“You can’t steal a gift. Bird gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it” – Dizzy Gillespie
Hey all, Casey from Flora & Fauna here. A strong personal interest of mine is the positive and negative flow between creativity, copyright, and influence. I’ve excerpted portions from a wonderful essay [...]

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Do you ever feel like iTunes exists not for the user, but for the record and Apple executives? Well you’d be right, and I hope you aren’t surprised.
iTunes will most likely continue it’s Store integration until users get fed up, or they start using alternatives like Songbird.

Here are five reasons why Songbird is better:

You can [...]

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Hey all, this is Adam from Flora & Fauna.  We are so excited to be working with AmazingWow! We’ll be posting more in the future with news and fun shitz. For now, here are some pictures from a show last week at Wesleyan University. Hopefully we’ll see YOU at a show in the future.

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We posted this over at my blog, onethirtybpm, when the episode was originally released, but I’ve recently viewed it again. It’s really sparked some new ideas I have for Amazing Wow.
Anyway, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor took a series of questions voted on by readers in a 40-minute video interview by the popular news [...]

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Famous TV personality, president promoter, Kindle kisser, car giver-awayer, and book lover* Oprah Winfrey now has a Twitter account to call her own. Here is her first tweet:
HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY .
Here is another one:
good nite tweets. first big day in twitterland. gotta get some [...]

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The RIAA’s internet webpage, piratically my homepage, directed me to the IFPI’s (International Federation for the Phonographic Industry) annual report on digital music. Low expectations segued into mild outrage as I read. I’m not disputing their statistics about how many people download music a year. But what pisses the shit out of me is the [...]

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- Kyle

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I got caught using pirated software which means I can’t open any of the project files I’ve been working on for the past couple months. It’s all electronic/sound grid shit so it’d be really hard to redo it from scratch and since I don’t feel like I lost anything too great I’m just going to [...]

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Flora and Fauna, the Crooked Rain meets Willie Nelson trio, has just released their first album right here on Amazing Wow. The new album is sincere and I think sounds nothing like what we’ve got on the roster so far. You’ve all already heard my deal the eclecticism of AW music.
We’re fabulously excited to have [...]

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Back in the day when I was rocking The Hippodrome, Andy Fenstermaker was syndicating my features on Fense Post. The site has been revamped and looks great. And really, let’s give some credit here. Keeping up an mp3 blog these days is hard! But Fense does it with consistency and aplomb. I’ve admired the site [...]

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