Never Hit The Customer

A Radio Shack Employee in Wisconsin is facing a disorderly conduct and battery charge for hitting a customer.



According to police the customer attempted to return an item and the employee refused. When the customer asked for a manager, the 52-year-old male employee began punching the customer. A nearby bystander called 911.




The employee is due in court May 19.

Do You Use RapidShare?

Is file hosting system RapidShare giving away your information?

Check out this article here:

RapidShare hands over user info in Germany, users panic

Moby: Shot In The Back Of The Head

Moby - Wait For Me
new album on june 30

J Dilla - New Album Details

A new album from the late J Dilla is due out in June. Jay Stay Paid, a collection of posthumous tracks, is to arrive June 2nd on Nature Sounds.

Guest spots include Black Thought of The Roots, Raekwon, and Doom. Pete Rock arranged and mixed the album.

Here is the Tracklisting:Jay $tay Paid:
1. KJay FM Dedication
2. King
3. I Told Yall
4. Lazer Gunne Funke
5. In the Night (Owl N Out) - While You Slept (I Crept)
6. Smoke [feat. Blu]
7. Blood Sport [feat. Lil Fame]
8. caDILLAc
9. Expensive Whip
10. Kaklow (Jump On It)
11. Digi Dirt [feat. Phat Kat]
12. Dilla Bot Vs. the Hybrid [feat. Danny Brown & Constantine]
13. Milk Money
14. Spacecowboy Vs. Bobble Head
15. Reality Check [feat. Black Thought]
16. On Stilts
17. Fire Wood Drumstix [feat. DOOM]
18. Glamour Sho75 (09)
19. 10,000 Watts
20. 9th Caller
21. Make It Fast (Unadulterated Mix) [feat. Diz Gibran]
22. 24K Rap [feat. Havoc & Raekwon]
23. Big City
24. Pay Day [feat. Frank Nitty]
25. See That Boy Fly [feat. Illa J & Cue D]
26. Coming Back
27. Mythsysizer
28. KJay and We Out

Hot Release : Boxcutter

Named after a signal sent into space to detect alien lifeforms, ‘Arecibo Message’, by Boxcutter, is being heralded as possibly his best work.



This album is more upbeat than the dubstep producers previous two albums 'Glyphic' and 'Oneiric'. It also features more guitars and bass than the previous albums which gives the listener a bit more texture. Check it out here:

thanks to beatportal for the player.

A Picture I Took

Not bad for being in a moving vehicle...

The Bloody Beetroots ft. Steve Aoki

This is a great video....


The Bloody Beetroots feat. Steve Aoki - Warp from Francesco Calabrese on Vimeo.

Music Video

2009 - Dim Mak / Downtown

Prod Co.: I'm Productions

Director: Francesco Calabrese

Dop: Mauro Chiarello & Luca Esposito

Editor: Davide Mauti

Ex. Producer: Francesca Chiappetta



(director's cut coming soon)

In The News... Sunday Edition

A woman in Zurich lost her job after calling out sick and perusing Facebook. (yahoo)

The Golden Rules of Blog PR-(bigmethod) - a few things artists should consider.

Couple Charged In Body Parts Killing (UKnews) - people are sick.

There is a great article on Internet Evolution titled Big Entertainment Wants To Party Like It's 1996. check it out (here)

R.I.P. Bea Arthur

A look at an extraordinary actress:






For more info : Bea Arthur Wiki

Useless Fact Of The Week

The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia – a Latin term meaning "for example."

Man Ticketed For Cursing

Joseph Loflin of Texas City, Texas was ticketed recently for cursing when confronting his neighbor. Loflin confronted his neighbor, Michael Rainey, after finding cat feces in his backyard.

"'Your cat has been back there defecating in my back yard,'" Loflin said he told his neighbor. "I used the slang word, the four-letter word to describe what the cat was doing." Rainey said his 13-year-old daughter was within earshot of the conversation. "I said, 'Look, I've asked you twice. This is the third time. Don't use that language in front of my daughter. That's when he responded, 'There's nothing wrong with the word, and if I want to use the word, I'll use the word.'"


Charged with disorderly conduct, Loflin said,"I didn't call him a filthy name. I didn't call him... I didn't use any profanity towards him. I used it as a noun, then I used it as an adverb to describe what his cat was doing. I think it was greatly taken out of context."

Articles Of Note

Things here have been quite busy so for this post I thought I should share some articles of interest:

Time Warner Tells The FCC To Shut Up - (arstechnica) - Time Warner warns the FCC that now is not the time to discuss net neutrality.



