Moby Unveils New “Heavy Metal” Band: DiamondSnake

so, a few months ago i got together with my friends dave and phil and tomato and started a metal band: diamondsnake. i love making music by myself in my studio, but i also really love playing as loud as possible in a rehearsal space with a bunch of friends, especially when it's heavy metal that would sound best listened to in a 7-11 parking lot in indiana in 1985.

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• Paul McCartney rejected EMI and took his catalog indie.
• Facebook partnered with Pandora for social music. Facebook is now 41% of all social net traffic.
• iLike founders have left MySpace executive team.
• Atlantic Records has asked fans to help fund new Natty release via Pledge Music.
• EMI may need to lay off many more staffers to keep going. U.S. could be hardest hit.
  
• VH1 adds 44 shows, but where's the music? 
• The 'Broken' System: Deconstructing Consumption - a Kyle Bylin essay.
• Last.fm to add indie "Play Direct" feature, but participating artists won't be getting paid.
• Non-profit CASH Music launches two more free viral promo tools.
• Beyond Oblivion joins MySpace in News Corps' music portfolio.
• Nimbit expands direct to fan toolkit with NimbitPro.
• Do four chords really make up every hit song?
• TuneUp adds Windows Media Player support & social features.
• Skybox offers fans an alternative to filesharing.
• Webby Awards name music film and video nominees.

Green Day and American Idiot

Green Day has taken American Idiot to Broadway and is receiving high praise from The New York Times

Pitchfork's Coachella Photo Book

Couldn't make it to Coachella you can check out a full gallery of bands at Pitchfork's Photo Book

Volcano Forces Coachella Cancellations

How does a volcano in Iceland impact Coachella in California?

As you've probably heard, volcanic ash from a series of eruptions under Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull glacier has been spreading across European airspace for the past two days, forcing European airports to cancel a huge number of flights. That's bad news for many of the Euro bands booked for Coachella and for the fans hoping to see them.
At the moment, the list of bands who won't make it out to the festival includes the Cribs, Frightened Rabbit, and, according to The New York Times, Bad Lieutenant. UPDATE: According to the Coachella Twitter, Delphic have canceled as well.
On the Cribs' MySpace page, the band say they're "gutted" and that they won't make it "despite a Herculean effort". Frightened Rabbit, meanwhile, posted on their Twitter that a Coachella appearance is "unlikely... unless they allow us to headline Sunday night. In other words, no."
Gary Numan, booked for a Sunday set, wrote on his website that he might be able to make it to Coachella thanks to a late Sunday flight: "if we are very lucky, we might just make it to the festival site (a three hour plus drive from Los Angeles) in time for our slot but without a single second of rehearsal with Robin Finck, the American based guitar player for the US shows, who has never played with us before." The Times also lists Delphic as a question mark.

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State Internet Tax

As a result of the economic crisis our country is facing states are in the process of imposing taxes on digital downloads, including music and videos. Given the current state of the music industry the last thing we need is a price increase of 3% to 5% on our music, let them tax tobacco and other sins instead. Any price increases on music should be paid to the creators of music and those that invest in that creation, not the government. Please go to the below website and sign, and have your artists sign, the website petition. Any questions, let us know.

http://www.unfairdownloadtaxes.com/

BandPages on Facebook Offers Ways for Fans to Listen to Your Music

Study Finds U.S. Users are More Likely to Listen to Web-Only Radio

Vision Critical’s new three-country radio study finds a vast difference in the way US consumers with a smartphone are listening to radio, compared to their Canadian and British counterparts.

Interactive research and technology firm Vision Critical surveyed more than 3,000 adults in the US, UK and Canada and found that while those in Canada and the UK are using applications on their smartphone or iPod Touch to listen to AM/FM radio, US users are more likely to use their apps to listen to web-only radio and music streaming services. Among adults in the US who have listened to online-only radio in the past month, Pandora leads the pack as the favored online music service (42% having listened in the past year), followed by Rhapsody (6%), last.fm (5%) and Yahoo! (5%). The findings come from Vision Critical’s “Radio Futures 2010” study, conducted in February and March of this year. Further survey results will be shared at next Monday’s RAIN Summit West conference in Las Vegas.

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Music Industry Links Around the Web

• If Unpaid Internships Are Illegal, How Can The Music Industry Exist?... (Daily Swarm)
• 9 musical things to do with your Apple iPad. (MusicRadar)
• Copyright Criminals: How to Make a Documentary About Sampling - Legally. (The Atlantic) 
• Music Biz Activists Heading To Washington For Grammys On The Hill April 14-15. (Billboard)
• Google raises stakes in video, acquires Episodic. (ZD Net) Episodic "focuses on things like analytics, content management, monetization, mobile, and syndication".
• You, Too, Can Bankroll a Rock Band. (NY Times)
• WORTHY CLICK: GoRankEm.com - Find the best material from every artist as determined by their own fans.