While music-business types were recovering from a week of drinking margaritas and arguing over how to better market themselves online at the South By Southwest festival, old-school Internet expert Anil Dash was discussing how The-Dream was using search-engine optimiation in order to make his name stick out among a host of search results for Susan Boyle: MORE »
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The-Dream’s Search-Engine Optimization Is A 10
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Amanda Palmer, Neutral Milk Hotel, And A Bunch Of High School Students To Collide Online Tomorrow
A Needle That Sings In Her Heart, the musical based on Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea that was written by shape-shifting singer Amanda Palmer with the students of her former high school in Massachusetts (most of whom had never heard the record before embarking on this dramatic adventure), premiered last night. If you’re not in the Northeast and curious as to what might result from this stew, the Internet provides: The play will be broadcast live on Palmer’s Webcam channel tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. ET. Hooray, now NMH multi-instrumentalist Julian Koster doesn’t have to be sad about living in Athens! [Party On The Internet via On The Download] MORE »
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Lily Allen Shows Off Newish Song, EMI Shows Off Newish YouTube Strategy
Yesterday, charming blogabout Lily Allen debuted “The Fear,” the lead single off her forthcoming album It’s Not Me, It’s You. The song is a brighter version of a track she previewed on MySpace back in April, and it burbles along nicely, with shiny synths underscoring Lily’s simple singalong melodies. But I’m also interested in how Parlophone, her label in the UK, decided to treat the pre-video period on YouTube, because it actually represents something of a smart move. MORE »
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How To Use Your Artists’ Blogs: Part One In A Series
Kanye West is now using his blog to write “clarity posts”–pithy denials of items going around the gossip-o-sphere. MORE »
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Things Everybody Should Read Right Now Dept.
“How I Spread A Lie About Ghostface Killah, or Why You Should Not Trust Goddamn Wikipedia.” (NB: A quick Idolator search for “chunky Mario” only turned up an old piece on Perez Hilton. Whew!) MORE »
