My best friend is a female, she'll most likely read this post, and either call or text me about it. LoL. So, before that happens...
I disagree.
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So...the Wednesday before Christmas, Sony unveiled a digital music subscription service featuring a catalog of 6 million songs from Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, EMI Music and Sony Music Entertainment.
At the moment, the service is only available in the U.K. and Ireland, but Sony reports plans to expand it to the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy and Spain coming 2011. Coined "Music Unlimited," the service costs 3.99 euros a month for the basic version, which streams ad-free radio much like Pandora. A premium version that lets listeners play songs on demand costs 9.99 euros a month.
Subscribers can listen via Sony devices that are connected to the Internet, including the PlayStation 3 game console, select Blu-ray players, Vaio computers and smart phones. While the service can work on cellphones that use Google’s Android operating system, it is currently not compatible with Apple’s iPhones. Y'all mad?
Sony will face some SERIOUS competition, both in Europe and the U.S., Spotify, a music streaming service based in Sweden, had been wildly popular with Europeans, largely because its ad-supported version is free.99.
In the U.S., a number of services currently jockey for a dwindling number of subscribers willing to pay for music streaming. The vast majority of Pandora’s popular Internet radio listeners pay nothing for the service. The number of paying subscribers to on-demand digital music services such as eMusic, Rhapsody and MOG are said to be fewer than 2 million in the U.S., the world’s largest music market.
For Sony, the music service is the Japanese company’s latest attempt to marry its entertainment assets, including Sony Pictures and Sony Music, with its consumer electronics business.
In April 2010, the company launched a streaming video rental service that can be accessed through its Internet-connected Bravia TVs and select Blu-ray players. It has been offering the video service on its PlayStation 3 game consoles for more than a year.
The National Baskbetball Association fined Celtics center Shaquille O'Neal $35,000 Monday (December 27th, 2010) for public comments criticizing the officiating following Boston's 86-78 Christmas Day loss to the Magic in Orlando.
O'Neal fouled out in only 13 minutes of playing time and sounded off after the game!
"I guess they came out to see No. 26 today," O'Neal said, referring to official No. 26, Bob Delaney. "... He was a great player out there today.
"They [fans] paid all that money to watch No. 26 play. If I was a fan, I would be pissed. You pay all that money for good seats, you have two of the best guys in the [NBA] sitting on the bench, out of the game. That is what happens when you have control freaks out there."
Orlando's Dwight Howard picked up five fouls, including a technical, while being held to six points in 33 minutes.
"It's just two good guys going out there hard," O'Neal said of his battle with Howard. "I just wish we had the opportunity to play."
O'Neal scored his only two points seconds before fouling out in the fourth quarter. His 13 minutes were by far the fewest in any of the 63 games in which he's fouled out in his career.
Marie was found dead by her daughter after apparently dying in her sleep, manager Mike Gardner said.
While no cause of death has been released, the singer's publicist Lynn Jeter said that Marie suffered a grand mal seizure -- a neurological event, marked by loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions, according to the Mayo Clinic -- a month ago.
Growing up with hoop dreams, Michael Wilson was one of millions of kids who fantasized about making it to the NBA. At an early age, Wilson noticed that hoops dreams can be deflated not due to lack of skill but environmental traps, society and cultural obstacles. Wanting to be a voice to the mayhem, things changed when he was accepted to Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He found himself there, not on the court, but in the studio.
“Myke Kewl ” was born.
Having to move from home to home within the Philadelphia area, Wilson witnessed the diverse attitudes of the streets and used these attitudes to mold into something bigger and better; “Myke Kewl” the Hip-Hop artist.
"I wanted to inform but creatively not so people would automatically present me as a Nas or Common. More moderate and current sound is what took time to find, I knew what I wanted to say but I was working for years how I wanted to say it...Myke Kewl is something that is natural...People always told me I was too cool or this or that and I didn't know if they were being sarcastic or genuine and I honestly didn't care anymore. I came to the conclusion that cool can be whatever you want it to be. It's your choice, It's just an opinion."
This became his new identity. Even though Myke Kewl began recording his rhymes on his uncle's karaoke machine at the tender age of seven, it was at the age of 21 when he finally discovered the message that he wanted to deliver. With inspirations such as Lupe Fiasco, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, The Fray and a bunch of others, there is no horizon that Myke Kewl is not afraid to reach.
"I have too many inspirations and places where my music is influenced by life, school, my neighborhood, people I encounter, girls, dream crushers, doubters everything...Like I seriously want to educate but at the same time understand I am a human, not a saint...I want to have fun, I like to have fun. I laugh. I play...ok I laugh. I play a lot, but also being creative with the approach, originality is a big thing with me. I try to stay away from anecdotes and other formulas because I feel I am as unique as they come"
With his mixtape titled "The Berf of Kewl" soon to be released, we will experience those same horizons as well...only now from Myke Kewl's point of view.
"This mixtape is only the beginning...(he laughs) I just hope the world appreciates it."
Sources are rolling in, reporting the news that R&B sensation, legend, and icon, Teena Marie has past away. WDAS's own, and close friend, Patti Jackson "confirmed" her death earlier today.
This untimely event is so fresh, details have yet to be confirmed. Keep it locked.
After two interceptions on Rookie Cleveland Browns QB, Colt McCoy, and clinching a playoff birth with the Ravens, Reed sat too close to the team personnel heater on the sideline. See it for yourself...
Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner, who just so happens to be 84 years of age, announced his engagement to 24-year-old girlfriend Crystal Harris! Yup, 24, as in born in 1986.
Harris was the December 2009 Playmate of the Month.
Hefner, made the "situation" public on Christmas Day via twitter.
"When I gave Crystal the ring, she burst into tears," the twice-divorced publishing mogul wrote. "This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory."
Hugh Hef finalized his divorce from his second wife, former Playboy model Kimberly Conrad, earlier this year.
Way to go Hef. Shit, way to go Crystal! You are now partially entitled to the fruits of the Playboy Empire labor.
