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Few at the digital music company were exactly sure who was in charge following the December 26 firing of SpiralFrog CEO Robin Kent, said former employees. Kent's ouster created a chasm in the company's leadership, the former employees said, and soon after, 5 of SpiralFrog's 10 board directors and 5 company managers exited. Just four months before, SpiralFrog was a media darling. The company promised it would launch a Web site that provided free music by the end of 2006, covering the cost of those tunes through advertising sales. Media pundits loved the idea. The New York Times dubbed the company an iTunes challenger, despite the fact that the site hadn't even launched yet. The Guardian, a London newspaper, said Apple "took a knock" with SpiralFrog's emergence. Now, former executives and industry insiders describe a company reeling from a management shakeup, a missed launch date and a lukewarm reception by the major music labels to a business that supports free tunes by selling advertisements. Read more at CNet

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Lyrics skinny boy, all bones no lies your so miserable in the mornings will you will wait up for me? its sorted and I cant find my feet and you’ve got lips I could spend a day with. skinny boy, some where some prostitution. some desire some doubt some dance. they’re coming we see it’s through the back door, and there you are on the fence with those lips I could spend a day with. when its done ill drink champagne to the lonely lonely in me monday, tuesday so lonely wednesday, thursday only me friday, saturday only me here comes sunday…

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Slate is doing gavel to gavel coverage of the Libby trial and you can read the daily updates right HERE

Syrup16g - Reborn

Triceratops - Fly Away

Zazen Boys - Himitsu Girl's Top Secret

Straightener - Berseker Tune

The other day, Malicious Intent offered up new music coming out of the UK. Continuing that trend, Beatking offers up new music coming out of Japan that you definitely haven't heard anywhere else. Paul Collins, in his column jTunes today over at Slate notes that the ITunes music store allows you to sample other countries songs at the flip of a button, but purchasing is another matter--to get the real deal, you have to go to Youtube. Following his lead, here are The Straightener's with Killer Tune & Berseker Tune; The Zazen Boys - Himitsu Girl's Top Secret; Triceratops - Fly Away; and Syrup16g with Reborn. Enjoy. Straightener - Killer Tune

There are a number of promising albums due out this year, and as usual the music bloggers are right on top of things. 3Hive.com has posted "Elvis Cadillac", a track off of Rickie Lee Jone's forthcoming album, The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard. In an amusing column, The Passion of Weiss offers up a cut off of the new Arcade Fire - "Intervention." I Guess I'm Floating provides a sneak preview of 'Heretics', off of the new Andrew Bird Album, Armchair Apocrypha. Pitchfork's new music blog, ForkCast, offers up Bright Eye's Tourist Trap from his new EP. And Music For Kid's Who Can't Read Well is offering up two new cut's off of Patrick Wolf's new album, The Magic Position. All good stuff - check it out.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer interviews the embattled Vice-President. You can check it what they talked about right HERE

Rejected by his mother, raised by a loving aunt. That's the official John Lennon story. In fact,a new book by his own sister paints a very different picture. Read an excerpt from the novel

Film director Alejandro González Iñárritu meets with Nic Harcourt on Morning Becomes Electric to discuss and play the music that inspired the film, Babel. Listen or watch the show right here

You'll be happy to know that your friend John Kerry dropped out as a presidential candidate today - your repellant appears to be working

I think hip hop is losing its gloss - it will be less of an influence. Everybody is in to all kinds of genres today - pop music needs to reinvent itself by allowing the consumer to dictate trends, instead of record companies trying to cram stuff down our ears that no one wants to hear. And radio has basically become irrelevant. People listen to what they want I look at rock as different from pop. I think rock is becoming a fusion of all kinds of things - and I think we will continue to see that trend as well as a global infusion of various influences

Following a week’s worth of controversy about her behavior, Fox Broadcasting ordered clips of Paula Abdul swaying, appearing intoxicated, and answering questions on TV news programs in a nonsensical way taken down from YouTube this week. The move raises questions about where the line should be drawn between copyright infringement and outright censorship. It also shows how quickly an embarrassing piece of footage can become a viral sensation now that videos can be easily uploaded to the web. “What Fox runs the risk of is using copyright law as a form of censorship,” said Van Baker, an analyst at Gartner Media Service. Read more at Red Herring

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This may come in handy some day :) Electromechanical teenager repellant Howard Stapleton (Merthyr Tydfil, Wales) invented an electromechanical teenager repellant -- a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults. The "Mosquito" ultrasonic teenage deterrent aims to solve the problem of unwanted gatherings of youths and teenagers in shopping malls, around shops and anywhere else they are causing problems, claiming to be "the most effective tool in our fight against anti social behaviour". He later used that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but probably not to their teachers Source

Deeply disturbing, Google lawyer says A court in Dallas, Texas has found a website operator liable for copyright infringement because his site linked to an 'audio webcast' without permission. Observers have criticised the judge for failing to understand the internet. Robert Davis runs Supercrosslive.com and put direct links on his site to audio streams of motorcycle racing. Those streams were created, owned and hosted by SFX Motor Sports, which is behind some of the events covered. A preliminary injunction was granted on 12th December by Judge Sam Lindsay in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Judge Lindsay followed that ruling with a summary judgment for SFX on 9th January, leaving only damages to be determined at trial, on the same day that Davis filed an appeal against the December ruling. Read More

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Hunt's last book fingered LBJ: Former CIA Man Latest To Connect LBJ To JFK Assassination Testimony in upcoming book echoes claims of Brown, McClellan in fingering Johnson as key conspirator A former CIA agent has gone public with his conviction that former President Lyndon Baines Johnson was directly connected to the JFK assassination and its cover-up, echoing the claims of others close to LBJ at the time who have also blown the whistle on Johnson's complicity in the murder. E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent who organized the Watergate break-in, earning him the name "plumber" states in his book, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate & Beyond, due out in April, that "LBJ had the money and the connections to manipulate the scenario in Dallas and is on record as having convinced JFK to make the appearance in the first place." Source Note: Also published in NY Daily News