Following yesterday’s closure of the pop-centric MP3 blog Kevipod Music, which happened because the site posted a link to a snippet of Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body,” other sites hosted by Google’s free-blogging service Blogspot, like ALi’s Blog, have been subject to DMCA smackdowns as well, although with a little Googling you can see that sites that are independently hosted or on Wordpress.com have so far escaped Carey’s label’s wrath. MORE »
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Mariah Carey’s Game Of Whack-A-Mole Continues
Mariah Carey Comes Down Hard On Music Blogger
While trawling my RSS feeds, I found a post from the interminably cheery MP3 blog Kevipod Music that was decidedly different in tone than the site’s other posts. A snippet: “Sorry for the inconvenience, this was not hacked by any way or was it stolen from kevipod. I know most of you are concerned. Kevipod will be tried to be restored.” Going to the blog revealed that the site had been stripped of its pop-starlet-filled banners, and the “sorry” post was the only one on the site–because the original Kevipod Music had been taken down by Blogger after one too many DMCA complaints*. Which is probably not all that surprising, given the site’s penchant for linking to leaked copies of singles on ZShare and other third-party upload sites, but it still bummed out the 18-year-old Madrid resident, who took to another blog to plead his case: MORE »
Janet Jackson’s “Feedback” had a small uptick in sales this week, meaning that it could actually move up the Hot 100 after stalling a few weeks ago. MORE »
Ashlee Simpson’s forthcoming album has apparently been pushed back yet again, after being moved from last November. MORE »
Janet Jackson is apparently going to make her triumphant return to network TV on the 2008 Grammys, if this overly excitable backup dancer who talked to MTV Canada–because he’s from the Great White North, duh!–is to be believed. MORE »
leak of the day
Paula Abdul Is Not Really Making Her New Single Her Own
ARTIST: Paula Abdul
TITLE: “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow”
WEB DEBUT: Jan. 18, 2008 MORE »
In the latest attempt to save her increasingly doomed solo album, Nicole Scherzinger is going the “singing about her vagina over a vaguely ‘ethnic-sounding’ track produced by Akon” route. MORE »
In the latest attempt to save her increasingly doomed solo album, Nicole Scherzinger is going the “singing about her vagina over a vaguely ‘ethnic-sounding’ track produced by Akon” route. MORE »
Will a breathy, “ethnic”-sounding single with a title that will no doubt inspire a thousand “punani” jokes save Nicole Scherzinger’s Her Name Is Nicole? Probably not, but that doesn’t mean Jimmy Iovine won’t pour wayyyy too much money out of Interscope’s coffers in an effort to find out! MORE »
Will a breathy, “ethnic”-sounding single with a title that will no doubt inspire a thousand “punani” jokes save Nicole Scherzinger’s Her Name Is Nicole? Probably not, but that doesn’t mean Jimmy Iovine won’t pour wayyyy too much money out of Interscope’s coffers in an effort to find out! MORE »
