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Wizard Rock

Wizard Rock

Do you believe in Nargles?  Well, Luna Lovegood does.  Who is that, you ask?  She’s one of the more colorful supporting characters in J.K. Rowling’s wildly successful Harry Potter series of books — which has blossomed into a lucrative film franchise since the early 1990s, a complete set of movies that just came to a conclusion in the summer of 2011 with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II.  The Harry Potter...

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Musicians’ Rights in the Media

Musicians’ Rights in the Media

Recent news stories in the media have described in detail the situation between Adam Levine and Fox News on Dish Network regarding Levine’s protest against the news channel to prevent them from playing Maroon 5 songs on the network.  The dispute took place via Twitter with Levine initiating things with a foul worded tweet at Fox putting down the integrity of the network.  Two anchors responded with derogatory remarks as well, telling...

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Music Then and Now

Music Then and Now

Music hasn’t changed in millions of years.  Not really.  It’s still made when someone with a better than average imagination puts sounds and feelings together in a way that other people can relate to.  Good music has always been universally appreciated by humanity since the dawn of sentience, and yet, many evolutions have taken place within it’s basic formats in the last century alone.  How have people changed the way...

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Debbie Harry Still Rockin’ Out

Debbie Harry Still Rockin’ Out

After eight years without an album, the 70′s new wave punk band Blondie has just released their latest EP, Panic of Girls. Always at the forefront of what the latest trends are in alternative music, Debbie Harry & Co. show us why they are still a powerful force in rock music with their latest. Having taking several hiatuses after their first round of chart-topping success back in the late 70′s and early 80′s, the band...

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Ownership and Free Music

Ownership and Free Music

With the advent of Spotify, Grooveshark, Pandora, and other streaming services that base their service success largely on their ability to deliver free high-quality music, a serious question about music ownership is brought up yet again. When should people have to pay for listening to a certain track? When does the promotion of an artist through free outlets stop adding extra marketing exposure for the artist and start losing them money...

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My Morning Jacket & The Muppets

My Morning Jacket & The Muppets

Disney seems to always be concocting new ways to make old classics modernly relevant and exciting. Now, for the newest Muppets rendition, Disney has put together an A+ tribute album titled Muppets: The Green Album. The ultimate Muppets tribute album was announced back in June on Pitchfork (a very fitting way to release a tribute album artist list that features mainly alternative and formerly indie bands), and now we are eagerly awaiting...

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