Perhaps to celebrate that his very Autotuned voice was spared by Jay-Z’s attempt to go all killing-spree on the technology, T-Pain posted a picture of a 10-pound, 197-karat, $410,000 chain to his Twitter account on Sunday, referring to himself as “Señor Recession Proof” while he did so. And in a sign that he probably won’t end up like Scott Storch, he later defended his choice to buy the chain with the assertion that his five-year-old–one of three children he has with his wife–already had a $4 million trust set aside, so why not do something stupid with what I guess is his walking-around money? A larger picture of the chain after the jump. MORE »
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T-Pain Can Apparently Still Afford To Buy You (And Me) (And Everyone Else) A Drank
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“Paste” Throws A Hail Mary Pass
Rumblings about Paste being in financial dire straits started over the weekend, and the news that the magazine will soon launch an appeal for readers to donate money to its cause–in exchange for downloads from the mag’s marquee artists, and, of course, the continued survival of the publication–would seem to confirm suspicions that the economic crunch–not to mention the music industry’s hard times–has adversely affected yet another music-related media outlet. MORE »
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Drinking At Home: The Music-Industry Repercussions
Have you been cutting back on your trips to the pub because of recessionary fears, or just because you like to mix your own drinks? Were you the sort of person who would go to bars where music was playing, if only to drown out the drunken conversations of the people next to you? Well, the company responsible for collecting music royalties in the UK would like to blame you for less money falling into their pockets. MORE »
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Hey, remember when Clear Channel’s bigwigs were blustering about “localism” and making the radio stations they own from coast to cast more vital to their immediate communities? Yeah, well, the company just laid off a bunch of people, including morning hosts in Cleveland, sports guys in Cincinnati, and a whole mess of other DJs and program directors around the country. Can you say “Seacrest in”? [FMQB] MORE »
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The Recession May Result In Even More People Being DJs
Let’s say you lost your job. Would any of the thoughts cycling through your brain on first blush involve a decision to finally pursue your long-held dream of spinning records for drunken people who won’t stop yelling that they want to hear “Don’t Stop Believin’”? If The New York Times is to be believed, there are indeed people who are plowing their severance packages into learning about the finer points of fading and scratching; enrollment at the New York DJ academy dubspot has doubled in the past year. (It should be noted that touting enrollment “doubling” sounds a lot more impressive than saying “300 people are laying out $1,700 so they can learn how to twist knobs.” Trend story-slingers of the future, take note!) MORE »
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Finance / Parenting Expert Duff McKagan Thinks America Will Bounce Right Back From The Hard Times
Duff McKagan may have an album coming out, but he’s also penning a finance column for Playboy’s Web site. (Diversification: The mark of someone with financial smarts.) So what does the former Guns N’ Roses bassist think the future holds for the economy and / or blogging? (Please be optimistic, please be optimistic.) MORE »
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Music Can Soothe Your Savage Beast
Wanna survive the recession with your sanity? Pick up a guitar. According to this Reuters article, that’s what 56-year-old optometrist Howard Levy did. Now he feels a lot better about his job, which has become more stressful due to the economic downturn. His band of eye-care professionals is called OffAxis, and he calls music “totally a stress buster.” He’s not the only one: MORE »
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Lucinda Williams Might Be The Mother Teresa Of Touring
It’s easy to hate high ticket prices at shows,… MORE »
