LIl Wayne has got to have sipped too much syrup. Wayne’s second half of his career was made by mixtapes, was made by DJ Drama’s mixtapes and now Cash Money is suing DJ Drama and Aphilliates, Makin Moves and more. I mean I guess I’m not too surprised since Wayne threw Drama under the bus when Drama got raided.

h/t to DSJoe

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• Above is a great TED talk from MIT Media Lab graduate student David Merrill and his Siftables.  These are the future blocks that kids play with.  They can also be used to even make music.
• Grey Tuesday happened 5 years ago to the day.  Where do you think we are compared to Grey Tuesday?  Girl Talk testified in front of congress.  The RIAA lawsuits have done little to stop downloading and have been halted.  Lil Wayne had one of the biggest albums of the last year after a torrential downpour of leaks up until and including his album.  The DMCA is still with us.  Jay Z and Madonna signed huge deals with ticket promoters and not record companies.  iTunes has sold over a billion songs and meanwhile the record companies still seem to be floundering and aren’t sue what to do.

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Philly based Flamin Hotz has started a brand new exciting record club to cater to its fans across the world. Join the record club now, fork over the cash and get records and other fun stuff delivered to your door automatically. Two plans exist, pay all up front or since Flamin Hotz is for the people there is even a monthly payment plan. All club members will automatically get high quality audio files 2 weeks before the records ship as well. The first 200 to sign up for the upfront plan receive their own laser etched woodgrain VIP card like the one above. The first 200 people to sign up for either plan receive 1 free record from what they have in stock. Some other highlights include

Demos, outakes, and remix packages of all files…Other stuff I want to do will probably include t-shirts, more stickers, and if there is enough money maybe some 7″s and maybe trading cards?

Limited edition promo swagger, limited edition records, the mp3s are all included and some sick record design. Sign up now.  I already did.

Flamin Hotz Record Club

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Tag Records first signee Q Da Kid releases his first video On a Mission.

Kid isn’t bad. The music is free you just have to buy a special “Music Pack”. Buy 2 body sprays and a deodorant and get 2 tracks from Q. Is it too easy to say that the music industry stinks?

Honestly, though, what do you guys think? I’ve never used tag and don’t plan on buying any to download 2 tracks for free. Is this just innovative marketing? Sell out commercialism? Inevitable?

Tag Records appears to be all hip hop. Green Label from Mountain Dew is so extreme underground. What kind of music do you think a label run by Colgate toothpaste would have? How about Mop n Glo? Campbell’s soup? Charmin? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

Tag Records

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New video for the Cool Kids, getting that Mountain Dew money. Free download available there too.

So who is going to have the better record company? Tag Body Spray or Mountain Dew soda?

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A roundup of recent music issues. Today is a special day.

• Whoohoo! Its the fifth anniversary of the RIAA sending out lawsuits to their customers. Hooray for utter failure and extortion! Link
• During the Republican National Convention the song “Barracuda” was used after Governor Palin’s speech. Heart sent a cease-and-desist notice to the campaign rejecting their unauthorized use of the song. Link
• Been to Muxtape lately? “Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA.” Surprised it took that long.
• WhoTheHell, fights the RIAA and wins.
• “A federal judge on Wednesday said copyright owners must consider “fair use” of their works before sending takedown notices to online video-sharing sites.” Imagine that, copyright owners have to follow the law. Link

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Back again with our semi regular look at various stories around the globe primarily looking at your rights in the digital age. Some of these are old but they’re easy to skip over if you’ve already seen them.

• In Venezuela, schools have been created to teach inner city and poor children from rural areas classical music. The program has been so successful, 300,000 children have passed through, a graduate of the program was chosen as the next director of the LA Philharmonic and a number of countries around the world are piloting the program. The program has expanded to 181 schools in the past 20+ years. Link
• Learn how to upload mp3s to flickr by hiding them in images. Or you know just upload them to your own website. Link
• Disco is surely not dead, and if you’re not up to snuff, check out this Disco Handbook on Scribd. Highly recommended are the pages containing definitions including heavy, deejay, beat, funky, freak and more.  Surprisingly holds up well despite its age.  Well worth a skim at least.
• David Byrne plays a building!!! I’m speechless. Link
• The inexact science behind DMCA takedown notices. Did you know printers have received DMCA notices? Link
• LastGraph automatically generates graphs based on your Last.fm listening habits. I just ran it at 2AM and I’m in position 73, looks a bit popular. Looks like my graphs will be here, although I haven’t used Last.fm in awhile
• You don’t say, a double standard from the music companies? Universal complains about fines that are just to high for a little bit of copyright infringement. Link
• Somewhat interesting essay from Rasmus Fleischer, cofounder of the Piracy Bureau and the Pirate Bay. His is the lead essay at the Cato Institute’s online magazine Unbound. Argued well, if a bit long. Link
• Avril Lavigne fans have created a site to automatically add extra views to make her video the number one video with over 89 million views. No comment, it’s Avril Lavigne, I can’t believe I actually just typed those words in here. Link
• Finally, I saved the best for last.  MediaDefender said oops after performing a DDOS on Revision3 swamping their network connections.  Read the full details over at Revision3’s blog.  This is amazing, a typically hacker/extortionist tool used “accidentally” against a legitimate media site.  Congratulations on yet another stupid move.

Ok, so that was alot mate.  Next time I’ll try to do this a little more regularly to keep up to date with all of this.   Btw, did you find the bonus mp3?

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In a Bud Light ad:

In New York Magazine:

Where will Santogold’s whims take her next? “As a kid, I never stuck to anything,” she says. “I took gymnastics, tap dance, ice-skating, karate, violin … I think I tried to open a beauty salon in my house when I was like 7. But I found something in my journal that I wrote when I was 15 or 16. I was like”—she adopts a self-mocking tone, but a certain embarrassed pride seeps through—“I know there’s music in me, I just haven’t found it yet. Maybe the kind that it is doesn’t even exist yet.”

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I feel so honored. I’m really surprised that they are going after mixtape and remix tracks. Also, the Busta Rhymes joint I got directly from Mick Boogie and the B.o.B. song from a promo company. Left hand not knowing what the right is doing.

Hello,

We have received a formal DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice regarding allegedly infringing content hosted on your site. The specific content in question is as follows:

50 Cent - Smile I’m Leaving

50 Cent - I get Money (Forbes 123 remix feat Jay Z and Diddy)

B.o.B. - Grip Your Body feat Amy Winehouse

Busta Rhymes and Mick Boogie - Step Up

David Guetta - Love is Gone (Benja Styles remix)

Chemical Brothers - Do it Again (Ian St. Laurent remix)

Justin Timberlake - My Love (Mark B Fresh remix)

Keyshia Cole feat E Ness Amina - Shoulda Let You Go (benja styles remix)

The party making the complaint (Jeremy Banks — International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) — Notices@ifpi.org), claims under penalty of perjury to be or represent the copyright owner of this content. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c), we have removed access to the content in question.

http://www.loc.gov/copyright/title17/92chap5.html#512

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Brand new project combining Last.FM + YouTube automatically creating your own MTV channel. Up above you can see Crime Mob with “Rock Yo Hips”. Now I’m listening to DMX. In between has been System of a Down and Ikaw(??). Really interesting, although the creator states that it’s only “an experiment, and it will probably stay that way.” I kind of wish there were other sizes besides too small and fullscreen, so I’m going to contact him now. Its the dopeness either way though.

5151 Last.FM + Youtube Channel

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