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Way Out West - Tuesday Maybe = https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tuesday-maybe/id1226686015

Native Advertising 101: cross promote Kanye West + Glastonbury Festival, write "news article" pitting asshole "performer (?)" vs rock fans / attendees. No mention of comments from event organizers or the artist being petitioned off the stage, be sure you have the dates and line up link in the article.  http://www.cbsnews.com/news/thousands-sign-petition-to-cancel-kanye-west-glastonbury-2015-performance/   When I read this article, it felt more like native advertisement for the Festival with a dab of promotion for Kanye West.  https://www.change.org/p/glastonbury-festival-cancel-kanye-west-s-headline-slot-and-get-a-rock-band   As of this writing 118,450 people (or bots) signed the petition but is this really the best use for change.org ? Does the performer care? Do the event organizers care? Why should we care?  I think Mr. West's music is garbage but should the event organizers go back on their plans (I'm sure a contract was signed at some point) opening the...

Spotify App I embraced digital media quickly, yep I was one of those guys who converted all of their music to digital and now I rarely purchase physical media. However I cannot get my head around streaming. I just feel that internet bandwidth and reliability are not there yet. My phone still gets No Service and EDGE for fuck's sake. iTunes Radio (in the Music App) So the quick response of streaming apologists would be to cache the songs (read: keep a local copy) and my response is that isn't that what I am doing now when I purchase a song, download the file, and sync it to my device?  I know I am in the minority tho, digital music sales are on the decline . Downcast (podcast app) For now I think streaming's strength is in music discovery. Still music discovery can be done via social media like twitter or facebook or my preferred way podcasts! 

♪ Thank You For The Music: 077 ♪ Apr 2014 : TY4TM: 077 ♪ Apr2014 I'm back with another episode of progressive and vocal house for your earholes. Turn it up!

I'd like to invite everyone to subscribe and listen to my free EDM (Electronic Dance Music) appreciation podcast. It's available as an enhanced podcast (meaning it has chapter titles and artwork) from iTunes. https://itunes.apple.com/ph/podcast/id449820575 If you don't use iTunes you can get the feed here http://feeds.feedburner.com/ty4tm1 If you like the podcast please share it with your friends and rate 5 stars on iTunes. Thank you. Follow  @TY4TM and like my page  check out the blog  for episode track-list and if you really like it help me out by donating

Wow... they weren't kidding ( Apple press release )!!! Music and Movies now available for the Philippines (PHL) iTunes store. I had lost all hope that we would ever get access to iTunes media so earlier this year I switched my account to the US iTunes store. Now you don't need to jump thru hoops like I did and stay with your Philippine account and have access to Music and Movies. TV shows are still absent. Music! Movies on the PHL store Movies on the US store Of course not everything is available but this is a huge step in the right direction.   NB: I have not tried purchasing/renting media with a Philippines iTunes account but do share your experience if you've tried it.