1 day ago by Slouch Sixpack

Click below to stream this episode in your browser: Click to download to your computer Aleheads, rejoice… Brother Barley is back. There’s some good-natured ribbing, some back-and-forth, and we dissect the week’s beer news including: PAY TO POUR: The craft beer industry reacts to payola claims agains ...

12 days ago by Brandon

Ruth released their new 7 song ep titled “Payola” on January 31st. The album is available digitally wherever fine music is sold.

32 days ago by Everett True

The following is lifted from Andrew McMillen’s National Affairs article in the January 2012 edition of Australian Rolling Stone: What happens when your band wins the musical equivalent of the lottery, the triple j Unearthed slot to open the main stage of Splendour In The Grass? In 2011, the competit ...

39 days ago by Josh Constine

昨日（米国時間1/2）、われわれは GoogleがChromeを紹介するビデオ中でブロガーに金を払ってChromeサイトにリンクを張らせた疑いがあることを報じた。Google自身の有料リンク禁止規則に違反する明らかな例が少なくとも一つは確認された。ブログの執筆者がChromeのダウンロード・ページに直接リンクを張っていたが、その後この記事は本人によって削除された。 私はさっそくChromeプロモーション・キャンペーンの広告代理店、 Unruly Mediaを取材した。ファウンダー、CEOのScott Buttonによれば事情はこうだという。「われわれはブロガーに対して広告主のサイトにリンクを張 ...

56 days ago by Tim Lennox

I'm a fan of On The Media, a weekly Public Radio program that critiques the industry I've made my living in for a lot of years. This week's show included a segment on payola...the process by which individuals on TV are paid to promote certain items without any disclosure to the viewers. At one point ...

58 days ago by David Flaherty

In happier times: Pancho and Jay (pic courtesy of Jim's Loire) Jay Miller is out at Wine Advocate. Claiming innocence in a payola scandal that has rifled through the rolling hills of Spain and the wine community as a whole, Mr. Miller has stepped down from his role as editor of Spain, South America, ...

81 days ago by Phil Allely Wrestling News & Rumours

SO:NI ROCKS! A NOISY NIGHT IN NOVEMBER - PAY*OLA, Trucker Diablo, High Output, The Unprotected The Empire Music Hall, Belfast, November 17th 2011. By Phil Allely If you ever get the chance to visit it you’ll see why Belfast’s Empire Music Hall is the perfect venue for a rock band to perform in. The ...

100 days ago by WR3A's Robin Ingenthron

Poster Child, Toxic E-waste At the California Sustainability Directors conference last summer, I was pinch hitting as a representative of R2 - Responsible Recyclers standards for "e-waste" recycling. I was hastily invited by someone as a counterweight to what was originally a purely E-Stewards prese ...

110 days ago by nate

SAME SONG (EXCERPT) INSIDE THE PAYOLA, POWER AND CORRUPTION IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY BY PAUL PORTER Do you know Karen Kline? I do. And so do a lot of people in the music industry. She used to be a really good friend of mine. For a minute, I was in love with her, even though I knew the relationship coul ...

121 days ago by blerd

Television viewers voted Scotty McCreery as the 10th American Idol, and those same viewers likely contributed to the teenager’s debut at the top of Billboard’s album charts this week. Clear As Day starts off at pole position with a fairly impressive 197,000 units sold. It’s the biggest first week sa ...