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Brooklyn Vegan's commenters respond to AP's version of the "hey, gas prices may be getting too expensive for small bands to tour" story the only way they know how: "hey. whatever it takes to get some of these bands who can't play their instruments to begin with off the road...i'm all for it." [Brooklyn Vegan / AP / Photo: Khuong Hoang]

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and sometimes you ask y

RCRD LBL's Vowel-Less Ways Continue To Vex Us

Fortune reports on "OMG blogs can be record labels" poster child RCRD LBL hooking up with The Fader's site, indie-leaning tipsheet The Tripwire, and the members-only DJ site 1200 Squad to form an ad network: "Thefader.com, for instance, has 93,000 unique monthly users. RCRD LBL has 125,000. Thetripwire.com, an 'indie' rock destination, has 15,000. The hip-hop oriented 1200squad.com has only registered users.... By rolling the sites into a network, Cohen and Stone can now approach advertisers with an audience of nearly 240,000." Is it just me, or does simply adding up those unique users and reaching a nice, big, round number equal some faulty math? Especially since the two largest sites in the equation frequently give each other the linkaround, and presumably have some unique-visitor overlap? More »

5:30 PM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Maura Johnston
359 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: If I've got some advertising money to spend, I'm gonna hit a website that's got over 3 million unique monthly visitors, not the same Fred Perry-wearing douchebags that go to rcrdlbl.stpdst.nm.vr.com for the free downtempo-house remixes of Shantnogold. more »

A 58% year-to-year increase in monthly unique visitors has resulted in imeem becoming the No. 1 destination for streaming music on the Web, according to statistics collected by compete.com in March 2008; the former No. 1, Yahoo! Music, slipped to No. 2 on a 14% year-to-year dip (9.6 million). Coming in at No. 7 on the Compete countdown with 2.3 million uniques: HM1500, a shorthand term for the aggregate unique-visitor traffic of more than 1,500 music blogs tracked by the Hype Machine. (The Machine itself is at No. 16.) One glaring omission from Compete's list: YouTube, which I use for streaming much, much more than any of the sites in the top 20. (I know, I know, pulling music-only data out is a pain in the butt, but they're an analytics company! They can analyze!) [Compete.com]

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touch of presumptiousness

Grateful Dead To NPR: You Scratch Our Back, We'll Lightly Pat Yours

Former Sleater-Kinney guitarist/vocalist Carrie Brownstein blogs at NPR, and her latest post has a fully cleared MP3 mix that has tracks by the likes of Pylon and Wire, and is appended with a note: "This mix was supposed to have the Grateful Dead on it, whose music I really love, but they refused unless we promised to do a piece on them on All Things Considered. In addition, we would need to run a feature on The Dead on the site. Here's a sentence I've never written: Someone needs to take a bong hit and chill out. Just a simple 'no thanks' would have sufficed. Are The Dead really in need of publicity? Because I swear there's a dancing bear sticker on every third car I see in Portland." Hey, they're just trying to take blog payola to the next level! Never underestimate those dancing bears' marketing savvy. [Monitor Mix; HT BV]

4:30 PM on Tue May 13 2008
By Maura Johnston
497 views, 16 comments

Latest by NeverEnough: @GhostOfDuane: Don't forget the important 'fag hag' demographic. :) more »

Yet another pop-centric blog bites the dust (and from the commenters' murmurings, it looks like the culprit is whoever handles Oasis' business affairs): "PRETTY MUCH AMAZING, HAS ONCE AGAIN BEEN TRUMPED. I DONT KNOW IF I WILL BRING IT BACK THIS TIME. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING, HASN'T IT. BUT THIS MAY BE IT FOR PMA. WHO KNOWS. WILL UPDATE AGAIN NEXT WEEK TO KEEP EVERYONE IN CHECK." Kind of surprised that the leaked Kelly Clarkson demos didn't do him in, but I guess the music business is still in "slightly slower than your average tortoise" mode when it comes to its endless game of whack-a-mole. [Pretty Much Amazing]

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yay, journalism!

Five Ways To Not Write A Trend Piece On Music Blogs

Ah, trend stories, the bane of every journalistic enterprise. On the one hand, they are handy for editors who want to know what "the kids" who will be taking their jobs and houses are up to. On the other hand, they're generally vacuous glosses on subjects that are way too surface-gleaning to even be called "superficial." Greg Sandoval at CNet took the world of "music blogging" under his trend-story wing this morning, and if nothing else it's a primer in how not to tackle this admittedly knotty, yet way too often completely misunderstood subject. Five anti-lessons after the jump. More »

9:30 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Maura Johnston
936 views, 6 comments

Latest by blackmailismylife: I'm calling for a LOLapatine meme starting now. more »

Operation Shutdown

It would seem that the leak of Madonna's Hard Candy has succeeded in taking out most of the pop music leak blogs that linked to its Rapidshare-enabled downloads earlier today, i.e., most of the pop music leak blogs that weren't demolished by the great Mariah Carey blog purge of early 2008. For now, anyway—who knows where else this game of whack-a-mole can lead us? [Where Is Chris Pix?!?]

