Music Landscape

Spotify’s Ken Parks @ SXSW Panel: No Reason Why Music Biz Can’t be ‘Multiples of Size’ Larger
Tuesday’s SXSW conversation with Spotify chief content officer Ken Parks was a crash in the questions, concerns and changes that come from shifting from a download mindset to a subscription and streaming mindset. Even though Spotify has infused innovation and excitement into digital music, the company came into SXSW dogged by persistent questions.

Liquid Spins is off and running with its trade mark non-traditional distribution models.

This Liquidclix Spincode shows a great example using Carrie Underwood’s new Good Girl Gone Bad…Try it out with most any bar code app on nearly any smart phone.

Women Scorned

The success of Adele’s 21 album, and the raw emotion that oozes out every time any of the tracks are spun has led to extreme success for the artist. http://liquidspins.com/albums/49852

The overall mood of this album is very similar, atleast to me, to the success that Alanis Morissett had with her 1995 release of Jagged Little Pill http://liquidspins.com/albums/32047

Both albums had to do with the emotions each woman felt after being scorned in a relationship.

Of course, this is just my opinion, but, before you respond, I encourage you to download each album again and listen to them front to back…these women have more in common than you might think.

BEASTIE BOYS HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART 2

BEASTIE BOYS HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART 2 TRACK LISTING REVISED, REPLACED ENTIRELY WITH SONGS ORIGINALLY RECORDED FOR

HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART 1

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In what can only be described as a bizarre coincidence, following an exhaustive re-sequence marathon, Beastie Boys have verified that their new Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 will be comprised of the same 16 tracks originally slated for inclusion on Hot Sauce Committee Part 1.

The record (part 2 that is) will be released as planned in spring 2011 on Capitol.

The tracks originally recorded for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 (which now are actually back on Part 1) have now apparently been bumped to make room for the former Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 material. Wait, what?

“I know it’s weird and confusing, but at least we can say unequivocally that Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 is coming out on time, which is more than I can say about Part 1, and really is all that matters in the end.” says Adam “MCA” Yauch. “We just kept working and working on various sequences for part 2, and after a year and half of spending days on end in the sequencing room trying out every possible combination, it finally became clear that this was the only way to make it work. Strange but true, the final sequence for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 works best with all its songs replaced by the 16 tracks we originally had lined up in pretty much the same order we had them in for Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. So we’ve come full circle.”

Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 marks Yauch, Mike “Mike D” Diamond, and Adam “Ad Rock” Horovitz’s first full length effort since 2007′s Grammy winning all-instrumental The Mix-Up. The new track listing of the album is now as follows:

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1. Tadlock’s Glasses
2. B-Boys In The Cut
3. Make Some Noise
4. Nonstop Disco Powerpack
5. OK
6. Too Many Rappers (featuring NAS)
7. Say It
8. The Bill Harper Collection
9. Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win (featuring Santigold)
10. Long Burn The Fire
11. Funky Donkey

12. Lee Majors Come Again
13. Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament

14. Pop Your Balloon
15. Crazy Ass Shit
16. Here’s A Little Something For Ya

Recently nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, Beastie Boys are the single longest lived hip-hop act to continue to enjoy commercial and critical success. Formed in 1981, Beastie Boys first changed the course of popular music when their 1986 debut album Licensed To Ill became the first hip hop record to reach #1. Since then, Diamond, Horovitz and Yauch have amassed 40 million in record sales of a critically acclaimed canon including 1989′s landmark Paul’s Boutique, 1992’s Check Your Head, the #1-debuting trifecta of 1994’s Ill Communication, 1998’s Hello Nasty and 2004’s To The 5 Boroughs, and 2007’s The Mix-Up. Beastie Boys’ innovative videos earned them MTV’s Video Vanguard Lifetime Achievement award in 1998, while a Madison Square Garden show shot by 50 audience members was painstakingly edited into AWESOME; I F—-N’ SHOT THAT!, which debuted at Sundance in 2006. The band has also been lauded for its humanitarian efforts, ranging from organizing the Tibetan Freedom Concert series which drew attention to the Chinese government’s human rights violations in Tibet, to the New Yorkers Against Violence benefits, whose proceeds went to organizations chosen for their efforts on behalf of September 11th victims least likely to receive help elsewhere.

The exact release date of Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 and touring plans will be announced once details are available

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What are SOPA and PIPA?

Many mainstream U.S. websites are going dark today in protest of bills circulating in the House of Reps.
What are SOPA and PIPA?
SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the “Stop Online Piracy Act,” and PIPA is an acronym for the “Protect IP Act.” (“IP” stands for “intellectual property.”) In short, these bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web sites, but, in our opinion, they do so in a way that actually infringes free expression while harming the Internet. Detailed information about these bills can be found in the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act articles on Wikipedia, which are available during the blackout. GovTrack lets you follow both bills through the legislative process: SOPA on this page, and PIPA on this one. The EFF has summarized why these bills are simply unacceptable in a world that values an open, secure, and free Internet.

As the CEO of a current National Internet Brand that is moving into International Waters, I am am currently building a knowledge base surrounding these bills to assist me in making a more informed decision for my company and my investors.

More to come…