Myspace went from being the big social media site to being the next one to go down the crapper. Facebook killed it eventually, and then Justin Timberlake decided to become one of its owners. With Tim Vanderhook his co-buyer, they are going to unleash a new Myspace that focuses on musicians. People that can be seen wearing a raymond weil/

“In a single sentence, it’s a social network for the creative community to connect to their fans,” Tim Vanderhook said. “We’re going after artists, right after this we’ll be talking to various artists to come on the platform. We want to give them a chance to help build it with us. We’re really far along, but we really want that last twenty percent to really be crafted by more people like Justin that actually know the tools and things that they need.”

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Shouldn’t take you long to remember the guy in this video. The great Michael Winslow from the Police Academy movies. Known for his uncanny ability to make any sound you could ever think of just with his voice.

Just recently saw a video of him that started to trend on Youtube with him looking to have mastered his sound effects even further. First video is a Led Zepplin song with him using his voice not only to sing exactly like Jimmy Page, but to play guitar like Robert Plant.

Then I tossed in an older video of him doing Jimi Hendrix National Anthem.

Awesome. I’ve always been shocked that this guy wasn’t more successful.

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Poor girl

While I am not a pop music fan I like to look at some Katy Perry I won’t lie. I can tolerate her music of course, and my friend’s little “angels” certainly enjoy her music so I hear it enough. I’d rather read the fine print on my annuities I think.

Katy Perry has to cancel two dates on her summer concert tour. The pop star was hospitalized for severe dehydration after a food poisoning incident.

According to Facebook, Jam Productions, the company Perry employed to promote her concert, announced she has rescheduled her July 8 show at Chicago’s Allstate Arena for August 21, and her July 9 show at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center for August 23. These were the original venues of the postponed show dates.

Yeah this matters not to me. Until I see her in a Playboy spread I’m really not all that interested.

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I don’t listen to Lady Gaga at all. Sure I HEAR her music because it is everywhere, but I don’t consider myself a fan. Pop music just isn’t my main genre so I don’t really get into it. I still find her to be a top notch sideshow though, and admire her ability to not only market, but her creation as well. Not just her wearing of ridiculous clothes together like equestrian boots and a tut or something weird, but everything is crazy.Her own creation, and not a studio cookie cutter pop tart like Britney, or one of those annoying boy bands.

Her marketing ability I have always been fond of. Her sale of her new album “Born This Way” for one day on Amazon.com at 99 cents is a great plan. Not only will it likely push her album sales in the first week over 1 million copies, it brings all kinds of publicity. Not only does the price set it, but Amazon’s servers were flooded with the sale and couldn’t handle the traffic. Even more news to get awareness out.

The one day 99 cent sale ended up processing over 330,000 copies on Amazon that day alone so she got over a third of the way there in one day. In fact because of the technical issues Amazon priced it at 99 cents 3 days later for those that missed out and expected to show at least another 150,000 purchases to put her halfway there on Amazon alone. Talk about a cheater’s way to the top of the Billboard charts eh?

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If there ever was an awesome pair to put together it would be these two I think. Lady Gaga and Ozzy couldn’t be anything, but entertaining. Ozzy decided to talk to the press instead of just picking up a htc desire android to give LAdy Gaga some advice.

Sound advice it may be too…

“I do think Lady Gaga should take a break for a little while. She’s getting to be too much,” Ozzy told Us Weekly in a telephone interview last week. “And she doesn’t watch the exposure of her clothes. She’s just too overexposed.”

The 62-year-old Brit believes that while the Princess of pop has the chops to be the next queen, her talent is often overshadowed by her attention-seeking get-ups (case in point — meat dress).

“She could be the next Madonna if she played her cards right. I like her, but I’m getting a bit sick of her,” Ozzy told the mag. “When I turn on the TV, I see her wearing another lampshade or whatever… I think she’s really, really entertaining, but she’s doing a bit too much. Every day it is something else.

“The specialness of her is gonna get killed if she doesn’t calm it down,” he added. “…Someone should whisper in her ear and say back off for a couple of months — let people gain interest back.”

Agreed. Take a break. Music is still the most important part. Being a sideshow doesn’t make you last forever.

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Every once in a while I find some music that is so forgotten by me, but completely off the wall that I have to listen to it. In fact I find it incredible and want to download it, and put it on my iPod, and play it for other people who will give me funny looks. I have found some of that music, and I will now describe it.

Since I’ve played video games my entire life…well before I had to worry about how to get rid of blackheads. I had a Vic 20 computer when I was about 4 and have played games on that through the Commodore 64 & 128, Apple IIc green monitors with floppy discs, Pong, Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, NES, Genesis, SNES, Playstation 1, 2, & 3, Xbox & 360, PC Gambeboy, PSP, etc. you could say that video game related materials are of interest. In fact you could say that I am a video game nerd.

