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clear your schedule: Music websites that aren’t this one

Electroacoustic übersite Fluid Radio has added a user forum to its webzine/record label/radio station/online retailer/photography/iPhone app format. Seriously, for the website you thought already had everything... In our first of two novelty sites, The Best...

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Listen to Andrew Bird’s Film Score for “Norman”

I'll have to admit that I'm a little confused as to what exactly is going on here. Andrew Bird was drafted to compose the entire score for the 2010 film Norman but apparently that score...

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Natacha Atlas responds to Wikipedia

(email|facebook|twitter) The user-driven internet has its issues, to be sure. Natacha Atlas addresses one of them here. It's engaging throughout, but this excerpt reads like an executive summary: --- Wikipedia may have been a good idea...

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Facebook Teams Up With Spotify

Love the new Facebook design or not you have to love the fact that they are finally trying to get music integrated onto the site in a user friendly way. Up til now the best...

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AC/DC: “Have A Drink On Me”

(email|facebook|twitter) Australia produces some great hard rock and some fantastic Shiraz.  So why not combine the two? A Fly On The Wall tells us that AC/DC already has. To wit: The Australian band has entered into...

"Freddie Mercury meets Shirley Bassey"

In what promises to be a lively interview, Adam Lambert discusses the unreleased Muse track “Soaked,” which he covers on his (ironically titled?) debut For Your Entertainment.

Listen to the Muse version below. I simply can’t post anything from Adam Lambert’s album. It is so overproduced and overmixed and overhydrated that it begins to sound exactly the same way a video game looks. I was a fan during his run on American Idol, and believed the comparisons to Matthew Bellamy to be fair. Both have a cocky, high-flying, and acrobatic vocal style, and both straddle the fence between delicate and brash. So Lambert’s performance of “Starlight” made sense, as did this cover:

“Soaked” is a slightly odd Muse track, to be sure. But For Your Entertainment is hands-down the disappointment of the year. We were expecting glam metal wrapped in progressive rock. But what we got was a Britney wrapped in a Justin.

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