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Alpha Kitty is Coming
2007-10-04 19:41:00 The former editor of Cosmogirl is launching a series of youtube videos. Check the article out here. More About: Trends , Kitty , Alpha
EVE 6 is Back!
2007-10-04 19:36:00 Always one of our favorite bands Eve 6 has reunited! Eve 6 have reunited, following the act’s initial disbandment in July of 2004. The group plan to write and record their next, full-length effort early next year, with a full, North American headlining tour expected to follow shortly after. More About: Music , Artists , Back
Short Stuff on Music
2007-10-04 14:26:00 Watch Mayday Parade perform their new song Black Cat here. Fat Mike and NOFX will release their next live effort, They’ve Actually Gotten Worse Live, on CD and colored vinyl November 20th courtesy of Fat Wreck Chords. Less Than Jake will be heading back into the studio in March to begin tracking their next record.The Boys Like ... More About: Music , Artists , Stuff , Short
Next Top Author Contest
2007-10-04 04:09:00 Amazon, Penguin Group and Hewlett-Packard have teamed up to bring us the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Starting November 5th, authors with an unpublished, English-language novel manuscript can enter their work for consideration. Submissions can be sent through CreateSpace, the self-publishing service which is part of the Amazon online family of properties. The contest will last ... More About: Contest , Schools , Trends , Author
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus November 15th at FAU
2007-10-02 14:27:00 The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus will be playing at Florida Atlantic University on November 15th. Tickets soon at fauevents.com and at the FAU box office. Between the Trees has also been confirmed. There are 2 other amazing acts waiting to be confirmed and should be announced by the end of this week. Tickets are expected to ... More About: Music , Events , Artists
Radiohead Lets Fans Chose Price of Download
2007-10-01 16:32:00 In a break from industry tradition the UK band famous for hits including Creep, Paranoid Android and Karma Police, has told fans “it’s up to you” what they pay to digitally download the album. This isn’t the first time that an artist has opted to charge nothing for its album, but the move is significant ... More About: Music , Fans , Download , Artists , Radiohead
New Great Music This Week October 2nd!
2007-10-01 13:46:00 The Spill Canvas have launched a full-album stream in support of their upcoming effort, No Really, I’m Fine, on their purevolume profile. The album is scheduled for a worldwide release on October 2nd on Sire Records. Be sure to check out We the Kings. Their cd drops on October 2nd on S CURVE Records. Vagrant’s John Ralston’s ... More About: Music , Great , Artists , Week
Friday Night Lights
2007-10-01 13:18:00 Great article in Variety about my favorite show NBC’s Friday Night Lights . The new season starts this Friday (can you believe they finally moved it to Friday?}. The writing on this show has the ability to make ordinary people’s lives extraordinary by revealing their troubles and triumphs. The article reveals, Yet there are no wholly ... More About: Friday Night Lights
MTV-2 Dew Circuit Breakout 2007 Challenge
2007-09-29 23:01:00 The MTV-2 Dew Circuit Brea kout 2007 Challenge has started. If you are in a band and think you can win it all, sign up here. More About: Music , Artists
Mayday Parade Acoustic-So Good!!
2007-09-29 03:30:00 Click here to hear 2 acoustic songs from mayday parade. The songs are Miserable at Best (My favorite track on the cd) and Three Cheers for Five Years. More About: Music , Acoustic , Artists , Good , Parade
Housing More affordable than a Condo
2007-09-28 17:07:00 The University of Colorado in Boulder had a group of students spend $44,000 to design and renovate an affordable housing project in Boulder, one of the most expensive real estate markets in the state. The home was unveiled to the public at an open house on September 21. The money was donated by the University ... More About: Schools , Trends , Condo , Housing
Check out College Tonight: Get on, Get Up and Get Out!
2007-09-27 23:17:00 From Mashable The social network is going to promote socializing, as they launch a 9-month, 116 campus promotional tour under the motto ?Get on, Get Up, Get Out?. The site believes that the other networks are more ?anti-social networks? as they don?t promote actual in-person socializing, something that college students are known to prefer. College Tonight will work ... More About: Schools , Trends , Check
Apple 2007 Insomnia Film Festival
2007-09-27 14:20:00 Check out the Apple 2007 Insomnia Film Festival . Open to high school and college student filmmakers in the US (see the Apple terms and conditions), the festival invites student teams to write, cast, shoot, edit, score, and upload a 3-minute, original film just 24 hours after we release a ?top-secret? elements list to all registering ... More About: Events , Schools
Atreyu?s on Guitar Hero 3!
2007-09-26 21:32:00 Atreyu have been hard at work supporting the release of their new album, Lead Sails Paper Anchor. The first single off the album, ?Becoming The Bull,? broke into the top 10 at Active Rock radio this week and hopes to buck it?s way up to the top spot. The band?s headline tour is coming to ... More About: Music , Guitar , Artists , Hero , Guitar Hero
Short Takes
2007-09-26 13:57:00 Dashboard Confessional have also made one of their new songs entitled “Keep Watch for the Mines” available for streaming on their myspace page. NOFX will issue their second live effort, They’ve Actually Gotten Worse Live, on November 20th courtesy of Fat Wreck Chords. Socratic have launched an exclusive, tour-only pre-order for their forthcoming, full-length effort, which is ... More About: Music , Artists , Short
Check Amazon?s ?DRM FREE? download store
2007-09-25 20:31:00 Song downloads $.89 and .99, albums $5.99 to 8.99. Will download to any music player because they are DRM FREE. Amazon ’s new music store in public beta, check it out today. More About: Music , Download , Free , Artists
Get some music with that that coffee!
