Imitation Can Be The Most Serious Form Of Fuckery...

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Imitation is the sincerest form of fuckery. If yall don't mind we could use a favor from the masses. We found a fucktard on Amazon that wants to act as if they created our products and sell them at a higher price. Please contact Amazon and help to have them removed or find out their address where I can personally show up and collect payment the old fashioned way...

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Please go report this douchebag to Amazon that likes to take credit for other folks work.

Here is the real photo of our work being heisted by a fake seller on Amazon.

J.B Beverley Conquers Amazon On The Digital Download Charts

J.B. Beverley sticking at the No. 1 Spot for Hot New Releases on Amazon

2014 is going to be bring in a new level of game play to Rusty Knuckles Music. As many of the bands are starting to hit the charts normally only seen by the major labels, we have been gaining ground in a vast amount of areas. Proud to announce that we also just landed a new distribution partner through Universal for Australia, which also opens up Japan and other Asian markets for touring. Time for that big push across the Pacific Ocean. 

Waking up and checking the reports finds customers going to Amazon and Itunes in droves. Thanks to everyone for the continued support and its great to see J.B. Beverley and Possessed By Paul James and labels such as ours and Hillgrass Bluebilly hitting such a vast audience. This is what hard work is all about.

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J.B. Beverley Debuts At #1 On Amazon Alt. Country & Americana MP3 Charts

J.B Beverley debuts at #1 on the Amazon Alt. Country & Americana charts for the week of 11.12.13

We have to apologize to our pals over at Hillgrass Bluebilly and Possessed by Paul James for unseating them at the #1 spot on the Amazon MP3 best seller list for Alt. Country & Americana, with J.B. Beverley's new album. The first round is on us, next time we cross paths, but then again, yall are Texans and I am guessing we better, load up the artillery, hahhaha!

Damn cool to know that two indie labels are conquering spots on the digital charts and showing that you can do it with a DIY attitude and purely through great music.

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Is Jeff Bezos The Future Face Of A News Leader?

The sale of the Washington Post to the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos is quite interesting in a plethora of ways. Amazon disrupted the e-commerce system through fast shipping and a never ending assortment of products. Ebay once reigned king online, but feels dated in comparison to the power of the Amazon market place. The variety and options for items, far outweigh ever having to go to an actual store, for absolute convenience. 

As a independent record label working our best to help bands gain a foothold with new albums, there are many lessons to glean from Amazon and Jeff Bezos. One of the primary goals of Rusty Knuckles Music is that we will succeed in the long haul. I don't operate in the mindset of a get rich quick scheme, as it lacks a true end game. Calculated risks are what I enjoy and I don't gamble on frivolous endeavors such as the lottery, slot machines or poker tables. I calculate numbers and ideas on a plan of action with albums and the right individuals. Music is a tangible product that people truly need. They may not know it until the right song comes on, but music is our heart beat.

By focusing our goals on the long haul, success is measured and attainable. Our content, such as this particular news feed, is based on the elements we enjoy in parallel to the music that is being distributed. The bands within Rusty Knuckles Music focus on the long view, as a one hit wonder is the music industry of yesterday. Commercial radio and chain music stores aren't our audience. They could have been, but that time has come pass and new media is our voice, loud and clear.

Our infrastructure is based upon being honest with the bands, customers, vendors and most of all the relationships we create within our network. One great aspect of the network is the ability to find truth in what is being reverberated. I see this almost as a form of detective work in the need to find the elements that have a semblance of reality. Don't forget this is the entertainment business and "Fake it til you make it," is definitely lived and practiced by many along with endless name dropping. Those notions are as shallow as a kiddie pool and as believable as buying a coffee farm in Belize, from your spam account.

I look at folks such as Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson in the business world as a compass to follow. Understanding that the sale of the Washington Post is a brilliant end game strategy is exactly what I enjoy reading about and look forward to how the company evolves as a respected news source. 

