Check out our full album stream of Chairlift's incredibly infectious and ethereally entrancing brand new album Something available tomorrow January 24 only on ARTISTdirect.com right here! Listen now! Let us know what you think below! â€"The ARTISTdirect.com Staff01.23.12 Did you dig it? Read more below
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Daughtry presale password for show in city near you
The latest Daughtry presale password is now on our site: This is your best chance to get tickets for Daughtry before the general public!!! 
Here are the Daughtry show details:
Daughtry
Pre-sale begins Wednesday 01/25 at 6pm Local Standard Time for the following dates:
3/20/12 -Buffalo, NY -Shea’s Performing Arts Center
3/21/12 Reading, PA â€" Reading Eagle Theater at Sovereign Center
3/24/12 Toronto, ON â€" Massey Hall
3/27/12 Atlanta, GA â€" Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center
3/28/12 Little Rock, AR â€" Robinson Music Hall
3/30/12 Nashville, TN â€" Ryman Auditorium
3/31/12 Louisville, KY â€" Louisville Palace Theater
4/2/12 Columbus, OH â€" Franklins Veterans Memorial Auditorium
4/3/12 Cincinnati, OH â€" Cincinnati Music Hall
4/4/12 Pittsburgh, PA â€" Benedum Center
4/7/12 Greensboro, NC â€" Greensboro Coliseum
4/9/12 Charlotte, NC â€" Ovens Auditorium
4/11/12 Clearwater, FL â€" Ruth Eckerd Hall
4/14/12 Boca Raton, FL â€" Mizner Amphitheatre
4/15/12 Jacksonville, FL â€" Moran Theatre
4/17/12 Columbia, SC â€" The Township Auditorum
4/18/12 Richmond, VA â€" Landmark Theatre
4/20/12 West Long Branch, NJ â€" The MAC at Monmouth University
4/21/12 Syracuse, NY â€" Landmark Theatre
4/23/12 Lowell, MA â€" Lowell Memorial Auditorium
4/25/12 Newark, NJ â€" New Jersey Performing Arts Center
4/29/12 Albany, NY â€" Palace Performing Arts Center
5/1/12 New York, NY â€" Hammerstein Ballroom
Onsale to General Public
Starts: Sat, 01/28/12 10:00 AM
Presales
Starts: Wed, 01/25/12 06:00 PM
You can use the following pre-sale passwords and information to buy tickets:
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Britta Bibbo's point of view is bizarre: Mosh Pit (mosh pit) :)
Laugh along at the lighter side of mosh pit in this mosh pit photo by Britta Bibbo, titled Mosh Pit. 
If you're interested in the Britta Bibbo's website and a few of their other mosh pit photos since lots of people keep asking!
Do you think this picture of mosh pit was worthy of being posted?
If you're interested in the Britta Bibbo's website and a few of their other mosh pit photos since lots of people keep asking! Do you think this picture of mosh pit was worthy of being posted?
Thrash knuckles - funny mosh pit picture of the month! ;)
As soon as I saw this funny image I felt compelled to share with you 
Here is the original because everyone always ends up wanting it.
I'm curious to read some thoughts on this pic, or about mosh pit in general!
Here is the original because everyone always ends up wanting it. I'm curious to read some thoughts on this pic, or about mosh pit in general!
mosh pit is a joke for the lighter side of mosh pit
As soon as I saw this funny photo I felt compelled to share with you 
Click for the source only since mosh pit pictures aren't the simplest to track down.
I'm curious to read your opinions regarding this pic, or about mosh pit in general.
Click for the source only since mosh pit pictures aren't the simplest to track down. I'm curious to read your opinions regarding this pic, or about mosh pit in general.
Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam - Allstate Arena - discount code
The newest Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam discount code is now ready to use: While this limited time discount opportunity exists, you have the chance to buy Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam event tickets and pocket the savings!!! 
If you don't order your tickets to Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam's event in Rosemont while this discount is in place, you might not be able to get them before they are all gone.
Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam show info:
You can use the following discount voucher codes and information to purchase tickets:
If you don't order your tickets to Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam's event in Rosemont while this discount is in place, you might not be able to get them before they are all gone.Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam show info:
Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam
Allstate Arena
Rosemont, IL
Sun, Feb 12, 2012 07:30 PM
Onsale to General Public
Start: Fri, 02/11/11 11:59 PM CST
Me + 3 Promotional Offer
Special Offers on 4 Tickets!
