Last Thursday, Sky Saxon of the Seeds passed away. His recent artistic output was a collaboration with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins called “Choose to Choose Love.” Will interest in Saxon’s work increase after his death, as it has done countless others in the past?
Later that day, the King of Pop Michael Jackson passed [...]
06.30.2009
06.23.2009
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About 11 days ago, an interesting interview with art director Frank Olinsky was published on the Smashing Pumpkins’ website.
Increasingly, a lot of “record” sales today are through online downloads of MP3s at AmazonMP3, AACs at iTunes, etc. While cover art is imbedded into the individual music file, to be shown as a visual on an [...]
06.16.2009
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As of June 16, 2009, if you go to The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien’s website’s music performance section, there will only be one song: “Got Some” by Pearl Jam. Since Pearl Jam currently has no record contract, and therefore they do not have to share publishing rights for their latest material with anyone else, [...]