Thanks to everyone that has purchased items from us, had a cold beer and talked shop at a show and most of all to all the bands we work with. These relationships separate the wheat from the chaff and build a strong and nimble community.

Check out the article on Mashable.com

The face of news might change for the better, with new leadership at the Washington Post

"What's intriguing about Jeff Bezos, who purchased The Washington Post this week, is not that he's a digital guy or that he has a lot of money — though both certainly help — but that ever since he founded Amazon, he’s specialized in the long view. 

The company lost money for nine years, and Bezos continues to prioritize long-term investment over near-term profit. That's how great, enduring companies are created or transformed — by building strong infrastructure, products, brand and relationships with customers. And to their credit, Amazon shareholders are rewarding this strategy and vision. They know there will be time enough to see returns on these investments, returns that will reflect the massive value Bezos is building.

By contrast, too many news companies have been paralyzed by the tyranny of short-term horizons. Media executives under-invested in digital not because they were stupid but because it was actually more rational for them to focus on slowing the decline of their traditional revenue lines — more rational, that is, in the short run. In the long run, of course, that thinking is suicidal. 

At way too many newspapers, we've seen a decline in the quantity and quality of journalism — the kind of reporting that keeps in check government officials and others with power, the kind of journalism that's as vital to the health of our democracy as it ever was. One indirect measure: The number of newsroom jobs dropped from 52,600 in 2007 to 38,000 in 2012, according to the American Society of News Editors.

As bleak as the industry sometimes seems, the news media can be profitable — but only if companies better serve their customers, transform their business models, and alter their financial time-horizons. That includes having the kind of patience that Bezos demonstrates at Amazon. Outlets that cut back on basic services — especially reporting — will improve their near-term quarterly profit, but squander the future.

At Amazon, Bezos didn’t just “crack the digital code” in a technological sense; he understood how the Internet changed the economics of serving consumers. And while he looked at the long run, he also pursued the long tail. Amazon mastered the capacity to provide products and services not only for the big sellers but the smaller ones, and not only for buyers who want to buy the biggest selling products but also consumers with unique interests. He did this, for instance, by deploying technology to improve the economics of low-volume sales. With infinite shelf space, he built a business that offers everything to everyone, something you couldn't do in a store — even a big box retailer.

Implicit in the mastery of the long-tail strategy is the idea that a big company can serve each customer with precision, in part by deploying sophisticated data analytics and in part by using technology to efficiently deliver good service to small numbers of people. That is an anathema to some in “mass media,” but news outlets need to embrace that approach if they're to serve readers with enough value to regain relevance. 

For instance, when a newspaper writes a series about local schools, it provides the same information to every reader. When a newspaper creates a searchable database about the quality of local schools, and gives each reader the ability to select the variables they care most about, then the paper is tailoring the reporting to each reader. One database creates a thousand stories. 

This is not to say that a news outlet's strategy should be to offer everything to everyone, but there are no doubt opportunities for the Post to offer more news and information to more people — for example, by becoming the world's leading news outlet covering policy and politics, not only in Washington but in capitals around the world, and covering more topics more deeply. Sure, that would be expensive, but the relevant market for Internet companies today is the world's population, not just the U.S.'s — why not the same for news outlets? 

Newspapers, like TV stations, never got away from the artificial boundaries drawn by their distribution technologies — for newspapers, the reach of their physical distribution and for broadcasters, the reach of their antennas. Now they can imagine distribution patterns focused on topic or audience rather than just geography.

News organizations have to figure out ways of serving a wide range of readers and viewers, and in deeper ways — not merely pitching to either the lowest common denominator or the most affluent (the two safest business models). Financial journalism is doing well, as are celebrity slideshows. 

What’s hurting is labor-intensive reporting on whether, say, city hall is squandering money, the zoning board is ruining a neighborhood, or police are killing innocent people. This kind of reporting takes money, patience, and the belief that these civically worthy endeavors will create such good will with the customer (and local businesses) that the company will benefit in the long run.

