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I love, love, love technology. The robots provide me hope whereas the humans seem to repeat their mistakes millenium after millenium...

I like most things new, and we'll be sure to use software like Ping.fm. It supposedly allows you to send a single update to multiple networks simultaneously. Hence for our purposes it'd be cool to get the word out on all our artists and their music all with one click. ...

Who can we blame but ourselves for this music industry collapse? From misfired lawsuits against grandmothers to imprisonment of the creators of The Pirate Bay, I’d prefer to believe we are a people of ideas rather than a people who cave into fear and top-down, market controls. ...

Yay! What better day, than on Stevie Wonder's birthday to hear that the House Judiciary Committee favorably reported the legislation yesterday by a vote of 21-9. "Today the House Judiciary Committee approved the Performance Rights Act (H.R. 848)...

Even though the World Health Organization did a good job in keeping media outlets plugged in with information about the swine flu, the CDC (Centers For Disease Control And Prevention) is doing an even better job utilizing Twitter and Google providing real-time updates while monitoring the...

So I might not be the most savvy Facebook member in their user database, but I have to give props to another one of the web 2.0 modes of getting out some good music. It was only recently that I'd noticed one of my friends to have set up an ...

A friend of mine who works at a major music publisher pointed out to me a new charting system that could shake the foundations of how A&R; market their artists. Vying for top spots on charts such as Billboard, many of the industry's majors would agree, is a cutthroat fight based ...

As the world's largest music market, don't you find it odd that the US is the only country in the world that does not pay royalties to recording artists for terrestrial radio airplay? Let's change that! Go to the musicFIRST website ( www.musicfirstcoalition.org ) to learn how to call up ...

Today is just weird. As my first blog post ever on this May Day it also only seems weirder that the topic would be about death. Late yesterday afternoon, I’d received word that my colleague Ryan Cain had passed away. The effect of the event was/continues to be more shocking ...

Legendary jazz drummer Chico Hamilton has a new album out: Twelve Tones of Love Check out the video for a taste of the music and some words from the man himself:

Peter Jay has been so kind as to hook us up with his brand new mix. Download Q&A; The Mix Here's the word from Peter: I have just put out a new mix entitled Q&A.; Its a mix of really dope soultechjazzyfunkdisco house music layered with samples of interviews of artists such as ...

We like to support our independent brethren, so here's a cool lil contest the folks at independent clothing retailer Always Urban, are hosting. Check out the official word below and go vote for your favorite. You will get a 10% discount just for voting! Click here to vote - you ...

Get the album Conflict at MobileUnderground Nationwide on BETJ Friday, April 24, 2009 - BETJ's video top ten aka Soul Sessions Countdown will air TODAY at 6pm (check your local listings though... for instance California DirecTV customers will see this program at 3pm)...

The ever-stylish Peter Hadar has just released a video for "Planets" taken from Well Dressed For The Art Show . The video features eye candy of all kinds--cute 'n' spacey animation alongside Victoria's Secret model Selita Ebanks.