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The Echo Nest looks at how movie and music tastes overlap

Source: Los Angeles Times

The Somerville, Mass.-based music data mining company thinks it can predict your movie tastes based on the music you listen to. Brian Whitman, co-founder and chief technology officer of Echo Nest, and his team have been looking into their company’s stoc ...
Full article at: Los Angeles Times More like this 20 hours ago, 9:06am CDT

Graded on a Curve: Black Sabbath, 13

Source: The Vinyl District

With 13, three-fourths of the original Black Sabbath has reunited under the guidance of career-savior-as-producer Rick Rubin. The result isn’t a masterpiece, but it is the best record of new material to bear the Black Sabbath name in ...
Full article at: The Vinyl District More like this 22 hours ago, 7:15am CDT

Black Sabbath makes its own luck with '13'

Source: Los Angeles Times

Not that they hadn't tried. In 2001, singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward convened in England to work on new music. And nothing came of it. For years afterward, Osbourne openly fretted in interviews ...
Full article at: Los Angeles Times More like this 3 days ago, 10:01am CDT

Rep. Trent Franks fundraises off his statement dismissing rape victims

Source: Daily Kos

See, the problem here is that there's a fundamental miscommunication between the media and the fundamentalists. The Crowd That Rules Our Discourse thinks of things like Trent Frank's blanket dismissal of rape and incest victims as a gaffe, an oops mo ...
Full article at: Daily Kos More like this 4 days ago, 1:51pm CDT

Big Brother Is Watching, and the Music Warned Us

Source: Baeble

The ever-unfolding NSA story is turning guys like Huxley and Orwell into 20th century prophets. It shouldn't be much of a surprise that Big Brother really is watching us (and apparently China too), considering they st ...
Full article at: Baeble More like this 4 days ago, 12:08pm CDT

Mississippi Republicans: Sequestration for thee, but not me

Source: Daily Kos

HuffPost's Sam Stein flags the curious sight of Mississippi Republicans continuing to complain about the sequester—at least the parts of the sequester that impact the constituents that they care about: Midwa ...
Full article at: Daily Kos More like this 4 days ago, 9:43am CDT

Meet the Music (and listen to it)

Source: North Texas Daily

From acoustic to indie rock to rap, some of Denton and Dallas’ most talked about artists told us what keeps them together and what inspires them. Meet them here in our Q ...
Full article at: North Texas Daily More like this 4 days ago, 9:28am CDT

Black Sabbath Emerges From the Dark With New Album

Source: ABC News

Ozzy Osbourne and the members of Black Sabbath worked hard to create a dark aura around their band in the late 1960s, laying down a proto-metal blueprint for a legion of groups to follow. As the band's original lin ...
Full article at: ABC News More like this 4 days ago, 6:56am CDT

BLACK SABBATH's IOMMI, BUTLER Talk About 'God Is Dead?' Song (Video)

Source: Blabbermouth

NME TV has posted a new video interview with BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler in which they discuss the writing of the band's new song "God Is Dead?". Check it out below. "God Is Dead?" is the debu ...
Full article at: Blabbermouth More like this 5 days ago, 2:32am CDT

Black Sabbath reunion lacks group’s previous punch - Fri, 14 Jun 2013 PST

Source: The Spokesman

Hey, it’s not easy being Beelzebub’s sidekick. Just ask Ozzy Osbourne. Although he will always be best known for his work in Black Sabbath, he hasn’t recorded a new studio album with fellow founding members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler ...
Full article at: The Spokesman More like this 5 days ago, 2:19am CDT