Want to get tickets to see a bunch of bands we love? We’re not giving tickets away — but our friends at Pretty Much Amazing are — details:

PMA is giving away a pair of tickets to this year’s HARDNYC featuring headliner M.I.A. Other artists performing include Sleigh Bells, Rye Rye and Die Antwoord. Date, location and time can be found on the poster above. We will also hook up the winner of the pair of tickets with M.I.A.’s /\/\/\Y/\ on vinyl.

To enter, leave a comment on this post with your thoughts on M.I.A.’s new album. Also share the post on FaceBook or Retweet on Twitter. A winner will be picked at random next Wednesday, July 14th.

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Skewby, “Proving You Wrong Since 1988 – The Mixtape”

Hip-hop heads, Skewby is in the house and he’s letting you know right up-front: this ain’t what you’re used to. Proving You Wrong Since 1988 is a warning filled with shots fired at the status quo of Memphis’s traditional style of rap. I’ve had this sitting in my queue for a couple of months now, and to say I slept on it would be an understatement. Don’t you be a sleeper, too — if you do not have this mixtape, you are sleeping on one of the illest mixtapes I’ve heard come out of Memphis in my life.

If you’re looking for another gangsta rap mixtape, you’re in the wrong place — this is straight original styles mixtape with the love and respect to the masters I have never seen the likes of here. Shouts to DJ Crumbz and DJ Charlie White. Wake up and download it here now now now gooo.

Skewby – “I’m Here Now”
Skewby – “No Critics Allowed”

(You can find out more about Skewby over at his blog, Something About Skewby or follow him on Twitter)

In a quite fair, though surprisingly swift and wide-reaching manner, much has been made of Justin Vernon’s songwriting and of his band, Bon Iver. Their remarkable EP For Emma, Forever Ago, is an album so simple and subtle in its beauty that it could end up lost in the shuffle of your playlist. We are so fortunate that from this small voice has come one of 2008′s most beloved recordings. If your heart was ever broken and you knew it, Justin’s falsetto overtones and wrenchings of lost love spoke to you at a time when you needed to hear them. And like magic, Bon Iver has become the little band from Wisconsin who could.

Oblige the kind folks at Daytrotter, then, with a visit to their site to listen to Bon Iver’s particularly looming discontent that is all throughout their wonderful Daytrotter Session today.

Bon Iver – Flume (Daytrotter Session)

To get the rest of these wonderful tracks, head over to Daytrotter by clicking here.

So listen, Ye. First off, I would bet you don’t read blogs and, most likely, you don’t read mine. That’s okay with me. I am just another fucking fan out there who lost his cool after being up all night. I was tired and cranky last week. I want to apologize for being a dick. I admit that my comments were pretty harsh on you about what went down at Bonnaroo. I sent my Idolator update on the morning after it happened, four or five hours sleep after the fact, so I was still pretty stung about the delays and all that. Not that it probably matters to you, but I wasn’t trying to get in the “‘Ye Hater” line.

But I didn’t understand what caused all the drama last Sunday morning and, a week later, we still don’t know for sure. You haven’t said anything about it, and I’m surprised.

I know you’ve got the dopest live show in the universe and you wanted to share it with the Bonnaroo crowd. Would you please say something about why your set started almost 2 hours late and got cut 75 minutes short? I know, you’re going to say “that doesn’t concern you”. Well, indeed, it concerns all the fans who were at Bonnaroo that had great expectations.

I personally left Sigur Ros at 2:00 a.m. to walk over to your show, knowing that if I didn’t I wouldn’t be able to get a seat. When people were starting to boo you and leave, I stayed because, like the faithful, I believed you were coming up just any minute.

By the time I realized you weren’t coming until way fucking late, I had missed everything else I wanted to see — Talib Kweli, Lupe Fiasco, Chali2na, Ghostland Observatory. I might have been honored by your lateness for even showing up to that fake shit, but I was actually let down by the shortness of the set list and a lot of people aren’t going to forget this. Feel me?

I retract any insinuation that your show “sucked” or was not up to par — I really liked it, truth be told. I just wanted to have the full experience that was promised. I wanted it to live up to John Pareles’s massive praises. You and I both know it wasn’t the same show you’ve been hitting the people with, that it had to be edited down for some reason or another.

I’ll even blame Pearl Jam if you want me to. Just tell me how I’m supposed to feel. Right now, I feel like one of those people in the movie Tommy who went to “Tommy’s Holiday Camp” only to throw away their eye shades, earplugs and corks. I am not alone, and you gotta know that.

