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Feb 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM 1 min read

Lady GaGa Plays the GaGatar, electro-modern style

We’re not quite sure just what the heck Lady GaGa is playing here, but it looks like she’s got a keytar slash bass slash MPC GaGatar in the Haus. You can see Lady Gaga’s keytar thing in action in her video for Telephone & Dance in the Dark, below, unless it gets yanked by the YouTube police.

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Feb 17, 2010 at 9:49 AM 1 min read

Guns Don't Kill People, Lazers Do

Given that back story, Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do sounds pretty much exactly how you’d expect it to – complete with off the wall beats, uncontrollable lyrics, and awesometastic videos. ... My exposure to reggae is pretty much confined to people with the last name Marley, I don’t know the difference between dubstep and dancehall, and I used to like Sean Paul in high school.

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Feb 15, 2010 at 3:01 PM 1 min read

Week 11: Copyright, copyleft

Watch: Good Copy, Bad Copy (Johnson, Christensen, Moltke 2007) Read: Pouwelse, J., P. Garbacki, D. Epema, and H. Sips. "Pirates and Samaritans: A decade of measurements on peer production and their implications for net neutrality and copyright." Telecommunications Policy 32 (December 2008): 701-712. My last non-fiction week screens a documentary that takes a close look at fan-created media, sampling and copyright issues around the world. The film interviews Girl Talk who was introduced during week 8 and also DJ Danger Mouse who is another “king” of copyright infringement. What I felt was really valuable in this film was the way...

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Feb 12, 2010 at 9:00 AM 1 min read

Florence + The Machine - Drumming Song

Her voice deviates quite a bit from the version on the album . None the less it's a solid performance and just goes to show how authentic the performance is.

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Feb 11, 2010 at 1:14 PM 1 min read

Why waste your money at a studio? LCD Soundsystem has the solution

LCD Soudsystem have rented a mansion rather than a studio to record their latest music. This is the future of music, really awesome idea, create space! clip 1 from lcd soundsystem on Vimeo.

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Feb 10, 2010 at 4:41 PM 1 min read

Lusine - Two Dots video

Here is the music video to this Lusine song that I just heard. I first heard it on Pete Tong as the Nic Faniculli remix (which I cannot find ANYWHERE btw) I can't wait to get my hands on this song, its so sexy, and to prove it here is a sexy trig-themed music video:

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Feb 08, 2010 at 11:00 AM 1 min read

Week 10: Propaganda Model of Content Creation

Watch: Manufacturing Consent (Wintonick, 1992) Read: Seltzer, Trent. "RIAA, MPAA, and the Digital Piracy Issue: Comparing Public Relations Strategies and Effectiveness" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Sheraton New York, New York City, NY, . 2009-05-25 http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p14465_index.html Following with the previous weeks examination of corporate media and how their agendas affect the media we consume I wanted to look at a seminal Canadian documentary based on the propaganda model of media. The film does a good job of criticizing the media for being partisan and only interested in the agendas of an elite minority. The...

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