Eliot Van Buskirk of Wired’s Listening Post blog is at the Digital Music Forum East this week, and he noted a somewhat odd statistic:
But at the first day of the Digital Music Forum East conference yesterday, Music Choice CEO David Del Beccaro, who occasionally affected an overly calm voice in a possible attempt to make the other panelists sound frenetic by comparison, dropped an interesting piece of satellite radio science during the kickoff panel, “The State of the Digital Music Union.”
He claimed, “music is fourth on satellite radio behind Howard Stern, sports, and news.”
– Police are looking into whether singer James Blunt committed a “foot-and-run” in Los Angeles earlier this week. More »
Oh, T-Pain–how you torture us! Every time we start falling for one of your dumbed-down strip-club odes, you kick in with those ridiculously hammy vocal effects. More »
Welcome to another edition of Track Marks, in which your Idolators perform an autopsy on the latest band burning up the MP3-blogger charts. More »
– More Beatles covers than you can shake a silver hammer at. [Power Pop Lovers] – A few cuts from the Seattle funk scene of 40 years ago. [The Smudge Of Ashen Fluff] – “Christina Aguilera is a hell of a lot more fun, and aurally rewarding, to listen to than Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s.” More »
Not everybody had a dull time on Oscar night: According to TMZ.com, the LAPD are looking into an alleged Sunday-evening run-in between Diddy and a lowly commoner: Gerard Rechnitzer was at a post-Oscar bash Sunday night with his fiancee at Teddy’s at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. More »
From the Sun, which will apparently deliver these en masse to the beleaguered pop star once some sort of critical card-mass has been reached. Isn’t there a photo researcher over there who could have picked a somewhat more flattering picture of Williams? More »
Last week, we found a vintage clip of Patti Smith playing to an audience of adorably cheery moppets during an appearance on Kids Are People, Too; and now, a tipster has sent along footage of a Cheap Trick performance from the same show. More »
PICK TO CLICK: Stars – Elevator Love Letter [more info] The Bird & The Bee – Fucking Boyfriend / I Hate Camera / La La La [more info] T-Pain feat. More »
The RIAA has launched a Web site for people who want to settle their file-swapping lawsuits, and it’s exactly as cutting-edge as you’d expect. Not only does it have lots of drop-shadow graphics (check out that reflection!) More »