Freedom On The Net: A Global Assessment...(freedomhouse) - an interesting report on how countries fair on privacy.



Indie Radio Station Launches Free Music Site - (paidcontent)



Is The Internet Ruining Everything From Music To Human Accountability? (huffpost) - you decide.

Beware What You Buy....

A 42-year-old man had been arrested in London recently for spraying a mix of feces and urine on food, wine, and children's book in several British stores. The unemployed chemist, Sahnoun Daifallah, has been sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty of four counts of contaminating goods.



A court found that Daifallah carried the mix of his waste in a container of weed killer concealed in a laptop bag with a nozzle poking out of the bag. He was thus able to spray large areas, leaving a powerful stench and causing tens of thousands of pounds (dollars) worth of damage.



Daifallah's first target was The Air Balloon pub and restaurant near Cheltenham in western England around lunchtime. He next visited a bookstore in Cirencester, dousing hundreds of books — many of which were in the children's section. Two days later he struck in Quedgeley, where a customer spotted him squirting the frozen french fries at a supermarket. He then drove four miles to another supermarket, where an employee in the wine section noticed him acting suspiciously and reported an overpowering stench.



Police were able to identify Daifallah using security camera footage. When they raided his home, they found a stockpile of the substance and plans to spread it. Plastic bags containing excrement were marked with the names of cities on them.



He represented himself in court and plead guilty. He was labeled a high risk to public safety by Britain's security agencies and deportation prceedings have begun.

Useless Fact of The Week

Gasoline has no specific freezing point . It will freeze at any temperature between -180 and -240 degrees Fahrenheit. When gasoline freezes, it never solidifies totally, but instead will resemble gum or wax.

A Picture I Took

The little specks in the sky are birds.

What A Creep....

Kansas - A 48 -year-old man has been charged with breaking into his 23-year-old neighbor's apartment and stealing.



The woman told police that she arrived home to find her neighbor coming out of her bedroom naked. She immediately called police and the man was arrested as he was trying to leave his apartment in possession of the woman's panties.



The man is currently facing two counts of aggravated burglary as well as theft and lewd and lascivious behavior. The woman was with her child when she walked in on him.

More News...

In case you missed any of the happenings..... here we go.....


Celldweller recently posted his intentions with his upcoming release "Wish Upon A Blackstar" ...
Celldweller.com


Phil Spector was convicted (looking more and more like PeeWee's dad)... convicted


A Police officer is suspended for hitting a protester..... bbc


And finally for now....


Excellent work being done over at the T.R.O.Y. blog.... check out the latest... Who Flipped It Best?

The Prodigy -Warrior's Dance

This is a great video. It is also my favorite and most addicting track on the album.

For more on the band's videos check out their youtube page: theprodigychannel
the band's website: prodigy
to buy the cd/dvd : amazon or prodigy store

Useless Fact Of The Week

Mosquitoes do not bite. They stab. A mosquito has no jaws; when attacking a victim, it pierces it with its long proboscis and sucks the blood up through a nasal tube. gross.

Chris Brown - Nothin (Rihanna Tribute)

Chris Brown - Nothin (Rihanna Tribute)

Posted using ShareThis

I don't know. I sort of like the song. That is why I am posting it. It's sad what it is being attributed to though.

Interesting Finds

I am a constant -need-of stimulation-type of person.... I am all over the web and with my that in mind... here are some articles and things I wanted to share:



Music Think Tank recently put up a great article about corruption in the music industry:
Crime And Corruption



On hypebot, Scott Perry of New Music Tipsheet guest posted a wonderful response to a recent Lefsetz letter saying that artists should stop making albums.... Defense Of The Album



Mp3 blogs destroying the music scene? Radio Slave thinks so.... Beatportal



Well, I think this little bit is enough for now. Enjoy!

A Picture I Took

Actually, my daughter took it...I thought she did a great job.

Kurt

It has been 15 years......

I remember when I first heard the news. I was watching MTV after a boring day at school. Unplugged was on....it was Nirvana. I had an idea.... with my newest disposable camera I was going to practice taking pictures of the t.v. I didn't know why I felt compelled to do it. Then, after the episode MTV News Breaking News.... Kurt Loder delivers the news.... my heart sank.

I developed the film. I got two decent pictures. There is something haunting in one of them. It was one of those moments where Cobain looks up at the camera and almost looks completely at peace. I still have that picture. Because of the t.v. lighting and the lighting from the stage.... there's this blueish haze around Kurt. It's ghostly in my opinion.....and sad.

I wasn't just some crazed fan of Nirvana. I felt a lot in the lyrics, the music, the truth that was in Kurt's eyes. It's a shame what fame can do to you.