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not-all-that-subtle differences

Pitchfork.tv Vs. Videogum: It's On! (Not Really.)

Now that Pitchfork's video-heavy Pitchfork.tv and Stereogum's "Television With Even Less Pity Than Television Without Pity" spinoff Videogum have safely launched, we can all see the folly of all the pre-launch "OMG direct competitors?!?" chatter that threatened to sag the meta-music-blogosphere past its already-pretty-low point. Yes, "video-related sites that are brand extensions of popular music sites and launching in early April" could be a (somewhat wordily named) trendlet, but surely anyone trying to lump the two together as direct competitors is either really overly invested in pitching a trend story on this topic or not so into concepts like "nuance" or "completely different business models and also kind of different audiences." [Hypebot]

10:30 AM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Maura Johnston
415 views, 9 comments

Latest by AL: @Audif Jackson Winters III: There's about 8 million music blogs out there, so why not 8 million TV blogs too? more »

feuds

Khia Unimpressed By Trina's Latest Demands For Cunnilingus

"U STILL THE HOE U ALWAYS BEEN. AND HOES DONT GET NO RESPECT!!!!!! PUPPETTTTTT!!!!" Harsh! Looks like the vicious feud between sexually demanding rappers Khia and Trina didn't end in 2006. Khia, author of "My Neck, My Back" and ringer on VH1's upcoming Miss Rap Supreme, went to Target Tuesday and bought Trina's new CD, Still Da Baddest, just so she could give it a track by track review (hopefully the only one that will mock Trina's '06 miscarriage and contain the phrase "I OUGHT TO TAKE OFF MY BIG RED CLOWN SHOE AND KICK U IN UR BIG BOBBLE HEAD!!!!!!!!"). More »

10:40 AM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,514 views, 7 comments

Latest by DavidWatts: I heard that even Trina's pussy smells like Chanel, so I don't know what Khia's talking about. TEAM BADDEST BITCH! more »

counterpoint

A Love That Shall Never Wayne

Lil Wayne will release The Carter III on May 13. Maybe. After all, the guy has spent the last two and a half years doing everything but making actual studio albums: seven or eight mixtapes, dozens of guest appearances, several arrests, and more hype than the"Loungin'" video^*. Some of this attention has been warranted. The Carter II, his previous studio effort, is a good but not great record, with "Tha Mobb" ranking as one of the decade's finest rap songs and "Shooter" impressively meshing hardcore raps with a crossover sensibility (though Alan Thicke will forever out-class his son). Moreover, Wayne's ascendence benefited heavily from 2005's ignominious distinction as one of the worst years in rap history, with critics so strapped for music to ride for that they actually tried to convince themselves that Paul Wall and Mike Jones were good. More »

10:00 AM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Jeff Weiss
3,635 views, 17 comments

Latest by encyclopediablack: @afriedman: Ah, J-Treds was awesome. Whatever happened to him? Also if people want to talk about wordplay, Breezly Brewin (Juggaknots/Weathermen/Indelible MCs) has to be mentioned. more »

web 2.no

Music Blogging's "Hack" Quotient To Increase Exponentially

Do you want to enter the lucrative world of music blogging? Do you lack the ability to put together sentences, dig through piles of publicist e-mails, surf the hype/backlash wave, and actually take the time to hit "publish" once you've slogged through the previous steps? Well, fret no more! Someone has put together a guide to putting together your own MP3 blog that will take up no more than 10 minutes of your time thanks to some "clever" use of the music-tracking site last.fm, the apparently-still-around Yahoo! Pipes, the microblog application Tumblr, and, of course, deeplinking content that other people have already posted. You'll never have to look at the gaping yawn of a "Compose New Entry" page again! More »

3:45 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Maura Johnston
634 views, 8 comments

Latest by n/a: @Lucas Jensen: And a guy named Lucas playing the drums. more »

