Posts Tagged ‘Music’

Is this an attempt at pointing out the insanity of labeling words with self prescribed negative connotations….or just some funny shit?

Google is planning to launch an online music downloading service tied to its search engine, the Wall Street Journal reported, a move that would pit it against Apple and its popular iTunes site.

The sun has been the inspiration for hundreds of songs, but now scientists have discovered that the star at the centre of our solar system produces its own music.
Astronomers at the University of Sheffield have managed to record for the first time the eerie musical harmonies produced by the magnetic field in the outer atmosphere [...]

The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an enterprising, creative, and service-oriented archivist to join the staff of Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) as Archivist for the Grateful Dead Archive. This is a potential career status position.

A coalition of mega-bands and singers outraged that music — including theirs — was cranked up to help break uncooperative detainees at Guantanamo Bay is joining retired military officers and liberal activists to rally support for President Barack Obama’s push to shutter the Navy-run prison for terrorist suspects in Cuba.

Kanye Reminds the World He’s an Asshole

Posted: 13th September 2009 by Veritas in Entertainment
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Leave it to Kanye West to produce one of the most infamous moments in VMAs history before the 2009 show was even an hour old. It happened after Taylor Swift’s victory in the Best Female Video category for “You Belong To Me,” which beat out Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).” Just moments [...]

DJ AM Found Dead at Age 36

Posted: 29th August 2009 by Veritas in Entertainment
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NEW YORK, New York — Adam Goldstein, also known as DJ AM, has been found dead in New York City at the age of 36, Access Hollywood has confirmed.

Collections of B sides, outtakes and oddments tend to imply a holding pattern, staving off a creative impasse: not so with Sam Beam. Under the Iron and Wine moniker he’s simply produced a huge amount of material since 2002. This double album, divided into demos and studio recordings, just goes to show how his creative [...]

KUALA LUMPUR – Muslims in Malaysia have been barred from attending a concert by U.S. hip hop band the Black Eyed Peas sponsored by Guinness which is owned by the world’s biggest spirits group Diageo.

NEW YORK – Rock legend Jimi Hendrix’s first recording contract worth $1 and erotic audio and video tapes sent by Madonna to her old bodyguard went on sale in an online auction on Monday.
Other artists and prominent figures featured among the more than 450 items offered in the rock ‘n’ roll and pop art auction [...]