Heavy music was dealt a huge blow this week, with the shuttering of independent label Hydra Head Records, a casualty of the recording industry and…
The best thing about this book is the title. Seriously, who wouldn’t want to learn about how to stop parasites? Especially when they are digital!…
Radiohead just released its latest album, The King Of Limbs, today online. It’s a day earlier than expected, and unlike their last release, In Rainbows,…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtIhedSMQXA”] Interesting news for both fans of NIN and followers of fan culture, fan-works and ownership. The grassroots fan organized video production collective This One…
Until recently, Clay Shirky was best known as the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. The book was widely praised…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCwaYb16hNk] If you don’t know the artists (Faith No More & Kylie Minogue) and musical genres (J-pop & hallyu) mentioned in the title of this…
Greg Kot’s Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music is a must-read for those interested in how economics combined with listener actions have led the…
We write about Nine Inch Nails a lot around here at Learned Fangirl. It’s not just because at least one of us is a hugely…
Mashable is reporting (via NY Post) that Facebook is planning to get into the online music game : The long-standing rumor that Facebook will launch…
I gave a test run to MySpace’s new and “improved” music store/community this weekend. I want to give it a little more time, since it…