July52008
Ray Charles - America The Beautiful
In celebration of July 4th and cover day Friday, Happy Birthday America, from sea to shining sea.
Photo by Stuck in Customs
Reblogged from joe lazarus.
July42008
MasterCard Campaign Offers Free UMG Downloads »
From Billboard:
MasterCard this week launched a campaign with an extensive music component.
As part of a new campaign dubbed “Roots of Rock” from New York ad agency McCann-Erickson the credit card maker is offering MasterCard holders free downloads from the entire Universal Music Group catalog from priceless.com.
SeeqPod takes on Muxtape with `PodLists’ (via Musically)
From readwriteweb / Sarah Perez
The music search engine SeeqPod has just announced a new service for music fans: “PodLists.” Because of the massive amount of playable search results available on the SeeqPod service - 12 million at the moment and ever-growing - it can be difficult to find music that you like. Sites like Last.fm rely on social recommendations to help you find new artists, but SeeqPod’s take is a bit different. Instead of launching social features, they’ll be posting fresh, customized playlists to the site’s homepage on a daily basis.
Each PodList will have an identifying theme - for example, today’s include the “SeeqPod Top 20,” “Old School Rap,” and “Funk For Ya Trunk.” The idea is that instead of having social recommendations in place, you can be exposed to more kinds of music by playing a daily playlist that highlights some of the tracks that can be found on SeeqPod. In a way, this also turns SeeqPod into an online radio station of sorts - one where they don’t bombard you with the same tunes over and over again, but one where the station changes identities every day.
July32008
Who's laughing now? »
Oasis’s “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory” album has seen a 200% increase in sales since Jay-Z did a mocking cover version of Wonderwall at Glastonbury.
Reblogged from A shot of JD.
Sock, Vol. 3: High Life - matt
Just in time for the 4th of July I’ve served you up another hearty bowl of soul/rock/sock. There’s some real nuggets tucked in here, so just let this one ride its course. This one just DRIVES! Ok. That’s all I got.
HIGH LIFE (.Zip file, 57.2 MB)
http://www.divshare.com/download/4860751-7b9
‘Cause summer’s here and the time is right for playing music in the streets, boy…
- Respect - The Soul Survivors
- Soul Dance, No. 3 - Carl Holmes and the Commanders
- Different Strokes - Syl Johnson
- Breaking Out Pt1 - Wild Bill Davis
- Hook Line and Sinker - Art Neville
- The Price of Love - Little Sherman & the Mod Swingers
- Shake and Shingaling, pt. 1 - Gene Waiters
- Pass the Hatchet, Pt. 1 - Roger & the Gypsies
- Midnight Hour - Little Mac & the Boss Sounds
- Everybody’s Got To Change Sometime - Taj Mahal
- Why Don’t You Do Your Thing - Jackie Wilson
- Do The Whoopie - Sugarpie Desanto
- 1 2 5 - The Haunted
- It’s Not Easy - The Swamp Rats
- Own Up Time - The Small Faces
- Nothing But a Heartache - The Flirtations
- Jumpin’ Jack Flash - Thelma Houston
Reblogged from we share music.
Recorded Music Market Share By Label
31.2% (down .3%) Universal Music Group
20.8% (up.8%) Warner Music Group
24.8% (down .5%) Sony BMG
13.9% (up 1%) Independents
9.4% (down 1%) EMI
(increase/decrease form the year before)
How that for perspective?
Reblogged from APRIL'S LOG OF SHIT SHE LIKES.
"I think when you, the listener, get to the point that you’re noticing the production or playing techniques replicated from band to band, that’s the sign that it’s time for the listener to move on to new sounds."
—
Scott from Pretty Goes with Pretty
‘genre fatigue’… it’s real, bitches. Expand your horizons. Here are three suggestions for fantastic music outsides your usual realm:
And no I’m not telling you what they cover. Your job to come to that conclusion yourself.
(via aprilini)
Reblogged from APRIL'S LOG OF SHIT SHE LIKES.