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Capture The Crown Is A Fucking Joke

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Australian Asking-Alexandria-Core band Capture The Crown recently announced that they are touring in November with the likes of Woe, Is Me, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, Our Last Night, Secrets and The Seeking but wait for the other part, it’s an American …

Can Gotye Live Up To His Own Success?

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There’s no doubt Belgian-Australian multi-instrumentalist Gotye is a very talented man, either very talented or just lucky. Gotye’s most popular song that has been reaching number one in most English speaking countries and staying there for ages is the track, …

The Great Big Kony 2012 Scam

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There is a good chance you’ve heard of the campaign Kony 2012 being run by not-for-profit Invisible Children. A cause upon first glimpse that seems to be noble and relevant, wrong. Invisible Children are misleading everyone about Joseph Kony and …

Guitar Idols: A Dying Breed

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When most think of famous guitarists they think of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, Kurt Cobain, Steve Vai and Slash – how many of you non-musicians can name a modern day guitar idol that isn’t one of the …

The Dance Gavin Dance & Jonny Craig Chronicles

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If you’re not familiar there has been ongoing issues for a while now with Dance Gavin Dance vocalist Jonny Craig who has had a serious and gradually worsening addiction to heroin which resulted in him scamming his Twitter followers, and …

Whatever Happened To Imperfection In Music?

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Remember when artists used to make mistakes and bands like Metallica didn’t care about getting every single note sounding perfect? Many people probably wouldn’t remember or have long forgotten. Believe it or not there was a time producers never used …

Where Is The New Oceana Album?

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Whatever happened to Oceana supposedly releasing an album by the end of 2011? They were in the studio sometime in April, 2011 – they released those “A Fonder Reel” videos and announced a new female member as backup vocals and …

So.. About That Megaupload Seizure

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Unless you’ve been living in a cave, lost at sea, decided to go hiking in Nepal or just clueless then you’d know the Megaupload and all of its associated websites like Megavideo have been seized and the owners arrested, etc.

Apparently …

How The Music Industry Can Be Fixed

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Everyday we’re being told by some biased article or press-release from any one of the music industry lobbyist groups; MPAA, RIAA, ARIA – that pirating is harming the industry, yadda yadda yadda. The real question is: is the music industry …

Fuck You SOPA

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In a few hours Wikipedia will be deliberately going down for 24 hours in protest of SOPA which essentially is proposed US legislation that will break the internet if it goes through. Making sites who link to copyrighted material or …