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Increasingly, Rupert Murdoch's purchase of MySpace looks like a kneejerk move that confused the panic with the strategic. Clearly, he's managed to bring this management style to MySpace, whose purchase of MySpace looks exactly the same. As takeovers go, it has all the thought and care of that ...
Music
"You would think they would have something better to do" observes Dave Bronze, bassist with the band that used to be called Wells Fargo until the bank of the same name got in touch . Yes, apparently, Wells Fargo thought there might be people getting confused by a swing band playing in East ...
Music
Record labels will feel vindicated by Business Insider's chart showing whose videos are the biggest earners on YouTube. Universal, Sony, Hollywood Records, EMI... Yes, surely, this is proof that without music, YouTube would be making nothing. On the other hand: even aggregated, the top ten ...
Music
The Insider
Universal music are currently doing a spot of market research, aimed primarily at seeing what Spotify is doing to the music market. It's being run by an outfit called Angus Reid Strategies through a service called Springboard UK, and the idea behind it makes sense. Disruptive technologies being ...
Music
Dean Piper, writing in today's Sunday Mirror , seems to grasp that Amy Winehouse's newfound embrace of the scalpel is an extension of her previous love of the pipe: Once an addict, always an addict. And now it seems Amy Winehouse is battling a new addiction – plastic surgery. So, does Piper ...
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Amy Winehouse
There's a snarky piece in the News of the World this week. The paper has caught up with Marilyn, seemingly just to point and laugh: HE urged us to Feed The World - but 25 years after Band Aid, Eighties star Marilyn seems only to have fed his FACE. For the slim, 10st gender bender who recorded Do ...
Music
Where you from? The ten most popular nations visiting No Rock this year: 1. United Kingdom 2. United States 3. Canada 4. Germany 5. Australia 6. Ireland 7. France 8. South Korea 9. Brazil 10. Netherlands And a special hello to Timor-Leste, Republic of Congo, San Marino, Palau, Guinea, Somalia, ...
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Red
Daniel Sullivan, the guy who pushed Noel Gallagher over on stage in Toronto, has pleaded guilty to assault. His defence told the court he couldn't remember anything about the incident, except clambering over the fence. Sullivan was drunk at the time, which might explain why he never quite made ...
Music
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Taking advantage of the lack of any real competition, HMV is experimenting with ten temporary stores around the UK this Christmas. Who can explain what's going on in HMV's minds better than temproary store czar Gennaro Castaldo ? Pin him down, Sky News. HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo has ...
Music
The Guardian calls the takeover of the Big Chill by Reading-Leeds promoter Festival Republic "quiet" - which is true; it happened in September after the owners went bust. Still, I don't see what everyone's worried about - it's not like Glastonbury got noticeably more corporate and lost touch ...
Music
We all know where Lily Allen stands on filesharing, don't we? Slightly to the right of Lord Mandelson. So if she believes that throwing households off the internet on suspicion of sharing music for free is appropriate, what terrible fate would she have in store for someone who took her music, ...
Music
Lily Allen
Gordon's big splash this morning announces the host of next year's Brits : Peter Kay. Talk about catching 'em while they're hot. Presumably Ronnie Corbett already has a booking for that night?
Music
Spotify are hoping to use the music you listen to in order to target adverts . It could sort-of work: If you like Robin Beck, you might want to buy Diet Coke. But it's not really this simple, is it? The Spotify founder and CEO, Daniel Ek, explained the thinking behind personalised advertising. ...
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Beck
Hypebot reports the launch of a new music store , selling downloads in America for 19 cents a pop. The store, TunesPro, says it can do this price because it's absorbing a loss of 39 cents a download. It says it's happy to do that because it's cheaper than advertising. It also tells Hypebot that ...
Music
The Apprentice
You can see the logic behind having Sony stores on the High Street - if you value the quality of their electronics, you might go to shop the brand. Less clear is the value of a Sony store online selling digital music, movies and ebooks . I've said before that only the major labels believe that ...
Music
As if being dead wasn't bad enough, imagine if you found your underlife consisted of looking at Sting's pyjamas : "I would never have said I believe in ghosts, until I saw one - and I've seen a ghost with my own eyes. I woke up at three in the morning, bolt upright, looked into the corner of ...
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Sting
I suppose, given that he's having a bit of a shit time on his current tour, it's understanable that when he does turn up, Morrissey is grumpy old sod. In Hamburg, somebody decided to boo when Mozzer launched into his vegetarian speech. Did Morrissey laugh it off? What do you think?
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Morrissey
It's a nasty bus crash - and, unfortunately, it involves loss of life, but it isn't really a Miley Cyrus bus crash , what with her not actually being nowhere near the buses at the time. The bus, carrying members of production crew working on her tour, left the road in Virginia and overturned. ...
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Miley Cyrus
Instead of the promised second collection of Relapse, Eminem is going to just toss out a special edition of the first Relapse for the Christmas market. Relapse: The Landfill (sorry, Refill) is the first album with a few extra tracks which, apparently, aren't good or interesting enough to stand ...
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Eminem
Some really disturbing news from Boing Boing about what it claims Milord Mandelson is cooking up to drop into the Digital Economy Bill: These changes will give the Secretary of State (Mandelson -- or his successor in the next government) the power to make "secondary legislation" (legislation ...
