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  • Blogs

    October 5, 2012

    Now That's What I Call Good News!: Now! Music Series To Give Up The Ghost

    Not all signs of the record biz's struggle for life are depressing. Thanks to EMI's $1.9 billion merger with Universal Music Group, a few things will get shaken up, including a chance the wretched informercial sludge Now That's What I Call Music! series will be put six feet under.

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2012

    No, Seriously: Chumbawamba Have A Storied Anarchist Past

    Last week Chumbawamba, the nonsensically named band responsible for the ubiquitous nonsensically named hit "Tubthumping," announced it was calling it quits after 30 years. The news item drew reactions ranging from "Oh yeah, that 'I get knocked down' '90's band?" to "They were still around?" and also ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2012

    Calvin Harris Announced as Headliner for Sound Wave Music Festival

    See also: Club Candids: Calvin Harris at Myst See also: Sound Wave Music Festival 2012 Announced for September When Scottish electopop producer and vocalist Calvin Harris appeared in Scottsdale in January, he nearly caused a riot. Thousands of club kids and EDM fans were crushed into the now-defunc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Literal Band Names: Radiohead, Black Keys, Meat Puppets, and More

    There are some weird band names out there, so we let our imaginations go wild to envision what some of these names would literally look like. We chose Radiohead as our jumping off point because love them or hate them, the band is playing at Jobing.com arena tonight, and it's sure to be one of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    What's Selling? Top Ten Lists from Valley Record Stores

    Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues ​Want to know what new release discs and platters are moving across the Valley at local record stores? We've got you covered with another installment of What's Selling. Looks like Fleet Foxes are doing pretty well this week, with their heady folk album Helples ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Warner Music Group for Sale: The Multi-Billion Dollar Battle for Ownership Winds Down this Week

    Wikimedia CommonsWarner Music Group artist Madonna​Warner Music Group -- home to acts like Led Zeppelin, Green Day, and Tempe-based indie rock band The Maine -- is for sale. If you think it's tough outbidding other eBay users for a rare record, you should see the bidding battle currently underway ... More >>

  • Music

    March 24, 2011
  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Five Japanese Bands For Your Heavy Rotation

    Jonathan McNamaraHystoic Vein performs at the Japan Preview Day Show during SXSW 2011.​U.S. fans of Japanese Music face one, ever-present obstacle in their quests to discover new J bands: They're not here. Up on the Sun constantly monitors upcoming concerts from Japanese bands. In good years, that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Interpol's Sam Fogarino Talks Carlos D, Record Labels and What's Next For The Band

    Interpol​ In this week's print edition we ran a story about the the recent reboot of New York City's most fashionable gloom-rockers Interpol. For the piece we caught up with Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino to talk about some of the recent changes the band has undergone. Most notably of which is th ... More >>

  • Music

    January 13, 2011
  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Now on iTunes: The Beatles Catalog

    ​Stop the world. Apple has announced that the Beatles catalog is finally available on iTunes, according to Billboard. I love when Christmas comes early.After plenty of rumors went around yesterday about what Apple's big announcement regarding iTunes was going to be, practically everything under th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    What Does The Suburbs Hitting #1 Mean for Indie Rock?

    ​Arcade Fire is an indie band. I don't say that just because they sound like an indie band -- though they do -- but because they're actually signed to an indie label.All three Arcade Fire albums came out on Merge, a North Carolina-based company that was started in 1989 so D-I-Yers Superchunk could ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening

    ​What more can be said about May's slate of new releases that hasn't already been said? I have been proclaiming this month as the year's best for new releases, and LCD Soundsystem only solidify that with their newest effort, This Is Happening. The lead single from the album "Drunk Girls" was a war ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper Collaborate on Nonprofit Lipstick Line

    ​It's never surprising when Lady Gaga makes headlines, and given that Cyndi Lauper has been laying down the law on Celebrity Apprentice, it should come as no surprise that she's making headlines with her own ventures outside of the show. According to feministing, Lauper and Gaga teamed up with the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Chris Martin Pissed With EMI?

    Chris Martin​Apparently, Chris Martin and his record label, EMI, are not on the same page when it comes to news about when Coldplay's new album coming is out. Martin says it will hopefully be released by Christmas of this year, but EMI says that isn't true. Apparently, when asked whether Coldplay' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Was John Mayer's Racist Comment Taken Out of Context?