Start: Mon, 01/23/12 10:00 AM CST
End: Wed, 02/08/12 10:00 PM CST
You can use the following discount voucher codes and information to purchase tickets:
Here's a hint: When searching for event tickets to a show, please remember that Best Available is not always the best choice... you may discover that "the best" is too expensive or not what you expected. I recommend selecting a price level or a seating area to narrow your search.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Sundays insanity Vinyl records make the world go around again
Vinyl records make the world go around again
By Sebastian Smith (AFP) â€" 20 hours agoÂ
NEW YORK â€" In the brave new world of MP3 players, compact discs are dying, cassettes are Stone Age, and old-fashioned vinyl records... they're back!
It might seem that nothing short of a wind-up gramophone could be more out of place today than the nostalgia-laden, crackly-sounding 33 and 45 RPM disc.
Yet in his Brooklyn, New York, factory, 40-year-old Thomas Bernich churns them out by the tens of thousands, feeding a vinyl revival that has record decks -- and cash tills -- spinning.
"It's my baby," Bernich said in his spartan office at Brooklynphono. "It's growing."
The small plant in a blue collar neighborhood hums with the sound of machines and spaghetti-like rows of pipes delivering ground-up vinyl to presses where the material reemerges as shiny albums etched with near-invisible, music-filled spirals.
Bernich started on a shoestring 10 years ago. Now he has four full-time employees and two part-time, manufacturing a quarter of a million discs a year, with plans to double capacity.
In an age of near-instant music downloads and entire libraries stored in gizmos the size of a cigarette lighter, the arcane process of making records defies convention.
But the market is vibrant.
Alan Bayer, who runs the online record store vinylrevinyl.com, said records refuse to go the way of the crumbling cassette tape or passe CD.
"The only music stores that have managed to stay in business in my area are ones that devote an important percentage of their stores to vinyl records," he said in an email from California.
Purists swear that music sounds better from records than from compressed digital files. Collectors love the hunt for rare, scratch-free recordings, not to mention the art-filled sleeves.
Young DJs, or turntablists, turn their parents' fusty old technology into the hippest of night-club tools, while bands looking to make a name for themselves commission records so that they can stand out in the sea of YouTube videos and downloads.
"We give the band a record, they make 300 records, then drive around the country for the summer playing and the records all get sold out of the back of the van," Bernich said. Other than helping to create a fan base, fresh bands with a shiny record often find the labels "take them very seriously."
Scott Neuman, president of ForeverVinyl.com, an appraisal service and dealer, said sales of newly minted records were for the first time overtaking those of pre-existing records.
Meanwhile, the pre-owned market, he said, "is being flooded" by people emptying out their basements in search of a quick buck.
Retailers will pay about 25 cents for a single, ordinary record or sleeve, then resell for between $1-$5, he said. But more sought-after editions quickly go for $100 or far more.
Neuman said he'd got $10,000 for a rare sleeve to the Rolling Stones' album "Street Fighting Man". The cover, depicting a policeman beating a man, had been withdrawn soon after release because of complaints. Although thousands were made, only a handful survive.
"You have people who mine for gold and if they get an ounce of gold after digging in dirt for days and days they're happy," he said. "It's like that."
Vinyl fans say there's also something in the physical attractiveness of the record and the ritual of using turntables that the MP3, like the CD, cannot match.
"It's personal. You get to spend more time with the music," said Jeff Ogiba, who opened Black Gold, a Brooklyn records store and coffee shop, 18 months ago.
"The last decade and a half has been an information age, so there are a lot of things that are intangible. People want to go out and have physically tangible things because now you press a button and a package comes to your door," Ogiba said.
Bernich says making records is not all fun. "It's very over-worked and underpaid," he said.
And he likens the manufacturing process, dependent on variables such as air temperature and inconsistent chemical components in the vinyl, to "a moving target, a shot in the dark".
But there is magic, too.
At Brooklynphono all of last year's production was made from recycled records -- mountains of Neil Young discs and their ilk pulled from musty old cupboards and shelves, then smashed, melted, and reborn as the very latest releases.
When there are sound quality problems, Bernich will exchange the great, heaving machines of his shop floor for a microscope through which he can examine the music-filled grooves for flaws.
A lifelong mechanic with the heart of an artist, Bernich says record-making makes his world go round.
"I'm in a passionate state of mind," he said.
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