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April 26, 2011
Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold To MySpace: The Internet Is Not A Laughing Matter
Outdated social media sites are taking a beating this month. In addition to today's news that Friendster will be shutting down, Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold's charge against the slightly older "a/s/l" site MySpace seems to be gaining steam. Pecknold tweeted earlier this month that he w ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2011
News Corp. Can't Give Myspace Away
Myspace, the long-floundering social networking site acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation for $580 million in 2005, has been planning a mid-2011 sale for some time, though interest has been decidedly low. Last year alone, ad spending dropped 37%, while they lost 15% of total users, a ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2011
T-Pain, Proud Owner of a New Facebook Tattoo, Probably Wants You To Forget He Once Wrote a Song About MySpace
Quoth T-Pain: "I think this ones pretty sweet, unless facebook shuts down soon 0_o" T-Pain is so determined to show how much he loves social media that he's just recently inked a Facebook "LIKE" button on his body. But what's especially terrific about this nerd-world news? This isn't the AutoTune O ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2011
Sex Offender Suing MySpace Because He Got Caught
"Why don't you have a seat?"From Adweek comes the troubling story of a convicted Georgia sex offender, Cory Hubbard, who is suing MySpace for providing authorities his information based on an out-of-state warrant. Hubbard's lawsuit in Manhattan federal court alleges that the struggling social ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2011
Myspace is Still Dying, Preps For Layoffs
Back in the day...Myspace, the News Corp.-owned social network of yesterday, will layoff between a third and half of its approximately 1,100 employees, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, again reigniting chatter about the company's epic failure since a 2005 acquisi ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2010
Pandora, MySpace and More Apps That Send User Info to Advertisers
A giant investigation by the Wall Street Journal this weekend shows that many of the applications people load their iPhones and Androids with are transmitting user data -- as much of it as they can collect -- to advertisers. This includes popular apps like TextPlus 4, Pandora and Grindr. Out ... More >>
Blogs
October 9, 2010
Even the New Gap Logo Hates the New MySpace Logo
Amid an internet uproar about how bad the new Gap logo is -- and just after iTunes faced similar scrutiny for the updated iTunes 10 icon -- MySpace is getting in on the Any Press is Good Press action by releasing their own terrible new logo. TechCrunch describes it literally as "the word 'my' ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2010
Announcing the First Annual "Worst Band Name In New York Award"
When this isn't the cover of your single, but something that reasonably comes up in a Google Image Search for your band name, there is a problem. As much as we love local music, New York bands have a long, inglorious history of naming themselves totally stupid shit--romanticize the glory days of CB ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2010
Watch: Free Energy Go Rock 'n' Roll High School With the Video For "Bang Pop"
In case you didn't get the subtext of every Free Energy song ever, here is the quintet taking over a high school, invading the girls' locker room, smoking in the bathroom, etc., to the buoyant tune of "Bang Pop"--one of many, many songs like this on Stuck on Nothing, their debut LP, which somehow ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 11, 2010
Bel Air+Mama Bear+Holy Moly
In case you didn't get the subtext of every Free Energy song ever, here is the quintet taking over a high school, invading the girls' locker room, smoking in the bathroom, etc., to the buoyant tune of "Bang Pop"--one of many, many songs like this on Stuck on Nothing, their debut LP, which somehow ... More >>
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March 24, 2010
Hear "American Slang," Title Track Off The New Gaslight Anthem Record
Sounds like these guys have been listening to a little Ted Leo, huh? Head to their MySpace now for your first taste of American Slang, out in June, and from the sounds of it another fine, yearning slice of Jersey-boy anthemia. (There's a tune called "The Queen of Lower Chelsea," though, so cl ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
Hot Chip And Free Energy Are Doing A Free Show At Highline Ballroom Friday Night
Courtesy of MySpace, but of course. Free Energy are SOTC-approved party-starters ("The most fun I'll see a room have all week," Zach once averred, and that was CMJ week, and Hot Chip's imminent One Night Stand is reliably excellent "Flight of the Conchords but (kind of) serious" electro-pop. ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
Interview: Just Blaze Talks Baseline Studios, From the Making of Jay-Z's The Blueprint to the End of an Era
"For The Blueprint, Jay-Z literally just walked into the studio one day and was like, 'Anybody got some beats?'" Kanye mourns, 1.30.10.Last Thursday, when producer Justin "Just Blaze" Smith announced he was closing shop at Baseline Studios, longtime recording homebase for Roc-A-Fella Records ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
New St. Vincent Video: "Laughing With a Mouth of Blood," Featuring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein
Not news that St. Vincent's Annie Clark has all kinds of special friends--she just came off a week in NYC that involved performing with everyone from David Byrne to Bon Iver's Justin Vernon to the National. So of course she pulled ThunderAnt, who go by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein when not d ... More >>
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February 2, 2010
Rumors Abound That Def Jux Is Not Long For This World
Def Jux, the indie hip-hop empire run by rapper/producer El-P, might be shutting down; how credible you find these whispers depends on how much stock you normally place in a website called shabooty.com. While the label hadn't exactly had a megahit in a while, dense and claustrophobic early-au ... More >>
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December 21, 2009
The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 3: Tila Tequila, "I Love U"
F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. In which the poster girl for MySpace's musical efforts asks the timeless question, "And who the fuck is this bitch on your page, with her big-ass tits up on your top eight?"