As it turns out, the spate of leak-blog deletions that I reported yesterday isn't the result of Mariah Carey's people coming down hard—it's the fallout from a leak-blog war where, as Crazy World Of Music's Vicki describes it, "The blog gets hacked and I had to change my password for 4 hours yesterday... [Some dude named Kevin is] coming back on March 10 but his blog sucks and won't be #1 since he's the one who's behind hacking this blog and shutting other blog down so he can be #1 in the blog world. Well, get a clue you won't be #1 BUT you ruin a lot of good sites on the way cause you are jealous of them. No, he's NOT Kevi-ipods, its a 12 year old Kevin who's immature.... mine got hacked but the other ones got reported by Kevin and his "friends" for no reason. Yea its stupid but his blog won't be #1 at all." And now Vicki is coming back on March 17! Whew. This all sounds like the plot to a movie that would culminate in a dance war—of course, that dance war would have to be in Second Life, but at least it would have a bleeding-edge-of-pop soundtrack to make up for that awkwardness. [Crazy World Of Music]

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holy yummo

Dear Bloggers: Does Picking On Rachael Ray Make You Feel Proud?

I've discovered I like (at least) two things about Rachael Ray. One: the knife set my mother-in-law purchased for me this Christmas (sharptastic!). Two: That she can drop the classic "I'm way too busy for this jibber-jabber" retort on the blogger types who aren't thrilled with her SXSW day party appearance on March 15. Hey, Brooklyn Vegan! Rachael Ray just gave you the gas face. More »

10:30 AM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Dan Gibson
1,667 views, 23 comments

Mariah Carey's reign of leak-blog carnage continues: Shortly after the singles-centric site Crazy World of Music put up a glum post about Mariah's personal squad of Web Sheriffs shutting down the blog Musical Groove, which repeatedly "made available" "Touch My Body" despite repeated clampdowns from Mariah's label Island Def Jam, that site got shut down. Whether or not Mariah and her "people" were the culprits is unknown at this time, but it's clearly time to reorganize your bookmarks. [Crazy World Of Music]

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get off the internet

Music Bloggers' Inability To Not Hit "Reply To All" Remains Unparalleled

Poor Shannon at Big Machine Media. All she wanted to do was ask 340 or so music bloggers about their listening habits and preferred formats for promos, but she committed the biggest sin that one can commit when sending out an e-mail to a bunch of people: She put each and every address in the Cc: field, thus exposing these music blogs to each other in ways that left their spirits broken. So what did some of them do? Why, they indignantly hit "reply to all" and chewed her out using words like "unprofessional" and "amateur"! Surprisingly, no one hit reply to all to send a "hey dudes check out my site" e-mail, but a few of the e-mails within the thread did expose some common traits of music bloggers, which I've broken down after the jump. More »

12:15 PM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,642 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: I'd especially like to point out how much it would suck if shannon was just a college kid with an unpaid internship stuck sending emails all day to uptight and self-riteous pseudo-taste makers. but thats just crazy talk. more »

grave dancers union

We Read The Comments On Trent Reznor's "Ha Ha, TVT Is Toast" Post So You Don't Have To

Especially because there are, at present, 596 responses to the cryptic post above, which Reznor posted last night, shortly after the news of his former label's imminent doom broke. And who wants to slog through a bunch of Internet fanboys/fangirls' incoherent ravings when there's someone around who's not only willing to do so, but willing to neatly categorize them for you?

2:45 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,854 views, 10 comments

shutdowns

Mariah Carey's Game Of Whack-A-Mole Continues

Following yesterday's closure of the pop-centric MP3 blog Kevipod Music, which happened because the site posted a link to a snippet of Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body," other sites hosted by Google's free-blogging service Blogspot, like ALi's Blog, have been subject to DMCA smackdowns as well, although with a little Googling you can see that sites that are independently hosted or on Wordpress.com have so far escaped Carey's label's wrath. More »

3:30 PM on Wed Feb 13 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,018 views, 9 comments

another one bites the dust (and rises up again)

Mariah Carey Comes Down Hard On Music Blogger

While trawling my RSS feeds, I found a post from the interminably cheery MP3 blog Kevipod Music that was decidedly different in tone than the site's other posts. A snippet: "Sorry for the inconvenience, this was not hacked by any way or was it stolen from kevipod. I know most of you are concerned. Kevipod will be tried to be restored." Going to the blog revealed that the site had been stripped of its pop-starlet-filled banners, and the "sorry" post was the only one on the site—because the original Kevipod Music had been taken down by Blogger after one too many DMCA complaints^*. Which is probably not all that surprising, given the site's penchant for linking to leaked copies of singles on ZShare and other third-party upload sites, but it still bummed out the 18-year-old Madrid resident, who took to another blog to plead his case: More »

3:00 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,654 views, 6 comments

Latest by n/a: Awful. Mariah Carey is completely fucking awful. I just can't fathom this woman's appeal. more »

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