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Infographic: Why Music On The Radio Is Terrible

The answer is media consolidation. This infographic (via Frugaldad.com) should explain a thing or two. What you should take away: support your local music scene, generate buzz about your favorite bands via word-of-mouth. It's okay to enjoy the fruits of those 232 media executives who control what you see and hear (surprisingly some of that...

Two Charts: Why I Don't Listen To The Doors & Mr. Mojo Risin (The Graphical Explanation)

I made this chart in about thirty seconds as a response to a tweet a few weeks ago. Finally getting around to sharing it on the site. Here's the tweet:@TweeterReprise: The further away from high school you get, the less you listen to The Doors My response:Here's an example. I found this...

Infographic: Girls - What Kind and Where According To Beach Boys / Brian Wilson

Looks like a bit more research is needed into the young and female population of some Southwest and Mountain states to complete this map infographic from the iloveyoubrianwilson tumblr. For the time being, the remaining classifications will be most helpful for the band and crew as the Beach Boys tour the country for their 50th...

Fight For Your Right To Party: The Infographic

Craig Robinson makes some absolutely beautiful baseball related infographics at Flip Flop Flyball. He put that skill to work over the past weekend to create this elegant map of the words in Beastie Boys' "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)".Every dot represents one word of the song. The colors, of course, are...

Venn Diagram: Beastie Boys Sabotage

This is a classic classic found at Joe Biden Fan Club. You can also add a circle for things that you are going to kick root down.

Infographic: How Smart Phones Have Changed Concerts & Music Festivals

Sometimes these "sponsored" infographics can be annoying, but this one provides a view interesting tidbits illuminating how today's cellphones has transformed the festival experience. What it wants to communicate is that these festivals are peak experiences that we want to share, prolong, and relive and this technology affords us this for better or for worse....

Charts: Buying Music In 2011 (Support Your Local Music Retailer)

Yes, music sales have plummeted and with the rise of the iTunes store and streaming options, it takes noble efforts like Record Store Day, and its many unique releases, to inspire folks to get out of the house and actually purchase some music -- an act that was a near ritual for music lovers just 20...

Sports Business Daily Pays Tribute To Levon Helm

Here's a screen cap from their home page on 4/20/12, the day after we lost the great Levon Helm. Check out the headlines along the column to the right of the main photo. Brilliant!  

Chart - The Band: Phases, Members, Albums Through The Years

Wikipedia has added this timeline for one of the all time great acts.

SOPA Round 2: What is CISPA and Why Do Facebook & Microsoft Support It?

Thanks to high profile protests by facebook and wikipedia, the great SOPA debate ignited passions towards Congress like few other issues. Maybe the public's true thoughts of online piracy were a motivator, but it didn't hurt that movers and shakers behind the Internet spawned Congress to go back to the drawing board.What emerged is...