Finally, Bezos is an intriguing media mogul because he’s succeeded at getting consumers to pay for things — as he did with Amazon Prime, a monthly subscription that includes unlimited free shipping, an online video service and more. For decades, the newspaper publisher has focused on gaining advertisers. 

Now, publishers must be just as focused on creating products that readers or viewers will pay for. Although most of the debate has centered on paywalls, media should contemplate a much wider range of products: hosting events, publishing e-books and Kindle singles and streaming footage of high school sports, to name a few. News media need to be asking themselves: Why didn’t we invent Angie’s List, Monster.com, fantasy football or other products that are generating revenue in areas that newspapers used to dominate?

The good news for Bezos is that he's acquiring one of the strongest traditional news businesses, certainly measured by commitment to principles of journalism and the value of hard reporting. (And Don Graham, the chairman and chief executive of The Washington Post Company, saw the digital currents coming and kept the ship afloat and sturdy through a tough storm — no small task.) It’s exciting to see one of the men who made his fortune in the digital disruption turn his attention to reinvigorating one of the potential casualties of that turmoil. 

We don't know if Bezos bought the Post as an act of altruism or business genius, or something in between. What we do know is that, at Amazon, he learned, and taught, the right lessons. “The three big ideas at Amazon are long-term thinking, customer obsession, and willingness to invent,” Bezos said recently. Precisely the ones the news industry now needs."

Dive Into Kara Clark's Albums On Itunes

Whether you purchase albums in cd or digital format isn't a concern to us. The big thing we would dig is that you just check out the band or artists and continue to find great music. As the outlets change from indie stores to online retailers and huge outlets such as Amazon, there is more music than ever. Kara Clark is one of those artists that we feel is a cut above the rest. Just check it out and have a listen. She is the songwriter that will take you on a long journey and leave you reeling on the other end of this canyon highway, with a bitter sweet crooked grin knowing another voyage is about to begin.

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Will Amazing Radio Become The David That Topples Goliath?

Technology is a friend to us all. It has made our lives easier in so many facets. One of the biggest areas that we enjoy the most is access to an unprecedented amount of music world wide. Without youtube our days of enjoying new videos would come to a grinding halt. 

There is change afoot and especially in the way we listen to music. Terrestrial radio is full of crappy playlists that only appeal to folks who want to hear pop hits. Real music enthusiasts have to focus their energy on finding new stations online or seeking out new bands far and wide. There is a company in England called Amazing Radio and they are making quite the headway into becoming a new type of Muzak, but far more compelling.

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Link to original post on cnet.com

"CEOs of digital music startups often strive for diplomacy when it comes to talking about the major powers that control most of the world's music. Not Paul Campbell. 

"Simon Cowell is Satan, and the major labels have become antique dealers," says Campbell, a 53-year-old former BBC TV and radio producer turned entrepreneur. "We don't touch the labels and never shall. The key is to cut yourself free from the labels." 

Which is exactly what Campbell has done with his company, Amazing Media, and it's why he's having such success. 

Unless you're really into new music, or live in the U.K., where Amazing Media has created quite a stir for reasons I'll get into in a moment, you've probably never heard of Amazing Media. But the way Campbell is going, that's soon likely to change. His business has piqued the interest of big Silicon Valley venture capitalists; he's in talks with major consumer Web businesses to distribute Amazing music; and he's on track to launch a radio station in the U.S. in the coming months. 

Campbell, in work mode. (Credit: Amazing Media)

In fact, what began five years ago as a simple Web site to let unknown musicians upload and sell their music has grown into a burgeoning business unlike any of the others trying to take advantage of the chaotic music industry. Amazing Media also does something else that sets it apart from the likes of Pandora, Spotify, SoundCloud, and all the rest: it makes money. 

Campbell, a professional drummer since he was a kid, began thinking about the opportunity in music back in 2005. Technology had made it supercheap to record and produce music, but it was still a monstrous challenge to get your music heard. It was an even bigger challenge to make any money from it. 

