Instead of having to click on random people’s Muxtape’s, a developer has created a streamlined search engine called Muxfind, which allows users to seek out artists or songs on Muxtape’s site. [via gawker]

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Weezer’s send up of the last decade’s Internet meme’s is entertaining… That is all.

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Tim Kasher’s evolving mainstay, Cursive, has been playing a smattering of live shows recently to work out the kinks on some new material in preparation for entering the studio to record the follow-up to 2006’s under-appreciated Happy Hollow. The band just finished a live session at Daytrotter, playing a slow, loose, and tortured version of […]

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From Get Weird Turn Pro, comes word of a Yazoo reunion. At this point in the Reunion Continuum, nothing surprises me. There’s a new EP, a Tour, and even a (Quelle Surprise!) remix of Situation to mark the occasion. Head on over to Get Weird to grab the remix. See you upstairs, at Eric’s. Only […]

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Word comes from a Drawer B commenter that Crystal Castles “borrowed” a lot of their sounds from the Chiptune community (Lo-bat in particular) and apparently also appropriated the image of Madonna with a black eye from an uncredited artist. “Crystal Castles has been getting a lot press using the image of getting sounds nobody did […]

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For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the 1890s. To assist their efforts, they’ve created a spreadsheet of 37,000 songs and 112 columns of raw data, including each song’s duration, […]

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From the album ‘Knowle West Boy’ due in September on these fair shores. There’s a remix contest, too. Everybody’s got a remix contest these days, don’t they. Crowdsourcing the remix is so 2008. (via Wired)

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