Wesley Verhoeve

This kind of creative associative thinking is incredibly inspiring to me. It’s reminds me that there’s no ‘right way’ to think about something based on pure logic, and that the first logical take or opinion on a strategy isn’t always the best one. Time Switch is a wall clock designed to ’stop’ the time, for [...]

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Today the NY Times published a Brad Stone penned article called ‘Artists Find Backers as Labels Wane’, which explores a new business model applied to music by ‘Artist Investment Business’ Polyphonic. “…Polyphonic [...] will look to invest a few hundred thousand dollars in new and rising artists who are not signed to record deals and [...]

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Indie musician Scotty Iseri created this video which gives us rilliant and hilarious commentary on Wired Magazine’s Chris Anderson‘s theories on why music should be free. From an indie musician’s point of view. Recommended. Related Reading: Trent Reznor backs Chris Anderson’s Theory of Free Chris Anderson: “There’s Nothing Really Wrong With The Music Industry” Malcolm [...]

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Exploring new business models again with Mr. Casey Shea. We just partnered up with our good friend Hans at 100000Fans.com to release a special collection of Casey Shea songs as an exclusive free download. We’re hoping this will continue spreading the good word about Casey’s music and expand the fan base for upcoming tours. The [...]

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Eskay just posted a video of Twista’s entry for Loud’s Favorites. Google Ads chose an interesting ad to feature over this video. No shots though…right Sergei and Larry?

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Family Records‘ very own Pearl and the Beard rehearse their song “Vessel” and “Oh, Death!” with a group of musicians in the lower lobby of the Gramercy Theater in New York City. Expertly filmed and edited by the amazing Eric M. Townsend.

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Via LavenderLines.

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Prevential recently had an interesting post on learning from your competition. To know what you can learn from the competition, you have to know who your competition is, and that’s not as simple as it seems. For example, if you specialize in 7″ screws, you would not want to compete in the 7″ screw market. [...]

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I’m going to go see the much anticipated (by me) 500 Days of Summer this Thursday. As I entered this into my Google calendar it somehow kept messing up and it took me three times of deleting and re-entering “500 Days of Summer 7pm” until I realized Google’s automatic time translator was entering the event [...]

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Wow, two Hip Hop related posts in a row, what is this? SitDownStandUp.com? This weekend Reggie and Dallas put on the already legendary Bring Your Own Blog BBQ in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Urkelbot took a bunch of footage, see below, and check out the recap and photos over Daily-Math.com.

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