He wanted to change that. Campbell assembled a small team and, working from the top floor of a Victorian building in Newcastle, England -- the home town of Sting and The Animals -- started building Amazingtunes.com, a site where musicians could upload and sell tracks and get paid 70 percent of the price. 

That might sound like a bad deal for Campbell, certainly compared with the big labels, which typically pay musicians about 8 percent of the sale price. But his main goal was to build the catalog of music and win customers. Plus, musicians who used the site gave Amazing the rights to use their music for promotional purposes. "The idea was to be fair to the musicians," says Campbell. "And we deliberately gave margin away to attract users." 

The site launched in 2007, and the first couple of years were slow going. This was pre-Twitter -- even pre-Facebook, to some degree -- and it took a while to amass much of an audience. Gradually, though, more and more musicians joined, and competitors emerged. Amazingtunes.com gained enough traction and buzz that in 2008, Richard Branson's Virgin Media tried to take over the business for an undisclosed amount. Campbell wouldn't sell. 

Amazingtunes.com is similar to well-backed SoundCloud or BandCamp, sites that also let musicians push their music out across social networks and the Web. But Campbell takes things a step further. A few steps, actually.

AmazingRadio and AmazingTunes.com are working to create a level playing field for musicians

In 2009, he launched a commercial-free, national radio station to play 100 percent new music, a strategy that anyone in the radio industry would have told him was crazy. Campbell did this as a promotional tool to drive people to Amazingtunes.com, which would supply all the music for the station. Amazing Radio, which broadcasts on Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) and via the Internet, effectively became a 24-7 marketing channel for Amazingtunes.com. 

Campbell had no marketing budget for the station. Instead, he and his team took to the streets and got passersby to record promos. The station also had no DJs. It just played programmed tracks, like a jukebox. 

The algorithms, along with the fans, did the work. The best songs on Amazingtunes.com -- as measured by how many people listened to, purchased, and liked them (in the Facebook sense) -- bubbled up and got featured on Amazing Radio. If no one played a song, it got ignored.
Next, Campbell beefed up the station by signing on some known musicians and DJs to host regular programs. The station fuels the Web site, where people purchase songs, and vice versa. It's a powerful cycle. 

Today, Amazingtunes.com boasts music by 65,000 artists, some of whom are now signed to indie labels. Musicians, even those signed to labels, agree to give Amazing the rights to air the music for obvious reasons: they want the exposure, and it boosts their download sales. 

The mix of software and DJs has turned Amazing Radio into a powerful force in emerging music of all styles -- not just in the U.K. but also in the U.S, where people can listen via the Web or mobile apps, which, incidentally, a fan built for free. 

"I haven't met a good manager in the recent past that hasn't brought up Amazing Radio," said Daniel Glass, whose New York-based Glassnote Entertainment just signed a band called Daughter, which has been heavily promoted on Amazing Radio and that Glass expects to be big in the U.S. 

Radio row
Amazing Radio is also the source of the "stir" I mentioned at the beginning of this article. A couple of weeks ago, Campbell got into a fight with the company that broadcasts the station, over the terms of their contract. Campbell wouldn't budge, and at midnight on May 14, Amazing Radio went dark. 

Designed by a fan fighting to get Amazing Radio back on the air. (Credit: Amazing Media)

Fans weren't pleased. Campbell had taken to Twitter to announce what was happening, and within an hour, the outrage began. One fan launched an online petition, another created a Facebook page, plenty others wrote to members of Parliament and major newspapers. 

In the subsequent days, Amazing launched a new logo -- "Keep the Faith" -- that a fan designed unsolicited and sent to Campbell. The company also began selling T-shirts with the logo and is using the money as a prize for a Keep the Faith band competition it's holding next week. 

The whole thing has turned into a major publicity event for Amazing Media, with people from indie labels around the world also voicing support. It's also once again reinforced to Campbell that he's doing something people care deeply about. 

"This is not about whether we're on the radio in the U.K.," says Campbell. "It's about how musicians find an audience in the modern world." 

