Matthew Perpetua and Fluxblog make the NY Times, fame and fortune is his

its grown on me somewhat ..

.. she is now back in NYC after a mad few weeks promotion over in uk

even i even managed a few minutes on the phone with her was scared at first .. but had a riot of fun actually ..

onwards! m.e/ireallylovemusic

Digable Planets/"Blowout Comb" – Now that the jazz-influenced rap trio has reunited and will headline Chicago's Lollapalooza festival, it's time to dust off this 1994 album, which, in retrospect, was waaaay ahead of its time. The Planets got out of beatnik mode and started messing with some harder beats, and the results are funkier and a little angrier than the group's debut, Reachin'.

www.fluxblog.org – At this MP3 blog, art begets art. Cartoonist John Cei Douglas interprets Spoon's "The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine" in graphic short story form. "Valentine," by the way, is one of several sweeping, epic rock songs on the Austin band's latest, Gimme Fiction, due Tuesday.

Lil' Jon and the East Side Boyz, "Crunk Juice" (expanded edition) – The bonus CD features two notable mixes of "What U Gon' Do:" a version with reggaeton stars Daddy Yankee and Pitbull and one with dancehall rappers Elephant Man and Lady Saw. Also, you get Lil' Jon's remix of Daddy Yankee's "Gasolina," which is, in case you didn't know, the party jam of the year.

Crayton Harrison

Bring on the NY Times.

Congrats.

more obscure than what you find on commercial radio.

what an odd thing to say

Why Lindsay Buckingham, why now? Did I miss an explanation post?

Over the past few months I have become fascinated by Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac. I had always liked their music but for whatever reason this stuff has become a lot more interesting and resonant for me recently...Also, I figured that there were probably a significant number of readers who either were not very aware of Lindsey’s music or hadn’t given it much thought.

Considering who likely reads Fluxblog in 2011, this is probably true.

Cuz Corny is the new Cool, fool!
― Nancy Boy (scottkundla), Monday, October 18, 2004
^still true

Because Buckingham sounded prescient in 2010

Temporary glitch or the latest RIAA target?

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Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.

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matt fluxblog is down repeat fluxblog is down

rip blogs

Aww...say it isn't so.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7124/7153155127_9f2bdc0eb4.jpg

Flux = Sad

It woulda had that exact text if I'd spent more than five minutes doctoring the original illustration.

I was worried Fluxblog would wind up being a casualty of this current blog assault. RIP blogs, indeed. At least Matthew has other gigs now.

dunno, seemed sort of reckless for him to post those ridiculously large "year overview" things recently. literally thousands of songs, all (or at least most) commercially available.

Yeah, that was a lot of what worried me. They were awesome, but still, probably not the best time to do it.

rip blogs

― markers, Monday, May 7, 2012 4:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sadly, this is turning out to be pretty true. Third hand information, but I heard through a friend of a friend this weekend that he got a cease and desist email for posting album covers on his blog.

tbh this kind of thing has looked like an inevitability for at the very least 4-5 years now. i tried to stop posting anything that might make my sites a target way back then, i just hope they're only really paying attention to things that were posted recently but i don't know if that's naive to think.

i didn't even know ned had a hardman period

hardned

Twenty years on the Net'll do that to a person.

web life tattooed on the (ever increasing) belly

you will see perpetua change

rip big man

Google gives me this:

Fluxblog
www.fluxblog.org/
1 day ago – BUY Chloramphenicol ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION.

I think that rather than being shut down for sharing mp3s he might have been shut down by the pharma hack. Giving him a tweet... maybe it helps.

Back up now, so maybe not an RIAA thing.

No, remember that MBV group of blogs that Ryan Catbird put together? Well, the hosting went out and Ryan was incommunicado.

http://mbvmusic.com/

whoa eternal tapestry have a new album out!?

but srsly, what was the deal with that site? why did they call it mbv? ~mysteries of the internet~

many blogs (five)

u_u

hahaha

i predict someone else will take up the mantle

http://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000005955585-0y887t-crop.jpg?3508e02

tbh this kind of thing has looked like an inevitability for at the very least 4-5 years now. i tried to stop posting anything that might make my sites a target way back then, i just hope they're only really paying attention to things that were posted recently but i don't know if that's naive to think.

― some dude, Monday, May 7, 2012 2:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

heh i just got a DMCA complaint notification on my blogger account. of course it doesn't say WHAT post they took down, but it's probably a really old one from years ago when i sporadically posted mp3s. anyone have an idea how at risk i am for getting the whole thing taken down or if i should just start deleting any old expired mp3 link just to be safe, or is this all guesswork right now?

just flush your laptop down the toilet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q

http://evolver.fm/2012/04/04/legendary-music-blogger-sean-adams-on-slow-death-of-mp3-blogging/
this actually seems pretty dumb to me. o god, what will happen if everyone can be an mp3 blogger.

megalol @ use of "slow"

omg this thing that was around for less than a decade is no longer a thing!

the slow death of fax machines

lo, we will look back on the golden age of mp3 blogging, where people downloaded just one or two tracks and then forgot about them.

the slow death of the Segway

I've been enjoying some of his recent genre-based Spotify playlists: http://www.fluxblog.org/2020/08/oops-all-playlists/

Interesting