The much-anticipated return of Lady Gaga is upon us and the gurl certainly wasn’t exaggerating when she promised that her new album would be filled with gay anthems. To the glee of all the Little Monsters impatiently waiting for her the release of her album this May, on Thursday, Gaga released the full lyrics to [...]
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10 Hottest Aliens in Movies
December 1st, 2010 |
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Let me tell you why I love science fiction movies. For a start there are the spacecrafts, the mysterious and diverse planets, and the rich and intelligent plots. But also, there are the babes. Ah, the babes! How lucky we are that the writers, directors and producers of these movies seem hell-bent on festooning their [...]
FCC Pursues Negotiations with Broadband Heavyweights
June 22nd, 2010 |
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The FCC continues private meetings with broadband giants such as Verizon as the commission tries to move forward with its plan to more closely regulate the broadband industry. – As the Federal Communications Commission moves to intensify broadband
communications regulations under a set of rules already in existence for phone
companies, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s chief of staff, Edward Lazarus,
scheduled closed-door meetings with industry leaders such as AT amp;T a…
iPhone prices slashed to boost sales
June 1st, 2010 |
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Walmart has chopped down prices of iPhone 3G to $97 for a two year contract with AT&T. the reduction of prices is in place mainly to attract more customers as it is feared that sales of the phone may decline in anticipation of new releases of such devices in the coming days.
The trend [...]
ATandT to Begin Selling Palm Pixi Plus June 6
May 19th, 2010 |
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AT&T will join rival Verizon Wireless in offering the Palm Pres younger sibling, the Pixi Plus. The Pixi, which features webOS and a $49.99 price tag, will go on sale June 6. – The Palm Pre Plus wont be on the AT T Wireless network without
the Pixi Plus its less-expensive, non-sliding younger sibling for very
long. According to the carriers site, the Pixi Plus will make its AT T debut June 6.
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The June 6 arrival will make AT T the third network to offer the smartphon…
T-Mobile Makes Google Default Search, Replacing Yahoo
March 7th, 2010 |
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T-Mobile USA has replaced Yahoo with Google as its default search engine on mobile phones, such as BlackBerry smartphones. Yahoo says it will continue to work with T-Mobile, citing the recent partnership on Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger and on content services such as the placement of various Yahoo services on T-Mobile’s Web2Go portal. Default search deals significantly improve search engine market share, as users are more likely to carry out searches through the search engine presented by the browser.
– Wireless carriers AT amp;T and T-Mobile are playing a game of musical
default search engines, giving and taking away in a fun display of mobile phone
brinksmanship.
Days after iPhone carrier AT amp;T said it had chosen Yahoo as the default search
engine for the Android-based Motorola Backflip, T…
Shaun White Talks Rock & “Painful Miley†With Rolling Stone Magazine
March 3rd, 2010 |
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Two-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White wowed millions with his McTwist 1260 at the 2010 Winter Olympics, but most fans wouldn’t take the down-to-earth snowboarder for a music buff. White struck a Jimi Hendrix-inspired pose chatted about some of his favorite rock classic in the March 18 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine.
While many of Shaun’s [...]
Hockey Add Tour Dates
January 15th, 2010 |
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HOCKEY ADD 2010 TOUR DATES
 Hockey |
Portland’s Hockey pick up in 2010 right where they left off in ’09; touring the globe in support of their debut album Mind Chaos. After a string of West Coast dates, the foursome will play shows in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain and the U.K., before returning home to headline a club tour starting March 11 in Minneapolis.
The band’s new single “Song Away” hits Alternative radio on February 9 and the video was named one of the best of 2009 by iTunes as part of iTunes Rewind 2009. Hockey’s breakout first single “Too Fake” reached #25 at alternative radio and is still being spun at many stations around the country.
Hockey played their first New York City show last January and have since toured the globe non-stop, including the U.K. three times, U.S. festivals SXSW, Sasquatch!, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and CMJ, and almost every major European festival including Glastonbury, Hove, Peace and Love, Eurockenees, Solidays, Oxegen, T In The Park and Gurtenfestival, Leeds and Reading.