And how music fans find new music, which in Amazing's world means a mix of crowdsourcing, knowledgeable DJs, and algorithms -- a formula that goes beyond creating playlists of known music that you share with friends on Facebook. 

"It's nice to be able to be your own DJ," says Billy Mann, a top producer and music exec who has written songs for Pink and Jessica Simpson, "but there is a place for good taste-makers, especially in the sterile digital world we're living in." 

Muzak with an edge
Just after Campbell launched the radio station, a store owner e-mailed him asking if he could use music from Amazing in his shop as background music. That led Campbell to develop a new part of the business, called Amazing Instore. It's also the part that's financially fueling the rest of the company, which, while still small, is on track to make $3 million this year in profits. (Spotify can't claim that). 

Because most of the music on Amazing isn't bound by publishing deals, Campbell is free to license it. His only commitment is to pay the artists, who Campbell says make 120 times what they earn from having their songs streamed on Spotify, based on what some musicians who work with both Amazing and Spotify have reported to him. 

Amazing launched the store business in 2010, and Campbell quickly realized how lucrative it could be. Amazing customizes the music for each client, so what you hear in a clothing store will be different than what you hear in a restaurant. In some case, clients want ads -- maybe to promote sales going on -- and Amazing creates those as well and builds them into the sound track. 

A fan built Amazing's mobile apps for free.

This leads to three revenue streams: a license for the technology, the music, and the ads. Only the music fees get shared with the artist, and the terms vary. This new business helped the startup enough that Campbell changed the terms of Amazingtunes.com, so that the musicians get 100 percent of the price (Campbell also did this to compete with Bandcamp, which gives the artists 85 percent of sales). 

Amazing now has deals with more than 1,000 retailers and restaurant chains across the U.K., and Campbell has been meeting with chains in the states to try to crack the U.S. market. 

He's gunning hard to take on the U.S. on many fronts. He won't share details about his plans for a U.S. radio station, other than saying it will launch either in Boston, New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles. He's brought on Ted Cohen, a pioneering digital music exec, who's been trying to cut deals with AOL, Yahoo, and others to boost the audience for emerging artists and for Amazing. So far, says Cohen, "The reaction has been unbelievably favorable." 

And Campbell is in talks with big VC firms, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Mayfield Partners, as he seeks to raise $30 million to fund expansion in the U.S. (to get this far, he raised $8 million from private investors). 

"The basic pitch is this is a bold and imaginative idea that will either fall flat or become a billion-dollar business," says Campbell, who has 26 full-time employees. "It won't be anything in the middle. We're trying to reinvent the music industry." 

That will mean adding more lines of business, and becoming more global. Already, Amazing is working with festivals across the U.K, and it's starting to put on concerts that it records and broadcasts. It plans to edge into more traditional revenue streams such as publishing, merchandise, and ticketing and will likely add its own label, even releasing albums. With the goal remaining that of bringing good musicians to the world, and helping them make a living."

Shaking Up The Music Industry And The Future Of Streaming Content

There are five big companies to always be on the lookout for in the high tech crowd. Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have done more to shape the last number of years than we care to write about. Whether its epic failures such as Microsoft's Zune or the epic heights, when it comes to Apple's stock price, these companies continue to shape our future online.

Hearing the news of Google being ready to grow it's own music service is no surprise. I am honestly surprised it hasn't happened sooner, but it plays in accordance with the skyrocketing growth of the Android market and the new phones and notepads about to be released for the holiday shopping rush. Add into this mix, Apple's announcement of it's own Pandora style music player that is customizable to your tastes and now there are some game changing plays in motion.
Competition breeds innovation and we are stoked to hear about Apple's new streaming service, as Pandora is a great application, but it has done little in terms of progression within the last few years. With Apple and Google exploring new streaming options, indie labels such as us, without deep coffers, can continue to charge into battle.

Could Apple's new streaming service put the nail in Pandora's coffin?