    ​No, not exactly. The recent controversy over John Mayer's interview with Playboy has been discussed from nearly every angle since the article came out. The journalist who interviewed him, Rob Tannenbaum, said that there was much more to the interview than the tiny blip that got repeated, re-poste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Big Four Music Labels to Launch New CMX Album Download Format

    Music's big four are launching CMX in the hopes of offering fans more for their digital music download bang -- will it work?​As announced Saturday, the Big Four music labels -- Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal -- are all planning a new technology that will allow an album sleeve to be included in di ... More >>

  • Music

    June 18, 2009
  • Music

    October 25, 2007

    Joni Mitchell

    Shine
    (Hear Music)

  • Music

    April 12, 2007

    The Price of Payola

    Someone's listening after all

  • Music

    March 22, 2007

    Everyone Gets a Deal!

    The son of Napster moves to sign every unsigned band on Earth

  • Music

    January 26, 2006

    Greene Party

    The producer

  • Music

    March 4, 2004

    Kings of the Castle

    Rap duo Akwid represents a new generation of Mexican Americans

  • Music

    September 18, 2003

    Richard X

    Richard X Presents His X-Factor Vol. 1 (Astralwerks)

  • Culture

    April 11, 2002

    When Online Got Off Base

    Or: How Mark Cuban would have and could have saved the music biz

  • Music

    March 21, 2002

    Cyber-Hit Factory

    Tonos.com is connecting aspiring songwriters with the teen-pop music machine

  • Music

    February 7, 2002

    File Shearing

    After whacking Napster, the labels needed their own digital download alternatives, and fast. It shows.

  • Music

    January 10, 2002

    Southern Knights

    Reissue of two classic early '80s albums spotlights the seminal power-pop magic of the dB's

  • Music

    December 20, 2001

    Haul the Dreck

    It seems every fa-la-la-la-lousy Christmas recording is in light rotation, but not these holiday turkeys

  • Music

    November 29, 2001

    Famous and Tired

    Pop stars complain about their jobs like everyone else. Here's what's happened when some of their gripes have actually made it to tape.

  • Music

    October 18, 2001

    Bellvue

    To Be Somebody (Golden Seal)

  • Music

    August 9, 2001

    Sleaze Queens

    The hard-rocking women of the L.A.-based Betty Blowtorch prove their mettle with Are You Man Enough?

  • Music

    November 16, 2000

    Hanging On to Something

    Older, wiser Pistoleros are no longer defined by rock 'n' roll, but they're still committed to it

  • Music

    November 2, 2000

    Bop the Question

    Drawing insight from the month's best in jazz, blues and heritage, Gumbo answers readers' nagging queries

  • Music

    July 27, 2000

    Britneymania!

    What would the face of rock history have looked like if the British Invasion had been a Britney Invasion instead?

  • Music

    February 17, 2000

    Beer, Cigarettes and Has-Beens

    Stumbling through 48 hours in Hollywood

  • Music

    November 25, 1999

    Replica for a Heavyweight

    Will EMI's remastering of 11 classic albums with the original packaging on CD and 180-gram vinyl make you buy your favorite records one more (last?) time?

  • Music

    September 30, 1999
  • News

    September 16, 1999

    Sub-mission

    After 30 years, Apple finally does Yellow Submarine right

  • Music

    September 2, 1999

    Celebrate Good Times, C'mon!

    Merge and Matador reach 10 years of indie success

  • Music

    June 10, 1999

    Jonesing for Joan

    Trashman laments the decline of the American record store, and gets his Joan Jett fix

  • News

    April 8, 1999

    Concealed Weapons

    Despite some misfires, The Pistoleros keep looking for a break and say that rumors of their demise are greatly exaggerated

  • Music

    December 3, 1998

    Kind of a Drag

    With Atomic Cafe defunct, Victims In Ecstacy try to establish a new base for their heavy camp

  • Music

    December 18, 1997

    The Trashman

    Where unit-shifting heroes of rock are exposed as the passionless poseurs they really are

  • Music

    November 6, 1997

    Playing God

    The Artist gives a divine performance while saying to hell with the music industry

  • Music

    August 28, 1997
  • Music

    January 9, 1997
  • Music

    August 1, 1996

    Contract and Expel

    Famous parting shots from artists formerly "under exclusive arrangement" with their labels

  • Music

    May 9, 1996
  • Music

    March 30, 1995
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