12 posts and columns on hip-hop

Music Sharing Service SoundCloud Raises $10 Million From Index, Union Square

in Media on January 8, 2011 at 8:52 am PT

Music start-ups have been a money incinerator for a long time, but that doesn’t stop investors from trying again. Here’s the latest example, which I first wrote about back in October.

New From Symantec: Norton Antivizzle for PCizzle

in News on September 2, 2010 at 10:04 am PT

Hip-hop star and noted role model Snoop Dogg is now lending his considerable moral authority to the fight against cybercrime. He’s teamed up with security software vendor Symantec to host an anti-cybercrime rap video contest.

Remember When NBC Didn’t Want You to Watch “Lazy Sunday” on the Web?

in Media on March 9, 2010 at 8:06 am PT

Those were the days. Now the network is trying to turn the original viral video into another viral video.

Music Funding Start-Up May Have Run Out of Funding UPDATED

in Media on February 23, 2010 at 8:41 am PT

Sellaband, the Dutch start-up that was supposed to let bands raise money directly from their fans, may have run out money itself. Bad news for Chuck D and Flavor Flav.

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Almost Famous: Michael Gregory of Auto-Tune the News

in News on December 18, 2009 at 11:25 pm PT

We went all the way to Brooklyn to visit with, ask some questions of and gather a few pertinent stats about Michael Gregory and Auto-Tune the News, the viral video series featuring mainstream news personalities and hip-hop style singing. No cute cats need apply.
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Easy Digital Listening: Sonos ZonePlayer S5

in The Mossberg Solution on December 15, 2009 at 3:15 pm PT

An all-in-one sound system plays digital music off a computer in several rooms, without the need to run wires around the house.
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Kara Visits Guitar Hero HQ (for a Sneak Peek of GH5, Band Hero and DJ Hero)

in News on August 31, 2009 at 1:01 am PT

Despite the challenges the music gaming industry has been facing of late–such as sales dropping, yipes, almost 50 percent in the U.S. this year–the top companies in the field are still churning out new products like it’s nobody’s business. Case in point is a spate of new products from the Guitar Hero division of Activision Blizzard, which is coming out this fall with three separate major launches, starting tomorrow with the GH5 and including the hip-hop flavored DJ Hero in late October. Here’s BoomTown’s sneak peek from GH’s HQ in Silicon Valley.
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Only One Beyoncé: Services Pick Up After Your Music

in Personal Technology on July 1, 2009 at 6:08 pm PT

by Geoffrey Fowler

TuneUp Media and MusicBrainz Picard aim to clean up and properly label personal digital-music collections.

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New Guitar Hero Rosensweig and Activision CEO Kotick Speak!

in News on March 24, 2009 at 6:21 am PT

As reported Sunday night by BoomTown, former Yahoo exec and Quadrangle Group partner Dan Rosensweig will become CEO and president of the Guitar Hero division of gaming giant Activision Blizzard. I chatted with both Rosensweig and Activision president and CEO Bobby Kotick yesterday about the move and where the gaming company is going in the year ahead. “I love music and I love big brands,” said Rosensweig, whose enthusiasm for music, especially for Bruce Springsteen, is well known in the digital industry.
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