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Sell-Out: Is Music Licensing The Saving Grace For Artist Income?

posted: October 10, 2012

Let me just bypass the whole “record industry is failing” and “illegal downloading is on the rise” introduction. We all know that professional musicians need to get paid, but this means finding new means of…
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Green Day To Provide Soundtrack For ‘CSI: NY' Episode

posted: October 10, 2012

Green Day has been causing quite the stir lately, between Billie Joe Armstrong‘s on stage explosion and the constant whirlwind of promotion behind the band’s trilogy albums, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tre!. But they aren’t stopping anytime…
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Rancid Celebrates 20 Years With Enormous Box Set

posted: October 10, 2012

If you love Rancid a whole lot, and I do mean a whole lot, then you’re in luck because Pirates Press Records has announced that for Rancid’s 20th anniversary, they will be releasing 46 re-mastered…
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Relient K Finishing New Album

posted: October 10, 2012

Although it may seem like Relient K have been hanging in the background for a while, it turns out it’s been for good reason. The band recently announced that they’re finally putting the finishing touches…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Justin Rice Jumps Between Bishop Allen and The Last Names

posted: October 10, 2012

First you hear the hazy, languid tones of a young woman whose voice falls somewhere in the ethereal zone between Mazzy Star‘s Hope Sandoval and Cat Power. At times, a male vocal partner’s warm pipes…
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Jonny Craig Writes Open Letter To Younger Self

posted: October 9, 2012

Jonny Craig (ex-Dance Gavin Dance) took a little break from touring the UK this week to write an open letter to his younger self, which as it turns out, his older self is a pretty…
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