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Official Google Blog: Spot on
OK, I can finally blurt it out: JotSpot is now part of Google, and I couldn’t be more excited.

My Chemical Romance - Angels and Airwaves - Killers - Music - Report - New York Times
By saying they want to be important, groups like My Chemical Romance and The Killers are also saying they want to be popular.
Ghost Media: Getting Some Feeling Back: The Iceland Airwaves Edition
Well, so much for the daily blogs from […]

You ever get a really intense food craving? Like you start thinking about strawberry shortcake at about 11:50pm and you know you can’t go out and buy it this very moment, but you keep thinking and thinking about it? So you go to sleep straight away just so that when you wake up, you’ll be […]

the mass is secretly obsessed with nipple dream: Before You Wake Up: Iceland Airwaves with Patrick Watson and more…
It’s hard to believe that in the span of 30 days we released the Patrick Watson album, plunged into Pop Montreal, and then took off for Iceland Airwaves in Reykjavik, from whence I’ve just returned.

EMI gives rock star wannabes a new place to sing
EMI says it wants to streamline its talent-scouting process and reduce the cluttered inboxes of its employees by allowing pop-star wannabes to upload their publicity stills and mp3 samplers directly to Parlophone’s interface.

7:50 PM
Hiya everyone. So right now I’m sitting here at a table at Roseland Ballroom waiting for the Woodie Awards to start. There are eager fans lining the floor of the venue directly in front of me, and the artists tables are to my right. Tegan and Sara’s version of “Walking with a Ghost” is […]

Tonight I’m going to be liveblogging directly from Roseland Ballroom, location of MTVU’s Woodies Awards. The fun starts around 8pm. Here’s a preview of what I’ll be talking about:
CONFIRMED ATTENDEES:
Beck*
TV on the Radio*
Gym Class Heroes*
Imogen Heap*
Lupe Fiasco
Ghostface Killah
Lady Sovereign
30 Seconds to Mars
Angels & Airwaves
Feist
Plain White T’s
Cage
Atmosphere
Murs
The Academy Is
Gogol Bordello
The Subways
Nightmare of You
*Performing

Every year at the end of October, hundreds of journalists (around 600 this year) and thousands of international music lovers break out their heavy winter jackets, hats, and gloves and flood the city of Reykjavik, Iceland for the Iceland Airwaves music festival. Although Reykjavik is the capital city, the population hovers just under 200,000 people–which […]

Holla. I’m sitting right outside my gate at the airport in Iceland. FREE WIFI. A stewardess just rolled by on a Razor. This country is awesome. See you back in NYC.

Ok I’m still alive, but so so tired. I saw a freaking geysir today! I also saw this awesome band last night at NASA called Æla, and you should check them out. They sing in Icelandic, but they rock. I am falling asleep but I just wanted to say I’m still alive and kicking it. […]