Posts Tagged ‘nin’

Your Week in (Somewhat) Review: Funsize Friday

04.25.2008

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- New NIN Single – Trent Reznor pulls a… Trent Reznor and unceremoniously ships a single to radio and makes it a free download the day after it’s finished. At least the guy is keeping busy.

- PENIS THEFT! – 13 suspected sorcerers arrested in Congo for allegedly “stealing or shrinking” several men’s “special purposes.” That’s so crazy, it could never happ-OMG WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?!?!

- Pirate Bay Reaches 12 million users – I’ve got mixed feelings about this. Sure, it’s great that the Creative Commons movement has taken off, but it does kind of amount to mass theft. Speaking of the Pirate Bay and bittorrents…

- GTA IV Leaked a week early – Pre-release leaks have become common in the music industry, but seeing it on such a mass level for video games is certainly interesting. Thankfully, I’m not picking up GTA4 next week because I like actually leaving my apartment every once in awhile.

- Rush Limbaugh calls for riots at Democratic Convention – Really? Sometimes stuff like this gets taken out of context, but I’m pretty sure implying that a riot isn’t such a bad thing isn’t something you want to say on the air.

Funsize Bonus The world’s most annoying song – I’m proud (I think?) to say I listened to the entire thing. Lemme tell you, it’s pretty much an endurance test.

Funsize Bonus Bonus! The Dancing Outlaw – Trust me. It’s worth watching. The inspiring story of Jesco White, a tap-dancing, Elvis-impersonating West Virginian. Or, watch a 12-second summation of the whole thing.

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Raconteurs announce new album – you can buy it Tuesday.

03.18.2008

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In a move that’s becoming all too familiar, The Raconteurs, Jack White’s band with Brendan Benson, have announced that their second album is coming out really soon – like next week soon.

Consolers of the Lonely comes out March 25th EVERYWHERE:

“local mom and pop Indie retailers, corporate superstores, supermarkets, iTunes, Amazon, the band’s own website and any other location that could get the record up and going this quickly (some places couldn’t move this fast, so they will join in as soon as they can).”

While I really love this marketing strategy – in a day and age where album leaks months before a record drops destroy any real first impressions of the album – 3 times by 3 major artists, and we’re only a few months into 2008? Looks like we’re going to be seeing a lot of this kind of stuff.

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