2007-09-25 14:04:00 To promote the new partnership with Apple and its wi-fi music store, Starbucks will be handing out 50 million iTunes songs to U.S. customers between October 2 and November 7, 2007. The new wi-fi Music Store features will be debuting at select Starbucks locations. This little bit of funness is free, and will allow ... More About: Events , Coffee , Trends , Some
Virgin Mobile Sued?..
2007-09-24 20:35:00 Virgin Mobile Sued For Causing Teen Grief and Humiliation in Ad Three months ago, Adrants reported Virgin Mobile catching some heat for using images from Flickr in an Australian ad campaign. Today, the media is all aflutter over the story because the family of one of the people featured in the campaign is suing Virgin Mobile ... More About: Trends , Bile
My Space for Your Cell Phone
2007-09-24 14:06:00 MySpace is launching a free, advertising-supported cell phone version today as part of a wider bid by parent News Corp. to attract advertising for mobile Web sites. Fox Interactive Media, which oversees News Corp.’s Internet properties, said it also plans to roll out versions of FoxSports.com, the gaming site IGN, AskMen and its local TV affiliates ... More About: Phone , Cell Phone , Trends , Cell
The Almost Acoustic Performance
2007-09-24 03:17:00 Check out The Almost performing “Say this Sooner” acoustically here More About: Music , Performance , Acoustic , Artists , Perform
10 Video Game Discoveries
2007-09-23 14:26:00 1. The maximum achievable score possible in a game of Pac-Man is 3,333,360 points. (so quit trying for 4+ cause it aint gonna happen). 2.The first ever product released by Sony was a rice cooker. 3. In the original arcade Donkey Kong game, Mario was called Jumpman and he was a carpenter, not a plumber. 4.There are 504 ... More About: Video , Video Games , Game , Video Game , Discoveries
Can?t Tase This-MC Hammer Remix
2007-09-22 14:37:00 Take a look here! More About: Schools , Remix , Hammer , Remi , MC Hammer
Short Stuff
2007-09-21 21:22:00 From last year’s Take Action Tour Press Conference: Kaddisfly have made a b-side entitled “Flowers” available for streaming on their myspace profile. The track was cut from the group’s latest release, Set Sail the Prairie, which is available now courtesy of Sub City Records. Stream the new AllTimeLow album This is How We Do It here . It’s ... More About: Music , Trends , Artists , Stuff , Short
Friday Night Lights Preview
2007-09-20 17:31:00 Want to watch the premiere of Friday Night Lights before it airs on tv? You can watch it here! Taylor Kitsch and All…. More About: Preview , Friday Night Lights
Indiependent Music here
2007-09-19 19:18:00 The latest issue of Indiependent Music is available for free download here. Great interview so check it out. You can download it and print it out so you don’t go crazy reading it. More About: Trends , Artists , Epen
A Green Way to Recharge
2007-09-19 17:08:00 Got a lot of little recharging devices to take with you? HYmini? is an ingenious, new Universal charger/adapter device that harnesses basic, simple wind power to recharge almost all your 5V digital gadgets. It?s the first and only gadget of its kind, one that makes ?green power? more accessible than ever. HYmini is a ... More About: Trends , Green , Char
Rooney hits the road
2007-09-18 22:52:00 Rooney have unveiled the schedule for their forthcoming headlining tour, on which the quintet will feature support from The Polyphonic Spree and The Redwalls. The group will be touring in support of its latest release, Calling the World, which is available now via Geffen Records. Tour Dates Oct 14 2007 Crofoot Ballroom Pontiac, Michigan Oct 15 2007 Bogarts ... More About: Music , Artists , Hits , Road
Nonpoint In Concert with Skindred and Ankla
2007-09-18 16:22:00 October 26th at Revolution 200 W. Broward Blvd in Fort Lauderdale. Formed in Miami in 1997, Nonpoint is an interracial alternative metal/rap-metal foursome that consists of vocalist Elias Soriano, drummer Robb Rivera, guitarist Andrew Goldman and bassist K. Bastard. Occasionally, the bilingual Sorian sings and raps in Spanish, although the vast majority of Nonpoint’s lyrics are ... More About: Music , Concert , Artists , Cert
Trapt coming your way with Fuel
2007-09-18 02:12:00 Platinum selling Alternative Rock band TRAPT is back with a live album to whet the appetite of fans while the band completes finishing touches on their next studio release, set to drop in early 2008. TRAPT Live!, the band’s first release on Eleven Seven Music /ADA, and their first album since 2005’s Someone In Control, certified ... More About: Fuel , Artists
Radio Discovers Texting
More articles from this author:2007-09-17 17:06:00 It seems calling in to win will soon be a thing of the past with radio stations. They have discovered discovered how strong a response contests receive when the response is a “text message”. We’d rather text than dial…..well maybe some of us. From Reuters: Radio stations nationwide slowly are incorporating mobile text-messaging systems that let listeners ... More About: Trends , Discover , Disc , Adio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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