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Below is an email I received last night as well from TV Girl and it made me rather sad and frustrated. [yvynyl just happened to post it]. This is why the "old" music industry is a dying breed. If you haven't listened to TV Girl yet I highly highly suggest you do so . via yvynyl : Hello (It's Me). This is Trung and Brad from TV Girl . Today we were unpleasantly surprised to find that the Warner Music Group started making good on their promise to remove [...]

Hello (It's Me). This is Trung and Brad from TV Girl . Today we were unpleasantly surprised to find that the Warner Music Group started making good on their promise to remove our music from the web. Several blogs reached out to us after receiving takedown notices regarding our music. We noticed that you posted our music, so we thought we would reach out to give you a heads up and give our two cents. Just to clarify, TV Girl had nothing to do with the takedown notice. We have no affiliation with [...]

The State of Music Blogging: 2011 I was awoken this morning to a text message from my sister asking if I had read the latest article on SFCritic . After a series of tweets the other day implying that their future in music blogging is improbable, I had a gut feeling that something big was coming. Big and dark. Sure enough, a big and dark article was posted. I suggest you read it on their site , but in case [...]

Toronto's The State of Things may not have an album under their belts as a group, but individually they bring plenty of experience to the table. The band, which includes members of Die Mannequin, are all veterans of the scene. Collectively, they describe their sound as: "where Killing Joke meets The Killers; where The Cure blends with Mew; where the Cult cross Editors." You be the judge with

Elizabeth Cook @ AMA's from Lake Fever performing a track from her forth coming album Elizabeth Cook from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo . Alejandro Escovedo interview from WUNC The Low Anthem [...]

• The State of Things - Alejandro Escovedo

Like most reverends, not all of Jon McClure's prophecies panned out quite right. Last August the Reverend and the Makers frontman announced his rather early retirement from the music industry, only to recant a few weeks later. The British music press, as salty and bipolar as your adolescent sister when she discovered "Britpop," fell pretty hard on McClure. Poor guy. In 2007 his banally titled debut, The State of Things , had reached number five on the UK charts, but all of a sudden everyone was taking the piss. Well, everyone in his mother country, that is. In America, no one really gave [...]

Movies about movie-making tend to be either hilariously vitriolic ( The Player ) or poignant ( Lost In La Mancha ): unfortunately, The State Of Things is neither. Wim Wenders' re-released 1982 film follows the fortunes of maverick German film director Friedrich Munro (Patrick Bauchau), as he travels from Portugal to LA in search of his missing producer, after Munro's post-apocalyptic B-Movie remake runs out of film. The fact that the first nine and a half minutes is made up of Munro's sepia-toned sci-fi nonsense, before the film proper begins, will try the patience of [...]