Amy Poehler Feels Urge to Merge (E! Online via Yahoo! News)
Think of it as mixtapes made by famous people.
Is Opentape a jab at the RIAA? [Copyfight] (Valleywag)
Following the shutdown of Muxtape, a site for posting online mixtapes, in a dispute with the music industry, someone has launched Opentape.fm, where you can download code to easily create your own... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Build a 'Playlist,' share the music (USA Today)
I welcome all ways to build online mixtapes, and the latest happens to coincide with an upcoming Michael Cera movie. If you go to http://sproutbuilder.com/sony, you'll be able to create a widget for Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, the upcoming...
[Pass The Mic] I Made You a Tape (Jackson Free Press)
Rob Gordon, the quintessential über music snob in Nick Hornby’s “High Fidelity,” sums it up best: “You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don’t wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules.”
Amy Poehler Feels Urge to Merge (E! Online)
Think of it as mix tapes made by famous people. The North Carolina-based indie record label Merge is launching a limited-edition series of CDs curated by famous folks like Saturday Night...
Fabolous Wants Swizz Beatz, Ryan Leslie To Go Loso's Way; Chamillionaire Gets Raw, In 'Mixtape Monday' (MTV Asia)
Artist: Chamillionaire Representing: Houston Mixtape: Mixtape Messiah 4 411: King Koopa isn't going to stop with just three. Chamillionaire's Mixtape Messiah ...
Launch Pad takes off (Boston Herald)
Boston club goers and hip-hop heads first got to know DJ On&On through his eagerness to spin anywhere from grimy underground spots to plush yuppie hangouts. In...
Fabolous Wants Swizz Beatz, Ryan Leslie To Go Loso's Way ; Chamillionaire Gets Raw, In Mixtape Monday (MTV Music Television)
Fabolous said he wants Ryan Leslie and Swizz Beatz to produce Loso's Way in time for a Thanksgiving release.
Say it song (it is all in the mix) (Pensacola News Journal)
"Guess what I'm listening to?"
SOHH Exclusive: Slim Thug Weighs In On Mike Jones/Trae Beef, “I Hope This Sh*t Ends” (SOHH.com)
With a new album with his crew the Boss Hogg Outlawz set to hit stores, SOHH caught up with Houston rapper Slim Thug to talk about his move from Interscope to Koch and to get his opinion of the recent altercation between Mike Jones and Trae tha Truth at the Ozone Awards.