Alec Empire's New world Order - Nice Industrial metal piece!

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Alec Empire "New World Order" from C. Haering on Vimeo.

Saturday Electronic: Vanessa Mae: Storm

Saturday, February 20, 2010
Some neo-classical mixed with electronic. Vanessa-Mae is insanely hot to boot! You can tell she really enjoys her job.

Fucking Awesome Friday - Cannibal Corpse (kind of)

Friday, February 19, 2010
It would be hard to find anything more awesome than this.  I've always wondered what their lyrics were...

Cover vs Cover - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

Thursday, February 18, 2010
Dead or Alive's classic 1985 single You Spin Me Round (Like A Record). This week's cover battle is Dope vs Eiffel 65 (bet you had no idea they covered this!)



VS



Let the whole world know who wins this round in the comments!

WTF Wednesday: The inaguration

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
WTF Wednesdays are all about those videos you see that make you pause ask yourself... WTF? A little something to help you through hump day.


POISON - IKWN / Jaakko Eino Kalevi from miikka lommi on Vimeo.

Sunday Metal Mania

Sunday, February 14, 2010
In the grand tradition of Fark, here's a song to melt your face off this morning.

DevilDriver: Another Night In London

Saturday Electronic: Ladytron: Destroy Everything You Touch

Saturday, February 13, 2010
Awesome song. Amazing Video. It must be Fucking Awesome... Saturday? Oh, its time for another Saturday dose of Electronic music.

In Which Warner Music Goes Bankrupt

Friday, February 12, 2010
Warner Music Group, one of the 4 big labels, has announced that they stop all free online streaming of their label's music. Services such as Last.Fm, Pandora, and Spotify will not be affected currently, as this plan so far only effects new streaming services. A quote from Warner chief executive Edgar Bronfman Jr states:

"The 'get all your music you want for free, and then maybe with a few bells and whistles we can move you to a premium price' strategy is not the kind of approach to business that we will be supporting in the future."
Edgar is entitled to his opinion and to run his business as he sees fit, however I cannot fathom how he thinks this is a good move.  The sale of plastic disks has been declining as more people go online to find and buy music. The more people that hear your music on services like those mentioned above, the more potential buyers you have.

On the flip side, say you are signed to Warner. I'm no musician, but if I were I would definitely want as many people as possible to hear my music. Obscurity is a bigger threat than piracy to all but a handful of artists. Now the people who control your music just announced that they are making it more difficult for people to be exposed to your music. How does this help the artists that the label is supposed to represent?

This also ruins my plans for my music streaming service I had been dreaming up.  Without such Warner acts as Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, DevilDriver, Dio, Disturbed, Dream Theatre, Faith No More, Garbage, HIM, Jane's Addiction, Megadeth, Günther & The Sunshine Girls (ooooh, you touch my tra la la.. its classic!).. well you get the idea. Its just not worth it. Its a shame too.  I was going to call it XM, and it was going to be HUGE I tell you! Huge.

Way to doom your artists to obscurity Edgar.

Fucking Awesome Friday: Returns

Yeah, its been a while. No, I was not hit with one of the Google Blogger take downs. I almost lost my readership of 5 people with my extended break. So if you are still reading this, Thank you!

I'll give you all details of the last 2 months strung out like little hints over the course of the year as they do in almost every anime I've ever seen.

For now, I bring back Fucking Awesome Fridays with a post relevant to the situation: To Blog or Not to Blog. Enjoy!