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The digital music service on Monday said it laid off its president, Jon Irwin, along with 15 percent of its staff.

Plot Point Productions propose un montage vidéo de scènes de chute issues de plus de 60 films sur une musique de John Murphy tiré du film 28 jours plus tard. De Matrix, à Vanilla Sky en passant par DIe Hard ou King Kong, les références sont variées. A découvrir en images et en vidéo dans la suite.

Brian P. McAndrews, a technology and digital advertising executive, succeeds Joseph J. Kennedy, who announced his resignation in March.

The service could pose a threat to Pandora Media, which dominates Internet radio.

A string of drug-related deaths at big music festivals has highlighted the risks not only to fans, but to the businesses looking to profit from the craze.

It’s been a decade since the oddly shaped Walt Disney Concert Hall opened in Downtown Los Angeles, and the venue’s resident house band, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is celebrating offering you a chance to see the world through their eyes. That is: To stand in the middle of an orchestra without being able to move anything but your head. It’s like a nightmare where you want to run, but your legs just won’t work for whatever reason.

Created in partnership with Hello Design, a new “360-experience” video puts you right in front of the director and standing in the first row of musicians, stuck without being able to speak as they play menacing music at you without directly acknowledging you. It’s, in a word, enthralling. In three words, it’s creepily enthralling.

The site also encourages you to become a concert master, choosing performances throughout the LA Philharmonic’s season based on some really strange questions. Classical musicians sure know how to party, huh?

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To its line of hybrid grand and upright pianos, Yamaha adds the NU1 — more compact and less expensive, but with real piano sound, not digital noise.

Réalisé et animé par Dirk Rauscher, le vidéoclip de Mabert Rocel pour la chanson The Temple, issue de son album Small Hours, est très réussi. Mêlant animations et plans fixes sur la chanteuse allemande, c’est un voyage entre rêve et réalité qui nous est proposé. Une très belle réalisation à découvrir.

Here’s an update on the James Harden/Stephen Curry commercial-pretending-to-be-a-music-video we covered last week: while Harden may have uncorked his vocal cords first, Curry is back with an unsavory r&b diss track that has more blues than rhythm. Foot Locker and BBDO New York seem to be having some fun with this one, right down to the purposefully low-budget video effects. I’m not sure whose voice is worse, but both of them are really, really bad singers, and that makes this campaign all the better. A little tea with honey for next time, guys? Anyway, grab some earplugs and listen up.

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You most likely have never heard of the music-sharing app Pow Wow, but creator Greg Housset believes in his product so much that he left his agency job as an account exec at what was then EuroRSCG to launch it. Pow Wow is a collaborative app that lets users create joint playlists on different devices through Spotify (the lone catch is that one person needs to have a paid Spotify account for the app to work).

Pow Wow’s first ad hit YouTube three days ago and gives consumers a straightforward overview. It’s easy to see the appeal of such a program: multiple people using their smartphones to build a playlist without needing to debate or pass around an iPod. Ideal for bar mitzvahs, weddings, sweet 16s, block parties, barbecues, dance-offs, rap battles, etc.

Over at Mashable, Todd Wasserman points out that an annoying relative could co-opt the playlist and play “Afternoon Delight” 17 times in a row (his example), but we’ll give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to extreme idiocy. Playlist responsibly.

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