So Maura (for Sound of the City) interviews a stripper named Bubbles Burujas, who turns out to have a lot to say (perhaps unsurprisingly) about the music she dances to:

BB: When I have to come up with rock sets and I can’t stomach, well, that chart you showed me, I go with the White Stripes, [...]

“The underground echo chamber of the Web has become indispensable for developing early buzz, but to reach a large audience, there’s nothing more powerful than a major label’s radio and retail promotion machine.
‘Having the viral, online grassroots discovery is the single most powerful way to expose a consumer to your brand,’ said Mr. Young’s manager, [...]

“In retrospect, one of the last meeting points outside of ILM or whatever for a like-minded community of music crits. Everyone I know who does this read that site regularly, though most of them probably did not finish the posts about Lady Gaga.”
Zach Baron, in a back-and-forth with Rob Harvilla yesterday, in honor of the [...]

“The most striking thing to me about this isn’t: Downloading possibly leads to sales. But: Over the course of the past decade, a lot of people just stopped giving a shit about music altogether. Yet the survey, its results (from what I’ve seen) and the discussions of it don’t seem to consider this at all.”
This [...]

My Tinted Windows game has caught on! (At least in Idolator’s comment section). People are approaching the boy-band timeframe liberally (some NKOTB in there), but that’s OK. I particularly like the all-British one, and Maura’s picks.

As I’m sitting here watching my Interpersonal Comm. students take an exam today (update: something which I’m still doing), my friend Maura pops up in my IM window with a question. She was wondering as to the validity of this particular study (warning: not in English), and more specifically, this arstechnica article citing it. [...]