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What does Viacom see in Hype Machine?

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2008-04-30 19:40:06 by matt burst in Burst Labs
...music blog aggregator that surfs the web for blogs sharing (for the most part) illegal MP3s. Users then listen to the MP3s, and download them if they wish. It is a portal into a world that major labels tend to look the other way on, a world of sharing copy-written material for free in the name of promotion. Not that Im against it, mind you,...
 
Tags: hype machine, hype machine traffic, viacom, traffic, viacom offers, traffic daily, viacom strips, built-in traffic, wikipedia viacom
 
 
 
 
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Extreme Music and Burst Labs join forces

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2008-04-30 14:31:50 by Daniel Holter in Burst Labs
...music updates and occasional email newsletters, well, there was a good reason weve been practically off the grid for the past few months Weve joined forces with Extreme Music - the undisputed masters of production music - part of the legendary Sony/ATV music publishing empire We love their attitude, dig their vibe, and are absolutely jacked...
 
Tags: music, production, production music, extreme music, regular music, legendary sonyatv music, sonyatv, email, killer music
 
 
 
 
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Music Supervisor cheat sheet (April 2008)

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2008-04-17 16:54:31 by matt burst in Burst Labs
...Music Supervisor cheat sheet was such an unwieldy success (read: cmon, someone read it right? Is this thing on? ), we here at Burst Labs decided to make it a regular feature I like to think of myself as the production music worlds Sally Struthers if I help just one person, it will all have been worth it Alphabeat - Fascination See post to...
 
Tags: post, audio, headphones, headphones improve, word headphones, dad, attractive girls, girls, confuse people
 
 
 
 
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How much is too much?

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2008-04-17 00:32:43 by matt burst in Burst Labs
...Music I get that Im not normal - I dont have the same knowledge, or appetite, or technical savvy of the average joe - but I am pretty similar to the average Idolator commenter, or Tumblr user. Are there enough of us to create revenue for every single music recommendation start-up that cons a venture capitalist (whether CEOd by Jakob Lodwick...
 
Tags: music discovery site, music, music recommendation site, shitty metal band, band, music blogs, site, peter gabriels thefilter, peter gabriels
 
 
 
 
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Indie record stores selling MP3s?

2008-04-14 17:01:10 by matt burst in Burst Labs
 
While perusing my voluminous RSS feed cache, I stumbled upon this article at Coolfer. The gist of it is that Phonopolis , an indie record store in Montreal, is calling for labels and record stores to partner in the sale of download codes According to Phonopolis Stores would stock a larger number of codes than they would CDs (they would of course...
 
Tags: stores, record stores, codes, download codes, stock cds, mp3 codes, cds, indie record store, stock
 
 
 
 
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Gawker Media dumping Idolator, 2 others

2008-04-14 16:10:54 by matt burst in Burst Labs
 
...music news blog, as well as travel blog Gridskipper and politics blog Wonkette Idolator is being snapped up by Buzznet , the same company that recently purchased Stereogum and is being bankrolled by the Universal Music Group Denton reported via an internal memo (which he suggested be leaked) that the three websites accounted for only 3% of...
 
Tags: idolator, travel blog gridskipper, politics blog wonkette, nick denton, denton, internal memo, universal music, idolators response, tied
 
 
 
 
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CBS Greenlights Mark Burnetts Jingle-Writing Reality Show

2008-04-14 15:00:03 by matt burst in Burst Labs
 
Last year, we posted about Mark Burnett s new idea, a sort of American Idol for jingle writers. Well, it turns out that CBS has decided to pick up the series, and casting is happening as we speak, with episodes to begin airing this summer May I just say, from an advertising perspective, what a stroke of genius this is The fact that the show will...
 
Tags: mark burnett, inexplicably wonderful, cbs, jingle writers, american idol, figure, world, series, pony
 
 
 
 
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Honesty is the new Irony

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2008-03-28 21:10:57 by matt burst in Burst Labs
...music blog Catbirdseat offers his take on the scene-and-be-scene at his Muxtape In the interest of full disclosure, we thought it would be interesting to post our own Muxtapes (isnt the prevailing attitude toward arbitrarily supplementing the English language amazing these days?). No artifice, embarrassment, or posturing allowed, just the...
 
Tags: muxtape, personal music tastes, burstlabs takes, lester bangs, ryan catbird, 0-tastic glory, perfect vehicle, pitchforks word, english language
 
 
 
 
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Music Supervisor cheat sheet (March 2008)

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2008-03-11 19:15:36 by matt burst in Burst Labs
...music, and lack nothing for self-confidence in my own taste*, I thought Id do an infrequent post here and there to aid music supervisors in locating that perfect musical backdrop for their project (assuming, of course, they have somehow failed to find what they were looking for in our incomparable catalog Here are some of my current...
 
Tags: music, aid music supervisors, perfect musical backdrop, infrequent post, insane amount, current favorites, incomparable catalog, project, taste
 
 
 
 
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What is the musical equivalent of a brilliant PSA ?

2008-03-11 14:40:48 by matt burst in Burst Labs
 
I want to write music that embodies everything great about this ad Clever, well-thought, and perfectly executed. The kind of thing that makes you think man, I wish Id thought of that. Fn brilliant. Kudos to M&C Saatchi . [ms video after the jump (more
 
Tags: brilliant, video, embodies, clever, jump, perfectly, kudos, music, well-thought