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I’m not sure where Hoogie-Boogie Land is or what you’re likely to find there, but apparently these guys can take you there. It’s quite an experience.

YouTube Video: Complete - Hoogie-Boogie Land

Here’s some footage from the upcoming Guitar Hero III featuring the song “Through The Fire and Flames” by Dragonforce. This is insane.

I’m not exactly sure how this works, but it’s awesome. I want my own private Chuck E Cheese robot band (or whatever this place is… Showboz Pizza or something).

via Boing Boing

I hope nobody paid to get into this show:

This is another one of those things that’s either genius or just completely lame and self-indulgent. But I guess if you can pull it off and still get that kind of reaction… why not?

From WIRED:

At today’s Congressional hearing about the new rates for online radio that would essentially destroy it (as readers of this blog already know), SoundExchange, which was scheduled to receive the new royalty payments on Monday morning (since the enforcement date falls on a Sunday), made a startling statement.

The SoundExchange executive [Jon Simson, executive director] promised — in front of Congress — that SoundExchange will not enforce the new royalty rates. Webcasters will stay online, as new rates are hammered out.

I just spoke with Pandora founder Tim Westergren, who expressed relief that Pandora wouldn’t have to shut down on Sunday in response to the new rates. He said, “It was getting pretty close. I always had underlying optimism that sanity was going to prevail, but I was beginning to wonder.”

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I know there are still alot of bands out there hoping that one day they’ll “get signed” and make a record and all their dreams will come true. Unfortunately those days are long gone. If you’re offered a contract with a major label, these 11 things will almost certainly be true no matter who you are or what label it is.

From the Lefsetz Letter:

5. They just care SOMETHING hits.

The label doesn’t give a shit about you hitting, they just care that SOMETHING breaks through. And as soon as it does, your work project goes to the bottom of the pile. If you own your own copyrights, own the label, you’re ALWAYS the priority!

7. Tour support is a thing of the past.

Not completely. But it’s just about gone. And more than ever you need to break on the road. If you’re doing all the work, why shouldn’t you get all the profit?

Read all 11 reasons

Dan Deacon is a Baltimore, Maryland-based absurdist electronic music composer/performer. He attended Purchase College in Purchase, New York where he completed his graduate studies in electro-acoustic and computer music composition. He studied under composer/conductor Joel Thome. Currently, he lives at Wham City in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dan Deacon’s compositional style is best classified in the Future Shock genre along with Video Hippos, Santa Dads, Blood Baby, Ecstatic Sunshine, Ponytail, and other bands in the growing Baltimore music scene.

This Flickr set has some sweet photos from the early days of metal (81-85).

The name “Modest Mouse” got me thinking…

Average Alligator.
Bashful Badger.
Coy Cougar.
Demure Dingo.
Ecomonical Emu.
Fair Ferret.
Good Groundhog.
Humble Hedgehog.
Inexpensive Iguana.
Just Jellyfish.
Kindly Kangaroo.
Lowly Lemur.
Meek Meerkat.
Nonchalant Newt.
Ordinary Octopus.
Prudent Porcupine.
Quiet Quail.
Reserved Raccoon.
Simple Squirrel.
Timid Tiger.
Unassuming Unicorn
Vanilla Vulture
Within-reason Whale.
Xylophone Xylophone.
Yielding Yak.
Zero Zebra.

I totally smell a children’s book.

Who wants to buy the rights to all these characters that I just invented, and now own the rights to, in perpetuity throughout the known universe and throughout such other universes or dimensions that may become known at some later date?

From Defective by Design:

Join us today in calling on Warner Music to drop their opposition to DRM free digital sales and make their catalog available through online music stores free of Digital Restrictions.

View the full article for phone numbers to top Warner execs. Give them a call and let them know you want their music to be available with no DRM.