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Piracy funds arguments and apathy

The UK’s creative industries and artists have been discussing file-sharing in public recently. Ever since business secretary Lord Mandelson outlined his plan to bring in legislation similar to the Eircom/IRMA agreement here to boot off file-sharers after three warnings, musicians have been writing letters and blog posts about the issue. The problem though is that [...]

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Win weekend camping tickets to Oxegen – week 2

Every week until Oxegen arrives (see counter to the right there for exact days), Day & Night have a pairs of weekend camping tickets to the festival that is bringing you such acts as Blur, Kings of Leon, The Killers, The Script, Bloc Party, Lily Allen, Nine Inch Nails, Crystal Castles and a gazillion more. [...]

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Star secrets should remain that

What is is with public figures sharing way too much of their life with us lately? The internet has always been a good medium for ephemeral nuggets of information but since when did it become acceptable to air your professional grievances or personal experiences in public for everybody to read? These days pop stars are [...]

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Band of Blogs: Lily Allen, Jaydiohead, Animal Collective, Peter Bjorn and John

Lily Allen remix German DJ Christian Vorbau makes some subtle changes to Allen’s recent single ‘The Fear’ which vastly improves on the original while making it a little bit more dancefloor friendly to boot. Listen at Pretty Much Amazing. Pretty Much Amazing Jaydiohead A mashup album featuring Jay-Z over Radiohead is much much better than [...]

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