Tag Archives: Music
Coldplay Served with Copyright Infringement
A day after winning seven Grammy nominations, the members of Coldplay were served with a copyright infringement lawsuit Thursday that claims they ripped off guitarist Joe Satriani to write one of their biggest hits, “Viva La Vida.” There’s no doubt that Coldplay ripped off Joe Satriani’s 2004 instrumental “If I Could Fly.” You be the [...]
Full StoryJoe Satriani Files Suit Against Coldplay
Rock guitarist Joe Satriani has sued British band Coldplay, accusing the Grammy-nominated stars of plagiarizing one of his songs. Satriani’s copyright infringement suit, filed on Thursday in Los Angeles federal court, claims the Coldplay song “Viva La Vida” incorporates “substantial original portions” of his 2004 instrumental “If I Could Fly.” The 52-year-old guitar virtuoso is [...]
Full StoryYouTube Vows for Less Sex
In the internet arena, sex sells and sex attracts the masses, but YouTube is going to change their image and reputation. There’s a more appealing “Tube” for men than the one we all know called YouTube.com. I will not keep you guessing on this one, but it’s called YouPorn. YouTube is offering up “YouTube Symphony [...]
Full StoryLed Zeppelin Releases Rare Bootleg Videos
One of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time “Led Zeppelin” is releasing a series of rare bootleg videos and 16mm concert films onto the Internet. The band, which has been in the rumor spotlight about a possible reunion tour, is starting to post new concert clips onto its official YouTube channel. Some [...]
Full StoryFirst Jukebox Appeared On This Day
In 1889, the first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon. The immediate ancestor of the jukebox, called the “Coin-slot phonograph”, was the first medium of sound recording encountered by the general public, before mass produced home audio equipment became common. These machines were mass produced back in 1889, using [...]
Full StoryLed Zeppelin Flashback
I was bored yesterday and decided to hook up my spare PC to my big screen LCD TV to stream Netflix movies. I had everything set up within an hour and decided to browse through the “Watch Now” movies. I came across a classic movie from Led Zeppelin called “The Song Remains the Same”. I [...]
Full StoryMix Turtle – The Music Search Engine
TechJaws.com searches the internet looking for the tastiest sites that offer up some of the coolest stuff and we found a good one in Mix Turtle. You can play your favorite songs by searching by artist or song title. It serves up the best of what you like when you are in the mood to [...]
Full StoryGuitar Hero to Offer Jimi Hendrix
With rival “Rock Band 2″ now on store shelves, rival franchise “Guitar Hero” is pumping up the volume on several fronts. Most recently, Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash let it slip to Rolling Stone that “Guitar Hero” is working on a Jimi Hendrix special edition akin to what it did with Aerosmith. Metallica is another band [...]
Full StoryBest Buy Scoops Up Napster
Best Buy is moving into a position to take a piece of the market share for music downloads. The electronics retail giant’s bid Monday to acquire online music provider Napster would continue Best Buy’s quest for mobile dominance by boosting its mobile music offering, while attempting to rescue the struggling Napster in the process. Minneapolis-based [...]
Full StoryHi Tech Music Not Of This Earth
There are many great rockers and guitar virtuosos, but there’s one man that is far more superior and dubbed “Not Of This Earth”. Joe Satriani is a technological guitar virtuoso that is awe inspiring. The sounds that are generated from his collection of Ibanez guitars are far beyond our galaxy and imagination. I was introduced [...]
Full StoryJimmy Page Closes Olympics with Whole Lotta Love
After choosing the song for the closing ceremony on Sunday they decided that some of the lyrics would have to be omitted or re-written amid concerns that they could be offensive, go figure. The song was chosen as the centerpiece of an eight-minute segment at the event in Beijing at which the Olympic flag will [...]
Full StoryBe a Roadie for The Who
It will cost you $20,000 so far and bids are still coming in as I write this blog. I don’t know about you, but to work as a Roadie and pay $20,000 seems a bit lopsided to me. I think they should pay me for this kind of labor and trust me it’s no easy [...]
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