When was the last time I posted a “Wrap Up”? I can’t remember…
- Google shuts down music blogs, Internet deems the action “musicblogocide” (guardian.co.uk)
- MTV/Viacom, Real Networks spins off Rhapsody (multichannel.com)
- MTV no longer known as “Music Television,” now known as “Crappy Reality Television” (rollingstone.com)
- Yet another requiem for MySpace (allthingsd.com)
- Great op-ed on Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger (nytimes.com)
- Excellent blog PoisonousParagraphs.com goes dark (poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com)
- Akon’s Konvict label signs first African rap artist (hiphopdx.com)
- Beastie Boys’ MCA celebrates success of film distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories (laweekly.com)
- Travis Barker and A-Trak form new dance-rap-rock project (mtv.com)
- Pitchfork.com editor proclaims greatness of Pitchfork.com (thedailyswarm.com)
- Public Enemy’s proposed “fan-funded” album fails to ignite interest (billboard.biz)
- Drake warns of shady concert promoters who rip off gullible Drake fans (allhiphop.com)
- Donnis (pictured above with video hoe) signs with Atlantic Records (hiphopdx.com)
- Jay-Z brags that he’s a FOB (Friend of Barack) (mtv.com)
- Johnson & Johnson (a.k.a. Blu & Mainframe) launch new project, New World Color (okayplayer.com)
I woke up in a pine box: J-Live’s Do the Knowledge Vol. 1 (Late Pass) (jlive.bandcamp.com), Donwill’s Laura’s Tape (donwill.bandcamp.com), Exponential Records’ Kadohadacho (antipop.net), Reks’ In Between The Lines (mediafire.com), DJ Drama & B.O.B.’s May 25th (usershare.net), Joell Ortiz’ Defying the Predictable (onsmash.com), DJ Rhettmatic and Bobo from Cypress Hill’s Bobo Meets Rhettmatic (2dopeboyz.com)