Recently I heard the song Pac Man Fever and remembered it from childhood. Someone was talkign aobut it so I looked it up on Youtube and found out there was an entire album back in 1982 about video games by Bukner & Garcia entitled Pac Man Fever. The title song even rose all the way to #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts!

As I saw this song on Youtube I saw others and immediately looked further. I found it with 1 seeder on the interwebs and it took me 6 hours to download this 50 MB album. Yeah the seeder sucked. I am now listening to some amazing tunes from the vault such as the ones below:

Cheesy, and amazing. It even has game sounds in it. Crazy for back in 1982. These songs are about video game…lol

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she’s gonna let him speak, but Beyonce had the best video of all times. Of all times.

Tayolor Swift after a somewhat unusual moment at last year’s VMA’s is going to sing about the incident this year. Nobody knows exactly what it is yet, but I am just going to assume that it is going to be comedic and not crude. Who knows though. Maybe she is going to go all Eminem on Mariah, or 2Pac Hit ‘em Up on Biggie. I’ll watch it on Youtube in 2 months when I remember it happened and maybe it will become a fad. I am nt expecting much, but I do have some new outdoor patio cushions I am looking forward to putting out.

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I don’t know abut you, but over the last decade, or so I have kind of grown out of Michael Jackson. That doesn’t mean that anytime I see a video of him performing I don’t stop to watch it, but he didn’t exactly kept up with the changing times in music, or at least he didn’t have something I really needed to hear recently.

I suppose it could me my disdain for pop music now, but probably more to do with how difficult music in general is to keep up with now that there are so many avenues to release it. Blows your mind that so many still fight against p2p and bit torrent sharing when many of these groups wouldn’t even have a career if it weren’t for the ease at which they can spread their music.

Anyways, the Jackson estate, fresh off a $250 million deal with Sony will be releasing the first of several no doubt, albums from MJ’s library. Doubtful they need cheapestautoinsurance.net now. Jackson as approximately 100 unreleased songs that will probably come out as well as those featuring such artists as Akon, Will.I.Am, and Ne-Yo.

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Every once in a while something special comes along and gets captured on Youtube. Be it some crazy dancing guy at a music fest that starts a party out of nowhere with the power of one, or just some guy that takes small clips of himself dancing in front of the people in dozens of different countries. These things make me feel good. They bring people from ALL OVER together to share a common joy of being human. We all feel truly connected by the smallest of things, and it makes us happy. I can feel the love.

Music is one of the greatest ways to do it. By sharing a short video on a video cards like how Susan Boyle dazzled the world on Britain’s Got Talent. Kids are even more amazing. Like this kid that is a 6th grader singing a Lady Gaga song at a small school show. Just watching this being performed gives me chills. Seeing the outpouring of awe and inspiration of all the people that view it, as well as the obvious dark losers that have to bash everything because they have no soul getting ostracized from the group just makes me feel good.

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In 1964, Johnny Cash recorded an album entitled “Bitter Tears”. The album was never released, but it was written as a protest album over the American mistreatment of Native Americans.

Back in 1964 the album was released, but got little to no air time. Cash even went as far as taking out a full page ad in Billboard lashing out at his label as well as DJs. He asked them “where are your guts?”.

Ultimately the album fell into obscurity, but some supporters want the album to receive a proper release today. The album itself is actually available on iTunes as well as Amazon so it isn’t like it isn’t out there, but some claim that even die hard Cash fans have likely never heard it.

Leading the campaign is Antonino D’Ambrosio, author of the book “A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears” (Nation Books, 2009). D’Ambrosio, who wrote about the intersections of music and politics in his book “Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer,” discovered “Bitter Tears” while digging around the Bowling Green State University Sound Recordings Archives. He describes himself as a passionate Cash fan, but this was the first time he’d heard the album.

“It would have been very easy for Johnny Cash to make a civil rights record at that time,” he says. “He didn’t. He chose to focus on the very real struggle of another group, and the album is relevant to this day.” Wonder if he knew: does extenze work?

D’Ambrosio says he’s not the only Cash fan in the dark: “I’ve met Johnny Cash buffs who have never heard of this album. While it is technically available, it’s pretty buried.” He says that he has reached out to executives at Sony, which owns Columbia Records, but hasn’t heard back. An e-mail to Sony Legacy seeking a response wasn’t returned by press time.

“People don’t talk about the struggles of the Native populations,” Carter Cash says. “Their issues get swept under the rug, and my dad tried to do something about it. No other major artist has ever made a full album about Native rights.”

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