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Stream Weezer’s New Album, Hurley

Stream Weezer’s New Album, Hurley

Weezer’s new album, Hurley is out in a week but in an effort to stop the tide of leaks and illegal downloads Weezer is offering a full preview of the album on MySpace. Hurley is named after Jorge Garcia’s character on Lost, whose face decorates the cover of Hurley. The album includes 10 tracks, including [...]

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Add Creative Commons To Your Remix

Add Creative Commons To Your Remix

One by-product of the digital music age is the ease of remixing; the problem is doing this without violating someone’s copyrights. In steps Soundcloud, making the finding of samples and remix-able music or advertising the availability of tracks you want to release for that purpose much easier. You can now search for CC content, and [...]

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In Studio With Dave Way

In Studio With Dave Way

Watch more Interviews in the Music180 Video Vault Dave sat down with Music180 to talk about why he likes developing unsigned artists, and how he uses Music180 to find new talent. “I get more excited about these new unknown artists often then I do about the people with the big machine behind them.” says Dave. [...]

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Candygram For Mongo Wins Gig At Key Club

Candygram For Mongo Wins Gig At Key Club

Music180 recently featured an opportunity for an unsigned band to take the stage at Hollywood’s legendary Key Club with all-star rockers from Guns N’ Roses, Slash & Friends, and more – CARNIVAL OF DOGS. Congratulations to Candygram for Mongo for winning the gig and an artist development session with Music180!

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Add Creative Commons To Your Remix

Add Creative Commons To Your Remix
  • Artist Development, Producing, Recording, Songwriting

One by-product of the digital music age is the ease of remixing; the problem is doing this without violating someone’s copyrights. In steps Soundcloud, making the finding of samples and remix-able music or advertising the availability of tracks you want to release for that purpose much easier. You can now search for CC content, and [...]

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How To Use Ping, Part Two

How To Use Ping, Part Two
  • Artist Development, Marketing

Your an indie band with a new Ping profile and are trying to figure out how to turn the current 3 million Ping users all into your fans. The answer is simple, don’t talk just about yourself and listen to only your own music. Ping is a network designed for discovery and influence, the goal [...]

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Stream Weezer’s New Album, Hurley

Stream Weezer’s New Album, Hurley
  • Digital Distribution, News, Publishing

Weezer’s new album, Hurley is out in a week but in an effort to stop the tide of leaks and illegal downloads Weezer is offering a full preview of the album on MySpace. Hurley is named after Jorge Garcia’s character on Lost, whose face decorates the cover of Hurley. The album includes 10 tracks, including [...]

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Kanye West Apoligizes, Releases New Music And Writes A Novel On Twitter

Kanye West Apoligizes, Releases New Music And Writes A Novel On Twitter
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There is a saying in the music biz that you cannot engage with your fans enough, Kanye West has taken it to heart. After releasing his new track for the week on Twitter, “Devil in a New Dress,” Kanye spent the next few hours apologizing to Taylor Swift, shutting down his clothing company and his [...]

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Ping Marketing For Indie Bands Part One

Ping Marketing For Indie Bands Part One
  • Artist Development, Digital Distribution, Marketing

The social music landscape was shaken up this week by Apple’s release of Ping. On the surface it has to potential to be the most robust tool for music discovery. iTunes is synonymous with digital music and Ping leverages the brand into a social community, allowing you to check out what music your friends are [...]

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Listen To Interpol’s New Album

Listen To Interpol’s New Album
  • News, Recording, Songwriting

Interpol is streaming their new album Interpol on their Facebook. The album is slated for a September 7, 2010 on indie label Matador Records. It is there first album in three years and a return to Interpol of 2002 wit big riffs and moody melodies. Listen to Interpol on their MySpace page. Music 180 Pro [...]

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Radiohead Help Turn Fan Videos Into A Movie

Radiohead Help Turn Fan Videos Into A Movie
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Radiohead were impressed by the efforts of some of their fans efforts to turn fan videos of a concert in Prague in a film Radiohead are providing high quality recordings to go along wit it. Samples of the film can be seen at YouTube, the DVD collects the viewpoints of more than 50 camera-people – [...]

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Music Licensing Lessons Learned From Apple

Music Licensing Lessons Learned From Apple
  • Artist Development, Music Law

Apple’s plan to increase the length of a song sample from 30 seconds to 60 seconds has hit a snag; they forgot to ask for permission. Research shows that 60 second samples dramatically increase song sales and the major labels are on board with Apple, they are more than happily to do anything to increase [...]

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Preview Brandon Flower’s New Album Flamingo

Preview Brandon Flower’s New Album Flamingo
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Brandon Flowers of  The Killers is breaking out his debut solo album, Flamingo due out September 14th. He’s heading to the UK for a short tour that goes on sale Wednesday, September 1st. Meanwhile, listen to these exclusive 45-second preview clips found on Spin.com.

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Guns N’ Roses Show Up Late, Boo’d By Fans And Get Unplugged

Guns N’ Roses Show Up Late, Boo’d By Fans And Get Unplugged
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Guns N’ Roses have a reputation for late arrivals, long-running sets and prima donna performances. They lived up to this reputation at the Reading and Leeds festivals (Aug. 27-29 this weekend and earned boos and jeers from the fans.  According to NME, frontman Axl Rose declared “war” on Leeds organizers after claiming that the band’s [...]

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