The News Review:

- Droids Attack descends upon South by Southwest
- AL Music Launches New Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Music Site NoiseCreep
- Rant for music retailers

Droids Attack descends upon South by Southwest
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Do you have a favorite game you play in the car on the road betweengigs?Yeah we play iPod roulette. I’ve got my iPod on shuffle and I’vegot some songs by Michael McDonald Lionel Richie and bands likethat. So we’ll be listening to some good metal music — someSabbath some Motorhead — and then all of a sudden MichaelMcDonald comes on.

AL Music Launches New Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Music Site NoiseCreep
Business Wire (press release)
com providing artist and venue touring information. The newly launched site accessible from the AL Music main page provides fans with a singular online destination for metal and rock band news music and video content as well as original editorial content in an easily accessible blog format. The site will also serve as a launching pad for new artists and groups to develop a fanbase that is passionate about the genre. Advertising for the site will be sold through AL’s Platform-A services. The launch of NoiseCreep follows a successful year for AL Music which ranked as the most popular online music destination in total unique visitors for all of 2008 and is currently the only site with over 22 million monthly unique visitors. * In 2007 AL Music launched Spinner.
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Rant for music retailers
Examiner.com
As the announcement for Virgin Megastore to pull out of the US after a decade where most music retailers of its type have gone the way of the dinosaur those that still want a CD either make an online order download or face the humiliation of a music section in a Wal-Mart type place without proper categorizing of music. ften at my civil post a. a the night job I can’t stand but bills have to be paid in a recession- trying to re-segregate the genres. I am one for the separatism of music.