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What the genre?
What exactly makes an artist a certain genre? Here’s a handy guide to help you figure it out.
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What exactly makes an artist a certain genre? Here’s a handy guide to help you figure it out.
From the early pioneers of female badassery to those carrying that torch in 2014, find out who we chose for our list of the leading ladies of alternative — and why.
Bayside have signed to Hopeless Records and will release their sixth full-length via the label sometime in 2014. Click “read more” to see statements from the label and frontman Anthony Raneri.
The Gaslight Anthem, Vampire Weekend, Passion Pit, and Kendrick Lamar will be headlining the Boston Calling festival taking place September 7th and 8th. View the full lineup by clicking “Read More.”
Old Friends Records has signed Hellogoodbye. The band is currently in the studio with multi-Grammy Award winning producer Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, The Strokes), recording a new full-length studio album slated for an April 2013 release.
Fans in Florida got their chance to catch Young The Giant and Grouplove on St. Patrick’s Day at The Ritz in Ybor City.
Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage.
President Barack Obama’s promises of change are falling short for one core Democratic constituency: gays and lesbians, whose leaders say Obama’s administration is not keeping up with the times. Gay rights campaigners, most of them Democrats who supported Obama in November, have begun to voice their public frustration with Obama’s inaction, small jokes at their community’s expense and deafening silence on what they see as the signal civil rights issue of this era. His campaign promises to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and the military ban on openly gay and lesbian servicemembers have not been fulfilled. And the news,… Read more »
MySpace pulled all Project Playlist widgets from its site yesterday. The move apparently came after MySpace received notices from several “major music companies” demanding that the popular playlist sharing widget be removed.”MySpace has received notices of infringement about Project Playlist at different times from several of the major music companies currently suing Project Playlist,” MySpace said in statement. That’s PR-speak for some or all of the major labels, as well as, a big publisher or two. (There’s more of the statement after the jump below.) Owen Van Natta, Facebook‘s former chief revenue officer, recently became CEO of ProjectPlaylist… Read more »
When Hartmut Ostrowski was an up-and-comer in Bertelsmann’s printing and services division in the 1990s, his bosses were discouraged from speaking at meetings of the top executives. In the glamorous world of Bertelsmann, a global media empire with music, television, and publishing properties – Germany’s answer to Time Warner – services were viewed as strictly a backstage function. Now, with Mr. Ostrowski at the helm of Bertelsmann, the stagehands are striding into the spotlight. Two weeks ago, he named Markus Dohle, a 39-year-old German who runs the company’s printing operations, as chief executive of Random House, the world’s largest consumer… Read more »
