Nope, it's not Tommy Lee vs. Neil Peart. It's not John Bonham vs Keith Moon. It's Buddy Rich vs. Animal. That's right. Animal. Elmo's whacked out black sheep uncle.
Buddy Rich is the obvious winner here. He's the greatest Jazz drummer who ever lived, able to bang out monster beats at a speed and precision that would tax even the most exacting of robot drummers from a creepy musical future. That...
Indie publishers get boost, radio gets off scot-free
The FCC isn't quite as aggressive as Eliot Spitzer and, as a result, radio may well end up walking away essentially unscathed by the payola probe started by New York's pro-active attorney general. This quote from the Hollywood Reporter nearly makes me want to gag, "While details of the Enforcement Bureau's proposal were sketchy, sources said that radio station groups would be required to set aside a certain amount of airtime for music produced independently. The radio groups also would agree...
Rebel DJ's, DJ Adrian and The Mysterious D have released what they call "Best of Bootie 2006", a full mixed contiguous mashup that cuts razor slices through the best of 30 years of music, then bakes them until crisp and golden brown.
Get it while it's hot, I can't imagine it will be available long. Mashups include highlights like "Crazy Logic", combining Supertramp's "Logical Song", Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" and Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" into what...
A new survey by The Digital Media Association says online consumers are driving music in new ways, and causing a renaissance among music fans.
According to the survey, "The vast majority of online music service users report that enjoying music over the Internet has expanded their musical tastes, allowing them to discover new artists and explore new music genres. About 25 percent reported having discovered a lot of new artists, while...
Pandora exec speaks about advertisements in stream
Yesterday we told you that Pandora is starting to insert advertisements into its audio stream, something that came as a bit of a shock to long time Pandora listeners and fans.
We spoke with Pandora's CTO Tom Conrad last night about the move, and he reassured us that the Pandora most of us know and love isn't going to change overnight. Questions in bold, answers in italics. How "wide" is the current trial, and...
AV Club points finger at least essential albums of 2006
The Onion's AV club went digging for the anti top-list, and came up with the "least essential albums of 2006." It's a pretty heady selection, which the AV club explains in this fashion, "Every year produces great music and a nearly equal amount of terrible music. Then there's the not-so-creamy middle, the albums that have no real reason to exist, but nonetheless find their way to music-store shelves."
The list includes totally inessential favorites like The Cars (without just about everyone who was...
Robots are at it again. Those crafty automatons have been working hard to put together a CD of infinite indie wisdom, packed full of bands on the edge of hotness.
"Us robots scoured the world for amazing music, from the hallowed halls of our nation's capital, to the rain-soaked streets of Glasgow. We traveled as far afield as Sweden and the UK, as well as Chicago, LA, Minneapolis, and New York City. In between we found a cohesive,...
I'm a big fan of internet collaboration. I've remixed other artists, and been remixed myself, and the idea of widespread colaboration that would never otherwise take place is a heavy concept that sometimes produces gold.
But, what about that sort of colaboration via YouTube? This series of three videos (take the jump to see #2 and #3) shows one example of how collaborating via Youtube can actually work.
The FCC isn't quite as aggressive as Eliot Spitzer and, as a result, radio may well end up walking away essentially unscathed by the payola probe started by New York's pro-active attorney general. This quote from the 
Rebel DJ's, DJ Adrian and The Mysterious D have 
A new 
The Onion's AV club went digging for the anti top-list, and came up with the "