The people who came to see you would have come at 8:15 or 9:30 or 4:30 or whenever you said you were taking the stage — all that had to happen was for you to show up even just *fashionably* late and give us the full strength of what you had prepared. That didn’t happen, so please just put me (and everyone else) in check on this whole thing. Come out and call us bitches or whatever, give us something to explain the whole delay that makes sense. Don’t hide behind publicists and P.R. people. Someone who is as intelligent and vocal as you are doesn’t have to hide behind anyone. Speak for yourself. Otherwise, the hate and confusion will just persist.

Look, I’m going to respect and support you anyways. I don’t care what someone else does. But I like that feeling of being able to say to people, “See? I told you there’s a reason why Kanye is one of the most important voices in modern music. He ain’t scared of anything or anyone.” I can’t come right out and say that, though, until we clear this up. Nahh mean?

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Now, on a props note, I have to say this — I got your back when it comes to the Ice T. vs Soulja Boy controversy. Your assessment of the situation is absolutely accurate. For those not aware, here’s what Kanyeezy had to say in his official blog on the whole thing –

Soulja boy is fresh ass hell and is actually the true meaning of what hip hop is sposed to be. He came from the hood, made his own beats, made up a new saying, new sound and a new dance with one song. He had all of America rapping this summer. If that ain’t Hip Hop then what is? A bunch of wannabe keep it real rappers that ain’t even relevant, recycling samples trying to act like it’s 96 again and all they do is hate on new shit? Niggas always talk about the golden age but for a 13 year old kid, this is the golden age!!! That song was so dope cause everything he said had a hidden meaning… that’s Nas level shit… he just put it over some steel drums which is also some Nas shit if you had the 2nd album cassette with the bonus track “Silent Murder” on it. In closing… new niggas get ya money$$$$$$$$$$ Keep this shit fresh and original…. ain’t no fuckin’ rules to this shit and that’s what real hip hop is to me.

- Kanye West

This whole controversy is stupid as can be. Ice-T needs to check himself. He needs to go back to the dungeons of rap and find out what’s going on because all that f’in Tutuola time on Law & Order: SVU has fucked him up in the cranium. Maybe he’s not gettin’ enough Coco T? Whatever it is, this is the dumbest shit stirring in the history of hip-hop and it needs to be squashed. Appreciate you speaking up for the game.

Here’s Soulja Boy’s response

Here comes Ice-T trying to “Iceberg” his way back into the game. Whatever, yo.

DJ Skeet Skeet – Party Like A Rockstar (DJ Skeet Skeet’s Totally Dude! Megamix)

Also, here’s an hour-long mixtape my man’s hooked you up with. I haven’t peeped it, but something tells me it might be pop-n-fresh.

Hour Long Mix from DJ Skeet Skeet

You can kick it with DJ Skeet Skeet over at Eat Skeet by clicking that damn lank right char

We already know that Webcasters small and large are outraged at the prospect of having to pay higher royalty fees to the music industry, particularly when compared with what is required of their satellite and terrestrial radio counterparts.

But the heightened royalty rates enacted by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board earlier this year and scheduled to take effect July 15 are not the only thing that’s firing up leading Internet radio industry companies like RealNetworks, Yahoo, Pandora and Live365.

In letters distributed to various Capitol Hill offices on Thursday morning, the four companies’ CEOs argue that the music industry will also be forcing collection of more than $1 billion per year from three services alone–Yahoo, RealNetworks and Pandora–in the name of covering so-called administrative costs.

Here’s how they say they derived that figure: When the CRB decided earlier this year to change the rules for Internet broadcasters, it also decided to levy a $500 minimum annual fee per Internet radio “channel.” SoundExchange, the non-profit music industry entity that collects the royalty and other fees on behalf of record labels, says that minimum payment is supposed to cover administrative costs.

But since some of the larger Internet radio services potentially offer their listeners hundreds of thousands of unique “channels” (RealNetworks’ Rhapsody offered more than 400,000 in 2006 alone, according to a company spokesman), the companies view the ruling as forcing them to multiply that mandatory minimum payment accordingly (for Real, that would amount to $200 million).

Such an amount would far outpace the $20 million in total royalty fees collected by SoundExchange from the Internet radio industry last year, the CEOs note in their letter. And besides, it’s not even clear that those payments would go to artists, as royalty payments do, the companies argue.

“While we don’t imagine SoundExchange would keep this $1 billion all to itself, this lack of clarity is absurd,” RealNetworks spokesman Matt Graves told CNET News.com.

SoundExchange did not respond to requests for comment.

Thursday’s letter is just the latest step by the Internet radio industry to combat the CRB ruling. An alliance of commercial Webcasters and National Public Radio has already asked a federal appeals court for an emergency halt to the CRB’s decision, which is currently scheduled to take effect July 15. They’re hoping politicians will move quickly to enact legislation that would overturn the new requirements and level Internet radio royalty rates with those required of satellite radio providers.

Suggested Reading:

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/09/1651202
original article from CNET News

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