I wanted to post a video... one that still after all this time affects me a little. I find it as haunting as the picture I took. Unfortunately Universal Music Group won't let me embed it from YouTube. That and well....there's Courtney...(if you know what I mean). Tonight I am listening to as much Nirvana as I can cram in....a reminder that I am older now than Kurt was when he died. Reminding myself to live my life. Taking in the lesson.

Here's the link: You Know You're Right

Placebo Update

Not long ago I posted on the announcement of the band, Placebo's, new album. SEE HERE:cbmam/placebo

I am now pleased to update the information with the official tracklisting for the new album titled "Battle For The Sun"

‘Battle For The Sun’

1. Kitty Litter
2. Ashtray Heart
3. Battle For The Sun
4. For What It's Worth
5. Devil In The Details
6. Bright Lights
7. Speak In Tongues
8. The Never-Ending Why
9. Julien
10. Happy You're Gone

11. Breathe Underwater
12. Come Undone
13. Kings Of Medicine

Also, as a reminder... don't forget that in order to check out the band and get a free track you must go to: Placebo

Chris Cornell And Trent Reznor

"You know that feeling you get when somebody embarrasses themselves so badly YOU feel uncomfortable? Heard Chris Cornell's record? Jesus." -- Trent Reznor (twitter)



Recently former Soundgarden/Audioslave singer Chris Cornell spoke to The Washington Post
where he spoke about his new album, Scream -"I think it's pretty obvious. I did the math as soon as I made the decision to make that record.", the critics, Trent Reznor,- .."That's kind of childish. To be honest, if I wanted to go out to blast records that I hate, I would be sitting on Twitter 24 hours a day blasting 96 percent of what comes out -- maybe 98 percent of what comes out. (Laughs.) There's a lot of music that I don't like.", working with Timbaland, and Soundgarden.




It is unclear to me when exactly this interview occurred. However it does seem that there was some bitterness in it.



I am all for artists to continue to recreate themselves. I was willing to give the album a listen and give a little review here on the blog. I couldn't. I could not sit through the album. It made me uncomfortable.



I will leave this to all of you to decide.



In what looks like the final say in this matter......




We will always have Trent's April Fool's Day joke.

Bonus Photos

My two favorites from this past weekend.

Articles.....

Why do we hear some song lyrics wrong? Interesting study : Blinded By The Lyric



Snoop Dogg has masterminded a new remix album of songs by Johnny Cash :nme



Roots,Goldie,Cool Kids, others on board for Audiotistic -- (another show I want to be at)



and finally for now...

Policewoman admits night job as hooker

Useless Fact Of The Week

A grasshopper can leap over obstacles 500 times its own height.

Trailer for "Dub Echoes"

Here is a trailer for the documentary "Dub Echoes." It seems pretty thorough.

Dub Echoes - trailer from Bruno Natal on Vimeo.

"Dub Echoes" tells the story of how the jamaican dub influenced the birth of much of what we hear today, from electronic music to hip hop. A documentary by Bruno Natal.

Ioda Announcement

IODA, the global leader in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music and film industry, today announced worldwide distribution agreements with five new Dance & Electronic music labels and three new boutique retailers.

Read the full article here:Mi2n

Congrats To Beatport

Consumed By Music And Media would like to congradulate Beatport.com on their win in the Best Dance Music Speciality Retailer Category at this years IDMA. This is their fourth time being honored.

To learn more please go here: beatportal

The Last Kiss

Jadakiss album out April 7th. The album is what I expected from Jada... pretty cohesive. Take a listen for yourself.

The Last Kiss

A Picture I Took

Just because.

Music May Help After A Stroke

Researchers in Britain recently have said that stroke patients may be able to restore their vision by listening to music they like.



Three patients, who lost awareness of half of their field of vision, were studied at the Imperial College London. The patients were able to identify shapes and lights in the side of vision that was depleted much more accurately when they listened to music they liked than when there was silence or music they did not enjoy.



Functional MRI scans showed that listening to pleasant music as patients performed the visual testing that areas of the brain linked to positive emotional stimuli was activated. The activation of those regions coupled with the improvement of the patients' awareness of the visual world.



Dr. David Soto, lead author, said in a statement, "Music appears to improve awareness because of its positive emotional effect on the patient, so similar beneficial effects may also be gained by making the patient happy in other ways."

A Picture I Took

It looked kind of creepy to me...

New NIN Album

Trent Reznor has posted a brand new album for download.... check it out here: nin.com





In case you didn't know...it's a prank...happy april fool's day!