Spotify Is Growing, But Isn't It Growing Faster? - From Time.com

Digital music has been slowly creeping up to dominate the overall charts for music sales, but there is a quiet rebellion afoot. This rebellion is being staged directly with fans to bands. The cause is simple and effective and goes something like this. Fans want more interaction music and players of the music they enjoy. Call it a novelty idea, but we call it planting a flag and building your army.

As fan interaction and wanting to get even more involved with the artists they enjoy supporting, several key areas are growing steadily. Two of those things are unique items available to purchase from the bands and or labels and the amount of music being listened to on Youtube.

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If you haven't listened to playlists on the premier video channel, well, get started. Hell, why not even start with the Rusty Knuckles Music channel first of all! Besides our own blatant self promotion we urge yall to check out all the music you dig on youtube and pay more attention to the number one radio station world wide for finding new music and the classics you enjoy. FM radio is just too damn boring for true music connoisseurs.

Find the music you love with Spotify

Link to original article on Time.com

"Spotify has frequently been hailed at as the savior of the moribund music industry. Sooner or later, the pundits argue, a streaming music service that gives users unlimited access to virtually every piece of recorded music in the world for a modest price – and that creates a revenue stream for artists — will crowd out the competition. Right?

Maybe so. But even as Spotify steadily builds its paid user base, a number of obstacles seem to be preventing the kind of growth that could restore the music industry to its former healthy glow.

The latest setback for streaming theory comes from Nielsen’s latest Music 360 study, which shows that teenagers get most of their music not from streaming services like Spotify, or from CDs, or even from iTunes — but from YouTube. That’s right: Close to two-thirds of U.S. teens 18 years old or younger use the video site to listen to music. Radio (56%), iTunes (53%), and CDs (50%) are next. The only streaming service that a substantial number of teens use is Pandora (35%). In other words, young people do seem to like the idea of streaming music from the web — they just don’t seem inclined to pay for it.

Nevertheless, Spotify is growing. The service updated its subscriber figures this month for the first time in a year, showing that it now had 15 million active users worldwide, 4 million of whom pay for the service every month. That’s up from 3 million in 2011. And the service is signing up subscribers at an unprecedented rate: According to a report by MusicIndustryBlog, it took seven quarters for Spotify to reach a million paying users while it took Rhapsody, a similar service, 11 years to do the same thing.

Of course, Spotify — unlike Rhapsody — had the advantage of coming of age during the era of widespread broadband use and 4G mobile capabilities. And other streaming services have been just as successful as Spotify yet now don’t even exist. (Ever heard of imeem?)

But perhaps even more discouraging for champions of Spotify is that streaming services seem to be bumping up against a number of immovable objects. For one, YouTube is emerging as a prime destination for music. Listeners can easily search and find virtually any band or artist, all at no cost, without having to download a separate program. And YouTube’s made it much easier for users to re-listen to their favorite artists through saved playlists and customizable tools.

Then there’s the fact that consumers continue to illegally download free music over the web. It’s unclear how much of an effect piracy has on streaming services, but peer-to-peer file-sharing accounts for 15% of the music acquired in the U.S., according to Russ Crupnick, music analyst at NPD Group.

Another issue is our apparently stubborn desire to own the music we enjoy the most. Nielsen’s study shows that while most adults discover new music on the radio, 61% say they still listen to music on CDs. Even the old cassette tape — yes, cassette tape — is outpacing most music services. Nine percent of adults say they still listen to tapes, while only 7% say they consume music through Spotify and 1% use either emusic.com or Rhapsody. Pandora registers much better, with 32% saying they use the service. About 30% of adults say they download music through iTunes.

“I thought streaming would rapidly overtake digital downloads,” says Crupnick. “But I’ve reversed my feeling about that. What the research keeps saying is that people like the idea of ownership.”

Less than 10% of music listeners are digital-only consumers, according to Mark Mulligan of musicindustryblog. Most still listen to music through some combination of digital downloads, CDs, streaming music services, and vinyl records. More than 70% of Spotify listeners also buy digital downloads — mostly from iTunes — according to NPD Group.

