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Infra Red Presents: Drums of Death EP (Ya Boy Instrumentals)

We’ve got a nice update for everybody today. Producer Infra Red is putting out an EP of his best beats for free! He’s been putting out an instrumental a week but we decided to bring you three at once for you beat junkies out there. If you’re an up and coming artist and want to [...]

Musical Video Games - Get Your Money

So in case you’ve missed it, Musical Video games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero are tearing up the Video Game charts. They’ve sold millions of copies across America and offer players the chance to purchase new songs.
In the past six months, EA has sold over 10 million songs for its game Rock Band. Motley [...]

iTunes to Sell 28% of all Music by 2012

We’ve discussed iTunes many times on the site. Its clear that digital distribution is the future of the music industry and the sooner West Coast artists embrace it the better. A new study out says that by 2012, iTunes will sell 28% of all music worldwide. Think about that for a second: 1 out of [...]

Street Album Round Up for April

So Dubcnn has been absolutely KILLING it lately with a series of free and high quality street albums for download. It’s almost been too much great music coming out. I’ve got a roundup below in case you may have missed some of them. These are all Untagged tapes too, so it’s free, high quality music. [...]

The Perfect Mixtape Release Schedule: Seven Steps to Success

I love Mixtapes. People bitch and complain about the tags that DJ’s put on them, but I could care less. They’re a great way for artists to get heard, get their music out to the people, and build a solid fan base.
I sometimes cringe when I see artists screw the pooch with their mixtape marketing [...]

iTunes Becomes Largest Music Retailer in US

We wrote about how West Coast artists need to embrace digital distribution earlier in the week and yesterday our point was proven by Apple. In a press release, Apple confirmed that it has:
• Sold over 4 billion songs since iTunes inception
• Sold more music than WalMart
• Is the largest Music retailer for Jan and Feb [...]