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Latest Updates on Black Hawk Mines Music Move over 'Song of Summer'-the 'Song of Fall' is here Not that it's any big surprise but, as of Sept. 6, it's official: Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" is the song of the summer of 2012. Billboard tracked overall performances on the Hot 100 since June 9, and the infectious pop song landed at No. 1, ahead of Maroon 5′s "Payphone" and Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to know." And the summer-song charting doesn't stop there. The definitive International Source also provides a top-1o summer songs list that goes back to 1985 and a top 30 songs about the season. Part of the reason is that summer is tied to the history of rock music, says Larry Starr, a professor of music history at the University of Washington and co-author of the book American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MTV. "It became much more of a thing with the advent of rock and roll and in the 1950s and the development of an enormous teen audience for record buying, for whom the summer was a vacation period," he says. "With that target of the market, you get all sorts of records that are addressed to school kids." Starr points to the 1958 Eddie Cochran classic "Summertime Blues"-which happens to be the first song, chronologically, on that Billboard top-30 of the genre-as one of the earliest examples of such a song: music about summer vacation and how you want to spend it. But at this point it's very possible that there's no special something that says "summer" about a song. Starr conjectures that the category of beach-specific music-about the beach and for the beach, preferably by people on or near or named after the beach-may be responsible for the upbeat nature of the ideal summer song but notes that the sub-genre doesn't really exist anymore. Now that summer music is something set apart, the lyrics didn't have to mention the season by name. "Call Me Maybe" takes place on a "h

The former leading social network site Myspace announced in Monday that it's getting a resurgence in popularity due to their introduction of a new online music player.   Over a million new users have registered at myspace.com in the previous month, averaging 40,000 accounts activated daily. Its new owners attribute this positive response mainly to Myspace's integration with Twitter and Facebook.   The ousted social network star has transformed into an online community for music enthusiasts and appears to be growing into a platform that is ready to co-exist with Twitter and Facebook.   Instead of competing with Facebook, it is now going head to head with online music services like Rdio, Jango, Pandora and Spotify. Myspace is now claiming they have the biggest catalog of tracks online with 42 million songs.   MySpace was purchased by News Corp for USD 580 million in July 2005. But according to Rupert Murdoch himself, the chief executive of News Corp, their purchase has been a big mistake and that it was mismanaged in every way possible.   So it was not at all surprising for them to sell it in June 2011 to Specific Media for only USD 35 million, a mere 6% of their original valuation.   The new owners, Chris and Tim Vanderhook, along with artist Justin Timberlake invested and reinvented Myspace. They managed to shift the site's focus from social networking into an entertainment portal.   Since its launch of the new music player 2 months ago, there has been an increase in registrations and a significant rise in the amount of site traffic.   Myspace appears to have a number of assets in its possession including a huge song library, large traffic and brand recognition that if the firm can sustain its new-found upward trend, the new owners may certainly have gotten a bargain.   This new MySpace player boasts of unlimited and free music streaming from unsigned and established artists. They also offer customized radio mode and an easy integration with Facebook.

AMAZINE MUSIC ARTICLE - BLACK HAWK MINES MUSIC - The former leading social network site Myspace announced in Monday that it's getting a resurgence in popularity due to their introduction of a new online music player. Over a million new users have registered at myspace.com in the previous month, averaging 40,000 accounts activated daily. Its new owners attribute this positive response mainly to Myspace's integration with Twitter and Facebook. The ousted social network star has transformed into an online community for music enthusiasts and appears to be growing into a platform that is ready to co-exist with Twitter and Facebook. Instead of competing with Facebook, it is now going head to head with online music services like Rdio, Jango, Pandora and Spotify. Myspace is now claiming they have the biggest catalog of tracks online with 42 million songs. MySpace was purchased by News Corp for USD 580 million in July 2005. But according to Rupert Murdoch himself, the chief executive of News Corp, their purchase has been a big mistake and that it was mismanaged in every way possible. So it was not at all surprising for them to sell it in June 2011 to Specific Media for only USD 35 million, a mere 6% of their original valuation. The new owners, Chris and Tim Vanderhook, along with artist Justin Timberlake invested and reinvented Myspace. They managed to shift the site's focus from social networking into an entertainment portal. Since its launch of the new music player 2 months ago, there has been an increase in registrations and a significant rise in the amount of site traffic. Myspace appears to have a number of assets in its possession including a huge song library, large traffic and brand recognition that if the firm can sustain its new-found upward trend, the new owners may certainly have gotten a bargain. This new MySpace player boasts of unlimited and free music streaming from unsigned and established artists. They also offer customized radio mode