“Four million paid subscribers [for Spotify] is a fantastic achievement, but it’s a drop in the ocean in the music industry,” says Mulligan. “I’m not sure we’ll ever get to the position where most people will want to pay $9.99 a month for streaming music. The bottom line is that the vast majority of people value ownership.”

In the digital space, iTunes boasts 80 million customers, and Spotify is nowhere close to seriously chipping away at those sales. While CD sales fell 6% last year, digital downloads and vinyl sales were up big. Album sales across all platforms rose for the first time since 2004 (but you can largely thank Adele for that).

Why do consumers want to own their music? Most consumers have a long history of purchasing musical recordings — but not TV shows or movies — a habit that seems hard to break. Another convincing theory is that the music we listen to is seen as a reflection of identities, more so than the TV shows or movies that we watch. Many streaming services attempt to address this impulse by allowing users to create their own individual playlists — but so far it appears that isn’t enough.

On the other hand, Nielsen’s latest numbers do provide a glimmer of hope for champions of streaming services like Spotify. The youngest generation’s reliance on YouTube shows that it doesn’t place as much emphasis on actually owning the music that they listen to. That means that a playlist, saved somewhere in the cloud, may eventually be a satisfying alternative to ownership for them. If so, streaming services may yet prove to be the music industry’s salvation."

Antiseen Sets The Record Straight, They Are The Titans Of The Squared Circle

On July 10th 2012, Antiseen will be settling the score and proving that they are the titans of the squared circle. Their collection of wrestling songs will finally be available on one amazing disc or batch of songs in a digital download. 

These songs run the gamut of illustrious characters that have entered into death matches, brawls and all out street fights all for the fan's delight. Plus there will be one all NEW and never before released track* recorded especially for FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE!!!

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Antiseen - Falls Count Anywhere, available now!

10 Amazing tracks on gate fold cd digipak

1.EXPLODING BARBED WIRE DEATH MATCH - A tribute to the over the top hard core style of Japanese Wrestling.
2. INVADER ONE MUST DIE - a cover of a tune from long time pals COCKNOOSE about Jose Gonzalez who murdered wrestling great BRUISER BRODY in Puerto Rico.
3. The MYSTERIOUS GREEN MIST - a tribute to the Great Kabuki & The Great Muta and their secret weapon of choice!!!!
4. FROM PARTS UNKNOWN - a tribute to the masked men of Professional Wrestling.
5. SABU - a tribute to the suicidal, homicidal, genocidal, human highlight reel!
6. FUNK U - a tribute to the hardcore icon, the living legend, TERRY FUNK!
7. DEAR ABBY - a tribute to the Madamn from the Sudan, ABDULLAH THE BUTCHER!
8. CACTUS JACK - a tribute to the man who's name is synonymous with HARDCORE...before the socks and tie dye shirts...MICK FOLEY
9.BABY FACE KILLER - a tribute to ALL wrestling HEELS!!!!
10.* BADSTREET USA - Not a tribute to Atlanta, GA but to it's favorite sons THE FABULOUS FREEBIRDS with a cover of the song made famous by the leader of the greatest triple tag team in Wrestling history!!!!

Rusty Knuckles Presents - Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse

Billy Don Burns Gets A New Custom Gas Can Banjo

 "A while back I got an email from someone asking me to build them a gas can banjo. I said no. I always say no. I'm just too busy to put the kind of time it takes into building one for someone, and I've found that people are generally too hard to please to make it worth my while. Plus there's no money in it.

Anyway, this guy wrote back and said it was for a special project for Rusty Knuckles Music to promote an album being put out by a guy I'd never heard of named Billy Don Burns.

Now, having drivin' truck for 20+ years I've had all the opportunity I'll ever want to listen to the radio, and generally decided years ago that I don't really much like anything they play on the radio. But what I heard when I went to rustyknucklesmusic.com was different. It was music so cool that I wanted to be a part.

So, I'm building this gas can banjo for Billy Don Burns. I've never met him, but I can hear by the sound of his voice that I know the places he's been and his singing makes me understand....

