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Rock Out with PixieTea and Her Amazing iPhone Band [VIDEO]

Remember the Stanford iPhone Orchestra and their kick-ass musical stylings? Well, there’s a new smartphone virtuoso on the scene by the name of PixieTea who could become more synonymous with the word “telephone” than Lady Gaga herself. The Chinese artist created a video and song — mostly on an iPhone 3GS — that has been going viral over in China. PixieTea’s video has become a hit on Youku (basically the Chinese YouTube), racking up 1,670,109 hits and counting since it was posted back in December. Gizmodo brought the vid to the attention of the U.S.
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Lady Gaga and Rock Band Caught in a Bad Romance

The first Lady Gaga song pack for the Rock Band music video game is coming next week. It will include the songs “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” “Monster” and “Poker Face.” You’ll be able to buy each song for $2 or all of them for $6.99. Yes, “Paparazzi” and “LoveGame” are missing from the list, but this might be just the beginning of Rock Band ’s Gaga content. Gaga is a hit in geek culture.
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Daytrotter Launches New Paid Downloads Option for Bands [EXCLUSIVE]

Daytrotter is celebrating its fourth anniversary promoting music discovery of emerging bands with a new business model. Now bands who sign on for one of Daytrotter’s unique daily live sessions have an opportunity to sell high-quality digital recordings for a revenue split using a new in-house payment system that additionally gives artists real-time access to sales figures and statistics. “We started thinking about how we could help these bands more and make more things happen for them,” Daytrotter Founder Sean Moeller told us. The site will adopt a freemium model in order to preserve access to the Daytrotter service fans know and love; users will still be able to download 128 Kbps MP3s or stream audio from Daytrotter sessions for free, but high-quality Apple lossless versions of the sessions will be available for purchase
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YouTube Darlings OK Go Say Bye-Bye to EMI

Welcome to Act III of the OK Go/EMI drama: According to EMI, the pop band has decided to leave the record company and form their own independent label, Paracadute Recordings, under which they will take over control of their third album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky . Here is the full statement from EMI: “OK Go, the band whose inventive internet campaigns and self-directed music videos have set records and won the band a GRAMMY® Award, and EMI Music’s Capitol Records, the band’s label since 2001, have agreed to part ways by mutual agreement. OK Go has formed their own independent label, Paracadute Recordings.
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Music Planet waterproof speaker ball makes bath time more melodic

Remember that waterproof Bluetooth speaker that you picked up last summer after none other than Billy Corgan endorsed it ? Here's comes round two. Available exclusively in the Land of the Rising Sun ( surprised ?), the Music Planet speaker ball is IPX7-certified to shrug off water damage for up to 30 minutes at a depth of one meter, and it's designed so that the speaker itself sits just above the water line. Internally, you'll find an FM radio tuner, an SD / SDHC card slot for loading up MP3 files, a USB socket (good luck with that non-waterproof thumb drive) and an alarm clock. You know, in case you fall asleep underneath two feet of soapy water.
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Free Music Monday: 10 Free Tracks

Hey there, music fans! Thanks for joining us for Free Music Monday this week, where we offer you 10 free downloads for your eclectic listening pleasure. If you haven’t been with us before, we’re collating free and legal tracks in honor of the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter. We happily accept your submissions for Free Music Monday as well, and if you’re interested you can find information about how to submit your tracks (or music from artists you represent) at the end of this post. Now without further ado, let’s roll some tracks! 1
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Enjoy Soothing Full Screen Ambience at MoodTurn [Relaxation]

Not many workspaces sit on the edge of a babbling brook in an animal sanctuary, but if you'd like to pretend yours does, the visual and audio ambience of webapp MoodTurn can help. Last week we shared MoodStream with you, a mashup of short and mixed together music tracks, images, and video, all sorted by your mood. Thanks to a suggestion by Lifehacker reader Rexem , we have another neat ambient mood site to share with you. MoodTurn—sometimes labeled TurnMood.com in its interface—is, like MoodStream, a mashup of visual and audio elements. It's radically more simply though, with no sliders or selection wheels in sight
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Enjoy Soothing Full Screen Ambiance at MoodTurn [Relaxation]

Not many workspaces sit on the edge of a babbling brook in an animal sanctuary, but if you'd like to pretend yours does, the visual and audio ambiance of webapp MoodTurn can help. Last week we shared MoodStream with you, a mashup of short and mixed together music tracks, images, and video, all sorted by your mood. Thanks to a suggestion by Lifehacker reader Rexem , we have another neat ambient mood site to share with you. MoodTurn—sometimes labeled TurnMood.com in its interface—is, like MoodStream, a mashup of visual and audio elements. It's radically more simple though, with no sliders or selection wheels in sight.
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Social Media Dorks Get an Anthem [VIDEO]

Remember the Pantless Knights of “ I’m on a Mac ” fame? Well, they’re back today with a new vid titled “ The New Dork ,” a parody of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s “Empire State of Mind” that pays tribute to social media adherents and hipsters alike. With shoutouts to Zuckerberg, Mashable, Valleywag, Gizmodo, LinkedIn , Twitter and tech nerds camped out in their mothers’ basements, this video is all about using your social media cache to attain new levels of irony-spun hipness. According to these tech-savvy dudes, Internet denizens of today are raking in the cash and models whilst rocking skinny jeans and “steady Jerkin’” (it’s a dance craze, guys — get your mind outta the gutter).
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Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week

The Twittersphere is in love with Justin Bieber . Once again the young pop star tops our top 10 Twitter trends chart, even in spite of the devastating Chile earthquake that also peaked this week as a topic of Twitter conversations. The fresh data, which comes courtesy of the folks at What The Trend , highlights the most popular topics on Twitter. Hashtag memes and games have been omitted from the chart given the topical nature of the list
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