Additionally they have performed on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Fuel TV‘s Daily Habit, and on Later With Jools Holland and Live From Abbey Road in the U.K. Hockey’s Live From Abbey Road appearance will air in the U.S. on the Sundance Channel March 26.
Formed in Los Angeles five years ago by lead singer Ben Grubin and bassist Jeremy “Jerm” Reynolds, Hockey is now based in Portland, OR as a quartet with Brian White on guitar and Anthony Stassi on drums.
Watch Hockey perform “Too Fake” on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon here.
Watch Hockey at SPINhouse Live during CMJ here.
Hockey Tour Dates
01/13/10 Wed Vera Project Seattle, WA
01/15/10 Fri Bottom of the Hill San Francisco, CA
01/16/10 Sat Spaceland Los Angeles, CA
01/18/10 Mon Casbah San Diego, CA
02/10/10 Wed Gebaude 9 Cologne, GER
02/11/10 Thu Batschkapp Frankfurt, GER
02/12/10 Fri Knust Hamburg, GER
02/13/10 Sat Lido Berlin, GER
02/14/10 Sun 59 To 1 Munich, GER
02/24/10 Wed Koko London, GB
02/27/10 Sat Spring & Airbrake Belfast, GB
02/28/10 Sun The Academy Dublin, IR
03/02/10 Tue The Paradiso Amsterdam, NL
03/11/10 Thu 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
03/12/10 Fri Schubas Chicago, IL
03/13/10 Sat Outland Columbus, OH
03/15/10 Mon Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
03/16/10 Tue Johnny Brenda’s Philadelphia, PA
03/17/10 Wed Rock & Roll Hotel Washington, DC
03/22/10 Mon Local 506 Chapel Hill, NC
03/23/10 Tue The Mercy Lounge Nashville, TN
03/24/10 Wed Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, GA
03/25/10 Thu Cafe Eleven Saint Augustine, FL
03/26/10 Fri Club Downunder Tallahassee, FL
03/27/10 Sat BottleTree Birmingham, AL
03/29/10 Mon The Thirsty Hippo Hattiesburg, MS
03/30/10 Tue Spanish Moon Baton Rouge, LA
04/01/10 Thu Warehouse Live Houston, TX
04/02/10 Fri Emo’s Alternative Lounge Austin, TX
04/03/10 Sat The Loft Dallas, TX
04/06/10 Tue The Larimer Lounge Denver, CO
04/07/10 Wed Kilby Court Salt Lake City, UT
04/10/10 Sat Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR
The 15 Greatest Dystopian Films Of All Time
December 28th, 2009 |
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Dystopian films cover such a rich and wide variation of themes that picking the top 15 is just about impossible. Pretty much every film in which the future is shitty is considered dystopian, so that means everything from post-apocalyptic to corporate control to biological viruses. It’s a huge field, but here are doubtlessly some of [...]
52nd Grammy Noms: Phish, Béla, DMB, Byrne/Eno
December 3rd, 2009 |
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BELA FLECK, DMB, DAVID BYRNE/BRIAN ENO, PHISH RECEIVE GRAMMY NOMINATIONS
 Bela Fleck |
The 52nd Annual Grammy Nominations were announced last night, including some relevant JamBase artists. To be eligible for an award, artists must have released a recording between October 1, 2008 and August 31, 2009.
Among those receiving nominations were David Byrne and Brian Eno‘s Everything That Happens Will Happen Today for Best Alternative Music Album, Dave Matthews Band‘s Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King for Album of the Year and Best Rock Album, Kings of Leon‘s “Use Somebody” for Song of the Year, Silversun Pickups and Zac Brown Band for Best New Artist, Bela Fleck‘s “Throw Down Your Heart” for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, T Bone Burnett for Producer of the Year, Steve Earle for Best Contemporary Folk Album for Townes, Neko Case earned two nominations for her album Middle Cyclone, one for Best Contemporary Folk Album and the other for Best Recording Package, Mos Def got the nod for Best Rap Album, and Phish‘s Clifford Ball DVD Box Set for Best Boxed or Limited Edition Package.
