Here’s something to add to your list of Things You Never Thought You’d Ever See or Hear Ever in Life: Coldplay covering the Beastie Boys…?

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In keeping with his propensity for creating a parody of anything that happens in popular music (some might recall his parody of the damaged rock star turning to daytime TV by having his own short-lived show on Saturday mornings), Weird Al Yankovic has leaked his own upcoming album… with the title, “The Internet Leaks.” [...]

By Michael Geist
On Friday the government held its second copyright town hall. Only it wasn’t really a copyright townhall in the sense of bringing the community together to talk copyright in an open and balanced manner. Instead, the music industry stacked the room to such a degree that little else was discussed. [...]

It was a great week for Studio Manifesto…more great marketing advice for indies with the W5H post, loudness wars and live entertainment reconsidered with “Are music festivals worth your time and money?” and “Dire Straits Remastered”, strange instruments were featured with the hang drum post and the “Gallery of Weird Instruments,” and much more.

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Derek Sivers Posted a great piece today called Idea: Musician’s own website as definitive source of all info. Here’s an excerpt:
I think the musician’s own “.com” homepage website should be the one-and-only place the musician ever has to enter their info. It should be the sole definitive source for their music, photos, [...]