World Music

Hey, before Summer's over, let's head on back over to the drive-in threatre one more time!!! First things first, got to get some refreshments, and to get you in the mood, here's the opening instrumental from the perennial 1967 drive-in fave, "Catalina Caper" done up right by those "Rhythm of the Rain" guys, The Cascades! "Hot Dog!" "And they said the word!" All filler and some kind of meat rolled up into a tube, and served up au naturale! Just shows to go you how resilient the human body really can be! Fill it up with onions, ketchup, mustard, and relish, and wrap it up like a baby's butt! That hot dog on the left looks like it has teeth!! Voilà! Get yourself a soda pop to wash it down, and hope the movie is boring enough that your best girl will want to pick the onions out of your teeth with her tongue!! Meanwhile, your kid brother and his psycho best pal are getting their bellies full before the movie gets going! Hopefully this...

Samsung: Digital Music Biz Is Korean Company's Next Target For Growth By Miyoung Kim September 26, 2012 From Reuters/Huffington Post Samsung Electronics , which has vaulted the value chain on the strength of its hardware, will go out and buy mobile content providers, a senior executive told Reuters, to compete with Apple, Google and Amazon.com in a global digital music market worth nearly $9 billion. Apple's potential launch of an online streaming music service is prompting rivals to counter the iPod maker, which pioneered and still leads the digital music market. Success in today's mobile market means integrating products to seamlessly connect hardware and software. In May, Samsung bought online music service mSpot and has built its own Music Hub service to compete against Android's Music Player, Apple's iTunes and Amazon's Cloud Player. Kang says Samsung is ready to do more deals . Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/samsung-digital-music_n_191...

It's Friday wif' Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We gots a fairly rare flick from Ivan Tors who was trying to capitalize on the UFO scare going on in the good old US at the time, poster sez it shows color footage kept 'top secret' until now! Ivan Tors also produced THE MAGNETIC MONSTER, RIDERS TO THE STARS, GOG, SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE, THE AQUANAUTS and FLIPPER. Eegah!! made a fun lil' soundclip for our approval, soooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the atomic trap door, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's the audio for... UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS! Tom Towers was hired to give authenticity to this semi-documentary, he was the Aviation Editor for the LA Examiner... The US Dept. of War, the Pentagram! Flying saucers are everywhere in the headlines and on the air waves... I was stationed at Fort Lewis in '68 and woke up to Mt. Rainier's majesty every morning, but, never saw any UFOs! Fake UFO photos were a big fad, even Joe...

Did You Know Steve Jobs Hated the Sound of the iPod? He Liked Vinyl. By Brad Kava Sept. 25, 2012 From Santa Cruz Patch Jobs, like many audiophiles, including Neil Young, was a vinyl guy. To hear the full flavor and depth of music, he believed, the old way was best. ... Yet, he changed the music business and popularized a method of listening that is convenient, but not necessarily the best sounding. Read More: http://santacruz.patch.com/ articles/did-you-know-steve- jobs-hated-the-sound-of-the- ipod-he-liked-vinyl#

Business Matters: If Apple is Peaking, What Digital Services Are Next? By Glenn Peoples Sept. 25, 2012 From Billboard.biz "Though Apple will remain a highly profitable company for years to come, I would be surprised if it ever gives us another product as transformative as the iPhone or the iPad," Nocera wrote last week in an op-ed titled "Has Apple Peaked?" ... Without another iPhone, iPad or iPod, Apple will not have the next innovative product that transforms the digital music marketplace. The question then becomes who will step in and take from Apple its place at the top of the digital music heap? And how long will it take? Or will the digital music marketplace languish without Apple's leadership? Read More: http://www.billboard.biz/ bbbiz/industry/digital-and- mobile/business-matters-if- apple-is-peaking-what- 1007958352.story

MySpace Trying to Bring Sexy Back with New Design and Functionality By Natt Garun September 25, 2012 From Digital Trends Since Facebook’s inception, Myspace has long become abandoned and forgotten by teens, college  students , and adults alike — except for those who are trying to promote their music. Oh, yes, music. This is exactly what Myspace has left going for it, and it’s the focus of what the once-reigning social network aims to rebrand itself under according to this teaser video released yesterday of a Pinterest-meets-Windows-8- Metro-UI new design. Read More: http://www.digitaltrends.com/ social-media/myspace-trying- to-bring-sexyback-with-new- design-and-functionality/# ixzz27WBBaYl3

Music in the digital age From Phys.org Northeastern University news office asked Patrik Wik­ström, a newly appointed asso­ciate pro­fessor of music in the Col­lege of Arts, Media and Design, to weigh in on the changing face of music in today's dig­ital age: " Music lis­tening and dis­covery have always been social activ­i­ties, but social media ampli­fies these aspects. Social media strengthens the rela­tion­ship within a group of fans as well as between the artist and their fans. Artists no longer merely com­pose and/​or per­form songs to an audi­ence, they create a plat­form that allows their fans to meet and chat about the issues they con­sider to be rel­e­vant. Artists that are able to cul­ti­vate a tight and loyal fan­base via social media may be able to create a sus­tain­able busi­ness based on their craft without being part of the main­stream music industry and without signing a record label con­tract. It is far more valu­able to have a small but loyal fan­base that is ...

Digitalmusic.org launches music API directory By  Clyde Smith From Hypebot The application programming interface or API is becoming an increasingly important tool for web and mobile services that want to share data, content or capabilities to extend their presence or who want access in order to create new services. For example, all those Spotify apps you're seeing are powered by Spotify's API.  digitalmusic.org  recently launched a Music API Directory designed to facilitate discovery of such APIs for use by developers large and small. Read More: http://www.hypebot.com/ hypebot/2012/09/ digitalmusicorg-launches- music-api-directory.html  

"Q & A with TMC's President" is a new feature on this blog where we ask questions to Donna Ross-Jones, TMC's founder and president, about current topics swirling around the digital music industry. Jones is an expert in publishing and the management of music IP, from repurposing to administration to monetization. She has a history of developing and implementing solutions in the ever-changing world of music in entertainment and technology.   Q:  A recent CNET article on a new music startup called Fuzz begins , "The entrepreneur taking a crack at a digital music startup must either be super determined, completely crazy, or a both. The chances of legal run-ins with the labels are high. And even when you play by the rules, the rights payments are so steep that making a profitable business is all but impossible."  How has Transition Music Corporation, a successful music startup, managed to thrive in the business for so long when so many others have failed?  A:...

Tonight's feature was originally titled "Too Hot To Handle," but by the time it got to the shores of America, it had already been renamed as the much more insipidly stupid "Playgirl After Dark" which as far as the movie is concerned, actually has no meaning at all! Okay, I feel kinda ripped off! As you can plainly see, "Too Hot To Handle" was originally released in glorious colour! Now down here in The Dungeon, we love black and white flicks as much, or more than anybody, but if it was in colour to begin with, it sure would have been nice to see it that way, but I guess it has something to do with getting it played on the TV before any colour broadcasts existed!! A year earlier the undisputed #1 blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe was in a comedy entitled "Some Like It Hot!" Just let me know if you think it's some kind of odd coincidence that "Too Hot To Handle" was released the following year!!! The weirdest thing is that this is ...