Beyonce led all artists with 10 nominations, while Kanye West, Jay-Z, Maxwell, Lady GaGa, and Taylor Swift all received a predictably large amount of nods.
The Grammys will be held on January 31, 2010 in Los Angeles. Major category nominations are listed below.
Record of the Year:
Beyonce: “Halo”
The Black Eyed Peas: “I Gotta Feeling”
Kings Of Leon: “Use Somebody”
Lady Gaga: “Poker Face”
Taylor Swift: “You Belong With Me”
Album of the Year:
Beyonce: I Am… Sasha Fierce
The Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D.
Lady Gaga: The Fame
Dave Matthews Band: Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King
Taylor Swift: Fearless
Song of the Year:
Lady Gaga: “Poker Face”
Maxwell: “Pretty Wings”
Beyonce: “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)”
Kings of Leon: “Use Somebody”
Taylor Swift: “You Belong With Me”
Best Alternative Music Album:
David Byrne & Brian Eno: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Death Cab For Cutie: The Open Door
Depeche Mode: Sounds of the Universe
Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It’s Blitz!
Best New Artist:
Zac Brown Band
Keri Hilson
MGMT
Silversun Pickups
The Ting Tings
Best Rap Album:
Common: Universal Mind Control
Eminem: Relapse
Flo Rida: R.O.O.T.S.
Mos Def: The Ecstatic
Q-Tip: The Renaissance
Best Rap Song:
Drake: “Best I Ever Had”
Kid Cudi: “Day ‘N’ Nite”
T.I. and Justin Timberlake: “Dead and Gone”
Jay-Z: “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”
Jay-Z: “Run This Town [ft. Rihanna and Kanye West]”
The complete list of nominations can be seen here.
Zombie Ball: Halloween in Austin
October 23rd, 2009 |
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From the Producers of Xingolati, Guy Grand Presents the Zombie Ball
 Spoonfed Tribe |
The Zombie Ball will be held at 4822 East Cesar Chavez, just a short bicycle ride from downtown Austin, TX. The event will feature three stages of music, including the First Responder Stage, a re-fashioned fire truck with an integrated solar system flying the second largest disco ball in Texas. The Haunted Ballroom will host the latest in Haunte’d Couture from Jennifer Ayers and the Zombie Cabaret. Sustainable Waves Solar Powered Sound and Staging is out to prove that they are not only the cleanest and most efficient sound company in the world, but also pack a creative punch.
Artists include: Spoonfed Tribe, PONG, Killa Dilla, Moving Matter, BoomBox, T Bird and the Breaks, Narcissia Dhial, FM campers, Princess Slay-ah, and more special guests.
Where:
Sustainable Waves Event Space
4822 East Caesar Chavez
Austin, TX
When:
Friday (10/30) and Saturday (10/31)
Time:
8:00 p.m.
Tickets:
ATandT Named Top ‘Green’ Carrier by ABI Research
September 17th, 2009 |
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An ABI Research report has named AT T the top “green” carrier, followed closely by Sprint Nextel. Separately, data from Juniper Research reveals that the push for greener mobility is coming as the direct result of consumer demand.
– The growth of environmentally sustainable, or “green,” mobile
handsets is primarily being driven by consumer demand, states a Sept.
17 report from Juniper Research, which suggests global shipments could
rise to 485 million units by 2014.
Even with incremental shifts in attitude from consumer…
Google, Apple, ATandT Responses to the FCC on Google Voice Fail to Satisfy
August 22nd, 2009 |
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Google, Apple and AT T all answer the Federal Communications Commission’s questions about the band of the Google Voice application from Apple’s iPhone App Store. Apple claims the competition was too close. AT T claims it had no bearing on the situation. Google answers the questions under a confidentiality cloak. The FCC is reviewing the companies’ responses, which are sure to draw more questions.
– If the public was expecting any startling wizard to reveal himself from
behind the curtain of controversy surrounding Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice application for its iPhone App
Store, it was sorely disappointed. In fact, answers about the issue from Apple,
AT amp;T and Google to the Fed…