Posts Tagged ‘Listeners’

2009 Countdown: Best Cover Songs

On Sunday, we counted down what KEXP listeners said were the Best Cover Songs ever. hands down. You picked Nirvana’s rendition of the classic bluegrass tune, “Where Did You Sleep Last Night,” and while Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” may have climbed to number 2 on  Billboard’s top 100 in 2003, Clem Snide’s version scored spot #41 on our countdown of best covers of ALL time. Here are they are: Rank Cover Artist Cover Song Original Artist 60 Pavement The Killing Moon

Free Music Monday: Lita Ford, Skratch Bastid, and More

Howdy, music fans! It’s yet another Free Music Monday for you. Previous listeners know that we’re celebrating the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter by giving you some free tunes to download or stream. Each week we’ll offer up 10 MP3s, single streams, albums or playlists for your listening pleasure. If you’re an artist, band, label or promoter with a track you’d like to offer our readers during a future edition of Music Monday just drop us a line at barb AT mashable DOT com . And now, on w


September 7, 2009 11:18amby Tim Bradshaw

It is one of the most hotly anticipated apps yet to appear on the iPhone.From today, Spotify – the online music application credited by some for finally luring listeners away from online piracy – can sit alongside iTunes on Apple’s mobile, as well as on phones running Google’s Android software.On the PC, Spotify allows its users to listen to any of its millions of tracks for free, supported by advertising. On a mobile, users must upgrade to its premium subscription, which costs £9.99 a month or


Ypulse Essentials: Dell Debuts Nick Notebook, 40 Years After Woodstock, Alloy’s ‘Private’ Cracks Web TV Code?

Dell unveils Nickelodeon PC (branded by a green slime design and pre-programmed with entertainment and educational content including a desktop icon promoting kids' virtual world Whyville promoting kids' virtual world Whyville) (Reuters) (Virtual World News) - 40 years after Woodstock (Pew finds a gentler generation gap, especially when it comes to music. Maybe because classic rock has stayed hip with younger listeners? And USA Today runs the stats by twentysomethings and millennial expe


“Afrika Hot!” – Review Of dead prez & DJ Green Lantern’s Pulse Of The People

While most MCs dabble and experiment with a range of styles and angles, dead prez stay as revolutionary as they want to be. No shuckin’ and jivin’, just raw, contentious Hip-Hop. Take it or leave it, fuck you. It’s philosophy like this which has kept M-1 & stic.man among the frontrunners of edutaining Hip-Hop for the past decade. Their latest rally finds the red, black and Green Lantern doing what they do best: challenging listeners to think for themselves as they tap into the Pulse Of The


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