Hilarious RIAA News Spoof at The Onion

The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that it will be taking legal action against anyone discovered telling friends, acquaintances, or associates about new songs, artists, or albums. "We are merely exercising our right to defend our intellectual properties from unauthorized peer-to-peer notification of the existence of copyrighted material."

RIAA gets tough, DRM losses, Pick the cable channels you want?, more

• The RIAA goes after mashups by digging up Internet radio guidelines at live365. Now, there's word that American Edit, the Green Day mash-up project by Dean Gray has been forced to be taken down. In protest, mashuptown will post links to download the album before a net purge of the work is presumably attempted.
  
  
• Silver lining, score one for the little guy: Music labels losing sales over DRM
  
  
• Imagine picking and paying for only the cable channels you want!
  
  
• Sad news: Berenstain Bears co-creator dead
  
  
• Follow-up: Deadheads fight back
  
  
• Jack White and Karen Elson expecting?

Morcheeba - Everybody Loves a Loser (video)

The Game - Say Goodbye feat. Paul Wall

Vinyl simulation, Legal online music catching on?, 1 terabyte iPod in 5 years?

• Want that 12" sound at the computer? Try iZotope Vinyl.
  Touted by the developers as "Authentic Lo-Fi Vinyl Simulation for Pro Tools, VST, MAS, Audio Unit, and DirectX audio applications". Free download here! [via ]
  
  
• Illegal file-sharing still outnumbers legal downloading
  (95% to 5% to be exact). Which countries have the most legal downloaders? Hint: not the DRM-ed up the ass U.S.
  
  
• One terabyte iPod within the next five years?
  Talk about the ultimate portable media storage device.
  
  
• Archive.org forced to severely limit access to live Grateful Dead shows

Bruce Lee Statue of Peace

Freqtric Drums

Busta Cuts His Dreads

Magnetophone - Lost In Edit

The Game - 120 Bars (stop snitchin')

The Attorneys

Three Boys from Brooklyn charge into the musical fray with melancholy, multilayered vocals and a canny combination of staccato riffs and expansive atmosphere.

Songbird Media Player, Madonna matches Elvis, Barney vs. 2pac video, Kazaa to filter itself

• Screenshots of the open source Songbird Media Player. Wonder if iTunes is paying attention.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Madonna matches Elvis for top 10 chart hits at 36 with "Hung Up".
  
  
• Barney vs. 2pac - Google Video
  This is kinda lame, but the 2nd verse with 2pac's lil' homies is funny.
  
  
• Search terms on Kazaa to be blocked

MP3: Jenny Lewis - You Are What You Love

MP3: Raekwon - State of Grace

Kanye West feat. Adam Levine - Heard 'Em Say (video)

MP3: Deerhoof - Wrong Time Capsule

MP3: Pernice Brothers - There Goes the Sun

House Blinger, Crazy Christmas Lights (video)

Super Mario Bros. theme on marimba (video)

Kylie Minogue's comeback, David Bowie movie star, World's ugliest dog dies

David Bowie will join the Christopher Nolan-directed "The Prestige," the Touchstone Pictures/Warner Bros. drama that stars Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and Michael Caine.

American Idiot mash-up album, Bad day for Sony

Bush confused by locked doors (video)

R.I.P. Link Wray

Link Wray is known for being the first musician to experiment with the sounds that pioneered rock and roll and punk styles. Link virtually invented fuzz tone by deliberately punching holes in his amplifier speakers. He was also a true pioneer of the use of distortion on instrumental rock recordings....
Link was a musician’s musician:
Elvis Presley invited him home in the 50s.
Bowie, Dylan, Van Zandt and Springsteen attended Link's concerts since their early youth.
John Lennon carried Link's music on his travel jukebox.
Jerry Garcia played on Link's record in the 70s.
Pete Townsend wrote liner notes.

Arctic Monkeys vs. Missy Elliott mash-up (mp3), Future of TV, more

• Sam Flanagan has created a freaky mash-up of Arctic Monkeys vs. Missy Elliott - I Bet Missy Looks Good on the Dancefloor (d/l at the bottom of the page). Considering that 'Get Ur Freak On' has been mashed with the likes of Le Tigre and Jesus and Mary Chain, this isn't that shocking. But it's still a bit unexpected and uncanny how it works.
  
  
• The Coming Golden Age of Television
  Fascinating post from Mark Cuban about the future of television, HDTV, and why internet TV downloads will not replace cable TV.
  
  
• Degree Confluence Project: Composite World Map
  A neat project to photograph the entire world.
  
  
• Not sure if anyone actually cares, but DMX is going to jail for 70 days for being late to his sentencing hearing. His excuse: asthma attack. Like I haven't heard that one before.

Date Baiting: Match.com Fraud

Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp., is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees. In some instances, the suit contends, people on the Match payroll even went on sham dates with subscribers as a marketing ploy.

Tom Cruise South Park episode, The Fountain trailer, King Kong trailer

• Can't believe I'm 26 today. I wonder at what point birthdays are supposed to fill us with more dread than joy. I can't help but think that 21 was the zenith in the inverted parabola of birthday enjoyment and that it's all downhill from here.
  
  
• This site has a clip from the infamous Tom Cruise South Park episode
  
  
• Trailer for Darren Aronofsky's mysterious new film, The Fountain.
  Trivia: Brad Pitt initially cast in lead role, left to do Troy (hahaha).
  Trivia 2: Hugh Jackman had to shave off all of the hair on his head and chest for scenes in the last third of the movie.
  
  
  
• And this one's been out since the beginning of November, but it's worth a look if you haven't seen it: King Kong trailer. Despite my initial fears, it doesn't look like Peter Jackson will disappoint.

The dancing robots in Beck's "Hell Yes" video