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MUSIC MONDAY
from Muckrack daily: Don Van Vliet, or Captain Beefheart, died at the weekend aged 69. Tim Riley of NPR retweets Billy Bragg’s link to Beefheart’s “10 Commandments of Guitar Playing: Your guitar is a divining rod”. Rolling Stone’s coverage is here and the first part of a BBC documentary here.
OK Go’s Damien Kulash writes in the WSJ today about “The New Rock Star Paradigm” or how to make it without a record label.
Jon Healey at the LA Times blogs about Cricket’s new Muve Music, a bundled subscription service for mobile music downloads. He writes: “The most notable aspect of Muve may be that it’s designed from scratch as a service for phones, optimized for a mobile network. It’s not an add-on to a PC-based service.”
Jim Fusili at the Wall Street Journal links to Paste Magazine’s “20 Best New Bands of 2010”.
And, just in time, Gigwise has put together a collection of the Worst Christmas Album Covers Ever.(via @popdose) to go with their Worst Album Covers of 2010 from last week…
