Month: July 2012

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How to Create a Successful Kickstarter Campaign

For many years, I’ve held some doubts about Kickstarter and crowd sourcing in general. For some artists, I thought it was a great fit for the culture of the band. However, for my personal band, I had some more reservations. I thought it could make the band look desperate or be a huge embarrassment if we ended up being…


How To Make Your Facebook Timeline POP!

There is a fabulous feature that will help you highlight the things that happen throughout your life an career that you would like to post onto your Facebook Page. This is a phenomenal tool for going back in time and recording important things in the history of your personal life, your band life, or anything…


Amazon Cloud Goes Down Friday Night, Taking Netflix, Instagram And Pinterest With It

As of 11:21 PM EST Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia went down, due to severe thunder storms in the area. The Washington Post reports torrential rains, “scary winds,” lightning and massive power outages in the D.C. area. Amazon EC2 runs many major websites and services. Netflix, Instagram, and Pinterest have all been taken out of service during the outage. Half…


FABULOUS NEWS: MSG BUYS FORUM

James Dolan’s Madison Square Garden Co. has closed a deal to buy the Fabulous Forum for $23.5 million and plans to soon begin a $50 million renovation of the 45-year-old arena, the L.A. Times reported. The former home of the Lakers and Kings opened in 1967 and for decades was L.A.’s number-one concert venue. The…


The First Ever Global Hip-Hop Debate

Via Guardian Last night, 1,600 or so people descended on the Barbican in London for what was hailed as “the first-ever global debate on hip-hop”. Arranged by Google and Intelligence Squared – bespoke organisers of online conferences who recently staged something similar on the War on Drugs – it was like a cross between Question…


Pharrell Honored at ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards

Pharrell was honored with the Golden Note Award for his extraordinary contributions to music at the 25th Annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards in Beverly Hills on Friday. Following congratulatory messages from his collaborators including No Doubt, Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, and Pusha T, the humble hitmaker accepted the award with his parents, protégée Leah…


Youngest In Charge: Quentin Cuff

(Featured L-R: Mac Miller, Karla “HustleGRL” Moy, Quentin Cuff) Words by Priya Pansuria At only 21 years old, Quentin “Q” Cuff who started off as a free-lance writer for hip-hop and wrote for Jenesis magazine and the Pittsburgh Post, has accomplished a lot for someone his age. As a member of the Most Dope crew,…