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A Muse For Muse: New Album Inspired By Skrillex

posted: July 26, 2012

If you’ve seen the teaser trailer for the upcoming Muse album, you may have noticed that the band is going in a bit of a different direction than usual: dubstep. Seeing as this has caused…
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What's In A ".music" Domain?

posted: July 26, 2012

Every denizen of the Internet is well aware of ubiquitous domains like .com, .org, and .net. These are unrestricted generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, acting as a general organization system, by content, for every site on the…
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Hot Chip To Provide Olympic Table Tennis Soundtrack

posted: July 26, 2012

In a move that sounds cooler the more we think about it, English electronic group Hot Chip have been chosen to chosen to provide the introductory music for the Olympic table tennis competition. With their…
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Amazon, iTunes, and Target: Exclusive Album Releases And What They Mean For Music Sales

posted: July 25, 2012

Frank Ocean has been all over the news lately for reasons you’re certainly already aware of and are tired of hearing about. But there’s one more wrinkle to the story of Ocean and his debut…
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Flea Of Red Hot Chili Peppers Releases First Solo Album For Charity

posted: July 25, 2012

Michael “Flea” Balzary, the usually/mostly naked, hair-dyed, wildboy bassist for Red Hot Chili Peppers, has released his first ever solo album, entitled Helen Burns. However, in contrast with his rambunctious stage presence and famously upbeat alternative funk…
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Riffs, Rants and Rumors: The Zombies and The Left Banke, Live in Baroque Pop Heaven

posted: July 25, 2012

Like so many other things, it all began with The Beatles. The style that came to be known variously as baroque pop, orchestral pop, chamber pop, etc. can basically be traced back to 1966, when…
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