Napster and Circuit City team up for music downloads
Circuit City Store Inc. and Napster Inc. have teamed up to offer a new digital music service cleverly called “Circuit City + Napster.” (I wonder how many marketing gurus it took to come up with that one.) The new service, which starts this coming Sunday, will give consumers unlimited downloads for $14.95 per month or 99 cents per download.
It’s hard to imagine what exactly Circuit City + Napster’s competitive advantage is here. With iTunes already deeply entrenched in the online downloading business, this looks like a pretty desperate attempt by Circuit City to become more relevant. I just don’t understand why someone would choose to go with the new service over Napster.
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Turning Up the Heat on the conversation about Hip Hop
So I pick up the latest issue of Rolling Out Magazine. Big up to black indie press. I go to a page where it says, Spring Fest Miami 2007, hosted by AG Entertainment and Radio One. These are the acts performing live according to the listing:
YOUNG JOC, Boy N DA Hood, RIC ROSS, YING YANG TWINS, TRICK DADDY, D4L, CRIME MOB, DJ UNK, JIM JONES, MIKE JONES, LIL SCRAPPY, LLOYD, RICH BOY, JIBBS, RASHEEDA, CANTON JONES, MIMS, YOUNG BUCK AND G UNIT, BLAK JAK, T PAIN, SLIM THUG AND MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED
With all this talking closed doors, in public, on the radio, internet, and news about what’s right or what’s wrong with Hip Hop and the messages that are being said against women, gun violence, drugs etc. RADIO ONE, owned by a black woman, Kathy Hughes, co signs for this type of concert where many if not most of these artist are talking about the very things “so-called” people want to be changed in Hip Hop.
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Lil Romeo planning to jump from hip-hop stage to USC basketball court
Lil’ Romeo says he’s bound for the University of Southern California, where, if all goes according to plan, the teenage hip-hop star would become Romeo Miller, basketball player.
The high-school junior has committed to playing basketball for the Trojans in 2008, Dave Lindsay, a spokesman for Lil’ Romeo’s online label, UrbanDigital Records, said Friday.
USC spokesman Dave Tuttle declined to confirm or deny the report, but said the university hasn’t received a signed letter of intent from the young rapper.
“We can’t comment on any recruits or potential recruits until we have a signed letter. That’s an NCAA rule,” Tuttle said.
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Schwarzenegger takes eco car on MTV
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is headed to MTV to promote Earth Day with an 800-horsepower car that runs on renewable biodiesel fuel.
The governor’s appearance on a special Earth Day episode of the popular show “Pimp My Ride” set for Sunday is the latest environmentally themed event for Schwarzenegger, who drew international attention for signing a global warming law last year.
For the show, videotaped earlier, mechanics installed the powerful engine in a converted 1965 Chevy Impala, producing a vehicle that accelerates from zero to 60 mph in three seconds.
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Andrew Hill, jazz pianist and composer, dies at 75
Pianist and composer Andrew Hill, one of the most vital and groundbreaking artists in jazz’s post-bop movement during a career that spanned a half-century, died early Friday after a three-year struggle with lung cancer, his record label announced. He was 69.
Hill died at his Jersey City, New Jersey, home just 14 months after releasing his final album, “Time Lines,” a farewell that earned him album of the year honors from Down Beat magazine and jazz artist of the year from Playboy. He was still performing just three weeks ago, when Hill appeared with his trio at Manhattan’s Trinity Church.
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Baldwin demands TMZ reveal sources
Alec Baldwin has posted an apology and statement to his fans on his website, and his attorney has filed court papers demanding website TMZ reveal their source of the audio evidence in the ongoing custody battle over Ireland Baldwin.
Baldwin filed an order in Los Angeles County Court on Friday. He wants to know who leaked the voicemail message he left his eleven year old daughter to celebrity watchdogs TMZ.
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