Tags: canadian+music, juno
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