UPDATED AGAIN! April 16/17: Linkin Park – Burn it Down Download Day & News Roundup
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I've just decided to update this post instead of making a new one. Linkin Park have finally released "Burn it Down" today! You can get the song FOR FREE when you preorder Linkin Park's upcoming album "Living Things on linkinpark.com. The preorder is starting at 1pm PST! You'll also get 8 remixes of songs from the new album FOR FREE and early access to ticket sales for the North American Tour, when you preorder the album! All in all, I think preordering "Living Things" is really the smartest decision you can make!
As soon as you've downloaded the track on iTunes/Amazon or anywhere else OR preordered the album, share the download link on Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr! You can tweet something like "I've just downloaded Linkin Park's new single #BurnItDown on XY" + Link or "I've just preordered Linkin Park's new album #LivingThings" and got #BurnItDown for free!" + Link. Don't forget to include the download link and the hashtag #BurnItDown in your tweets.
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Video: The Evolution of Music Online
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puC38rhREvc
As the 90s came to a close, the business of music began to change profoundly. New technology allowed artists to record and produce their own music and music videos, and the internet became a free-for-all distribution platform for musicians to promote themselves to audiences across the world. The result was a massive influx of artists onto the cultural scene, and audiences were left wondering how to sort through them all. In this episode we discuss these changes, and reveal how music blogs and websites have arisen as the new arbiters of quality.
Featuring:
Jon Cohen, Co-Founder, FADER Label
Ryan Dombal, Senior Editor, Pitchfork
Blake Whitman, VP of Creative Development, Vimeo
Anthony Volodkin, Founder, Hype Machine
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OutListen’s Crowdsourced Concert Videos: A New Music Format
OutListen aims to pair fan videos with soundboard audio to create crowdsourced concert videos. Image modified from OutListen.com
Attending a show is different now. Everybody’s holding up a cellphone shooting video instead of watching and listening. This doesn’t have to be a 100-percent bad thing, however.
A startup called OutListen intends to turn this sow’s ear into a silk purse by encouraging concertgoers to upload their smartphone footage to an online calendar. If enough people upload footage from the same show, OutListen will cobble it all together by syncing the audio waveforms (clever), so that the band (or more likely their “people”) can add the high-quality audio track they hopefully remembered to record at the show, and then release the result as a new type of music product: the crowdsourced concert video.
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Brit Awards: Nominees & Performers
Date: February 21, 2012
Performers: Ed Sheeran, Blur, Bruno Mars, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Adele, Florence & The Machine, Rihanna & Coldplay.
Nominees (My choices in bold letters)
British Male Solo Artist
Ed Sheeran
James Blake
James Morrison
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Professor Green
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New Video: Meg Myers – Monster
Photo: Meg Myers
Meg Myers has one of the most interesting voices I've ever heard. She's amazing! Check out her new video for "Monster":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQqZg5BisE&
Here's an article from Nylon Magazine about her:
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This is amazing! Download the album here, it's great and free!
Listen to it after the jump! ...
One of my favourite new artists, Meg Myers, has just released her EP "Daughter in the Choir", which you can download here for free!
If you want to stay updated about Meg, check out her website, her Twitter or her Facebook!
Listen to the EP after the jump! ...