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December 2, 2009
Rihanna Plays Hammerstein For Free Tomorrow
She's such a fucking lady! Rob Harvilla's close reading of Rihanna's new record, Rated R, can be found here; "Hard," the song that makes whatever absurd line outside of Hammerstein tomorrow morning maybe worth it, can be heard here. The choice is yours. [MySpace]
Blogs
December 2, 2009
The Vivian Girls Meet the Chantels
"He's Gone," to be specific. This has been a live move for a little while now for them. Will it convert the people who save their well-they-can't-play-their-instruments-so-yeah-they're-not-very-good arguments? No. Even (especially) a cappella, no. Fans that we are, we might argue for the past ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
Clipse Are at Hiro For Free Next Tuesday
Not the first time this year they've gone the secret elaborate MySpace free show route. RSVP here. Maybe Cam will show up this time. Video of Pusha T flashing a promo copy of Till the Casket Drops while simultaneously slipping in the fact that the record's been pushed back to December 8th, ri ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 13, 2009
Pamelia Kurstin
Not the first time this year they've gone the secret elaborate MySpace free show route. RSVP here. Maybe Cam will show up this time. Video of Pusha T flashing a promo copy of Till the Casket Drops while simultaneously slipping in the fact that the record's been pushed back to December 8th, ri ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 15, 2009
THE KYP SHOW
TVOTR force, unleashed alone
Voice Choices
August 25, 2009
DARK HOPE
Local folksters have stories for days
Blogs
August 20, 2009
Stream the Perplexing Entirety of fun.'s Aim & Ignite
It's a little bit hard to know how to take the New York City-based band fun., whose existence dates back only a short year, to when the Format's Nate Ruess, former Anathallo member Andrew Dost, and Steel Train's Jack Antonoff started playing together in the winter of 2008. Their debut, Aim & ... More >>
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July 7, 2009
OMG Almost Time for The Michael Jackson Viewing/Concert!
The live streams are up and running! Here's the Jackson Deathmobile, seen at the Fox News Stream loading in his casket! The Celebrity MySpace stream more somberly features a black screen with the words: "ATTENTION ALL MEDIA OUTLETS: The services are expected to begin in 10 minutes." Whoops, break ... More >>
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June 30, 2009
Another Indie Label Goes the Totally Free Route
Magic Bullet, the erstwhile Virginia hardcore label and early home to bands like Cave In, Frodus, and Boy Sets Fire, recently announced a partnership with the online music start-up GimmeSound to give a large part of their catalogue away, for free:
Blogs
June 19, 2009
Stream Dinosaur Jr.'s Farm
Stream the entirety of Dinosaur Jr.'s rock solid Farm, out this coming Tuesday, at their MySpace. On top of the three songs already out and circulating--the ferocious, double-soloing "I Don't Wanna Go There," album highlight "I Want You to Know," and "I'm Over It"--we heartily recommend "There's No ... More >>
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April 30, 2009
M.I.A. Officially More Influential Than Prince, Lil Wayne, or Kanye West
Congratulations to M.I.A. for making Time's list of the 100 most influential people in 2009, two years after her last record, and three months after being nominated for her first Grammy. Spike Jonze, in his adulatory but perceptive ("She reacts to whatever's in front of her: 'Those are booming India ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 22, 2009
Lady Gaga
Congratulations to M.I.A. for making Time's list of the 100 most influential people in 2009, two years after her last record, and three months after being nominated for her first Grammy. Spike Jonze, in his adulatory but perceptive ("She reacts to whatever's in front of her: 'Those are booming India ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2009
Radio Newsman's Teen Sex Murderer on MySpace, YouTube
The killer of radio newsman George Weber, arrested earlier, has been named as John Katehis of Queens. A reader directs us to what appears to be his MySpace page (warning: loud metal), "Psychoactive Psychedelic," where he describes his mood in his last update as "adventurous" and shows anarchy sign ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2009
Artsy, Non-Celebrity Nude Site Enlivens Wednesday Afternoon
Running celebrity nudes was making us feel a little cheap, but we have learned to just put the words "celebrity nudes" in our posts -- more than once if possible! Celebrity nudes! -- and then run, or link to, any old nudes. Fortunately today we have a project of some genuinely non-prurient interest ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 18, 2009
Talibam!
Running celebrity nudes was making us feel a little cheap, but we have learned to just put the words "celebrity nudes" in our posts -- more than once if possible! Celebrity nudes! -- and then run, or link to, any old nudes. Fortunately today we have a project of some genuinely non-prurient interest ... More >>
Music
February 18, 2009
On the Bad-Sex Revenge Fantasies of Lily Allen
A starlet finds 50 ways to insult your lover
Blogs
February 6, 2009
Lily Allen Playing Free Show at the Bowery Ballroom with Matt and Kim (!?!)
Lily Allen's new record It's Not Me, It's You comes out officially next Tuesday, February 10--it's been streaming on MySpace for days. Remember, the sassy pop tart partly owes her career to Tom Anderson and his WarGames ways, so it's fitting that she'll be headlining a free MySpace "Secret" Show ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2009
Please Stop Spoofing the Shepard Fairey Hope Poster
It was maaaaaaayyyybe cute for a while. But now you just look like a fool. Are you still guffawing about riffs on Tom's MySpace picture too?
Blogs
October 27, 2008
NYT at CMJ: Pure Pop for Old People
It was maaaaaaayyyybe cute for a while. But now you just look like a fool. Are you still guffawing about riffs on Tom's MySpace picture too?
News
October 22, 2008
'Learning 2.0' Brings Schools into the Digital Age
It was maaaaaaayyyybe cute for a while. But now you just look like a fool. Are you still guffawing about riffs on Tom's MySpace picture too?
Music
September 17, 2008
Fun with the Duhks, Donna the Buffalo, and Old Crow Medicine Show
Three folk acts in denial
Music
September 10, 2008
Why MySpace Music Won't Succeed
Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not
Blogs
May 7, 2008
El Perro Del Mar and Lykke Li Tonight and Tomorrow
Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not
Blogs
March 14, 2008
Eliot Spitzer's Hooker, Reviewed!
Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not
Music
March 4, 2008
Spring Music Preview: The Teenagers and the Porn/Pop Split
The Teenagers have dirty mouths and an accent
Blogs
February 27, 2008
TABLOIDED: Clinton and Obama Face Off
The Teenagers have dirty mouths and an accent
Blogs
October 26, 2007
Hillary Clinton is My MySpace Friend
The Teenagers have dirty mouths and an accent
Music
August 14, 2007
Who Played Ya?
On the quite possibly ill-advised online hunt for the star of the Biggie Smalls biopic
Music
July 24, 2007
Hasta La Muerte
Vintage thrash metal is back with a vengeance, and it's speaking Spanish
Blogs
January 30, 2007
Who Dat? We Want to Know.
Vintage thrash metal is back with a vengeance, and it's speaking Spanish
Music
June 27, 2006
World Music for Amateur Sexual Predators
Vintage thrash metal is back with a vengeance, and it's speaking Spanish
Music
May 2, 2006
Cortex-Cutting Cobras
More desperate gutter psych-rock from Texas
Screens
January 17, 2006
Dry Space
What happens when Murdoch buys the Web's networking portal
Screens
August 9, 2005
TheirSpace?
A rumor that a community-built Web behemoth has become a corporate trap
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