So these are not going to be a set of "how to make a gas can banjo" videos. Instead, I'm going to make the can, without my own words, and let Billy Don's music fill in the empty spaces. I'll post the videos as I go along, probably about one a week. I'm not sure how many there will be. Enough to finish the banjo. Not sure how long it will take either. It'll be done when it's done.

Billy Don Burns new album, Nights When I'm Sober (Portrait of a Honky Tonk Singer) will be coming out on July 10th through Rusty Knuckles Music. You can get it through their store, itunes, amazon and many more, but most of all get out to see Billy Don Burns live.

The music in this video is the property of Rusty Knuckles Music and Billy Don Burns and used with their permission. Billy Don Burns new album, Nights When I'm Sober (Portrait of a Honky Tonk Singer) will be coming out on July 10th through Rusty Knuckles Music. You can get it through their store, itunes, amazon and many more, but most of all get out to see Billy Don Burns live. 

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Billy Don Burns Is Like A Modern Day, Motorcycle Gang Version Of James Dean With A Guitar Slung Over His Shoulder

Corporate Nashville and Hollywood are not that far apart in how they create new characters. One glaring difference between the two though, is that we all know Hollywood is about fiction, but Nashville seems to think they can pass off their "outlaw" crap and think folks will believe it.

Read a few of the quotes below directly pulled from Amazon as they are under the reviews of the various album's by Billy Don Burns. With his new album coming out early this summer Billy Don Burns is poised to turn some heads and show the masses what living on the edge is all about.

Pick up some of Billy Don Burns past albums through Amazon

Billy Don Burns jamming with Hellbound Glory and Ronnie Hymes & Carolina Freight

"This collection is a celebration of two cultures. Classic Country from one of it's founders( Hank Cochran has had 8 thousand songs recorded and discovered Willie Nelson). Billy Don Burns is like a modern day, motorcycle gang version of James Dean with a guitar slung over his shoulder, and a lifetime of adventures in the form of songs. For people who live way out on the edge, or for those who just want to hear about it from the experts, THIS ONE IS FOR YOU!! It's hard to find great music these days, but these guys did, and it's on this CD." 

"DO NOT PANIC! DO NOT ADJUST YOUR STEREO!
THIS IS THE CD YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!
THERE IS PLENTY OF RED, RAW MEAT IN THIS
COLLECTION! I THOUGHT I WAS IN A TIME WARP
AS I LISTENED, FROM BEGINNING TO END,
AND MY EYES NEVER ONCE GLAZED OVER! IF YOU
ARE NOW, OR EVER WANTED TO BE, A REBEL,
A RENEGADE, A SINGER, A WRITER, A LOVER,
OR A FIGHTER, YOU WILL LOVE THIS CD. IT IS LIFE
AND LOVE IN ITS RAREST FORM, BRUTALLY HONEST,
HARD AS NAILS, AND YET, TENDER ENOUGH TO PUT
A LUMP IN YOUR THROAT THAT YOU MAY FIND
HARD TO SWALLOW! I LOVE THIS ALBUM..."

Billy Don Burns jamming with Hellbound Glory

"Whoa! This guy's one piece of work. Billy's had a long history of friendships with Nashville, and Texas' baddest hombres (Kristofferson, Haggard, Paycheck, Cash, Jones, etc), but his music was never released until a few of years ago. I'm mighty grateful I've discovered this guy. This is what real outlaw country music stands for. This guy is so brutally honest that there's no chance you'll hear this on mainstream anything. He duets with Tanya Tucker, and Willie Nelson on this, his fourth release (only two are available), but he's twice as gritty as anyone out there today. There's no comparisons. He sings of addiction, drug smuggling, love gone wrong, and Patsy Cline; what more can you ask for? He also produced an album by Paycheck that was recorded when Johnny was in the "Pen" some years ago, but that's never seen the light of day.......yet. That story is pretty amazing. Discover Billy Don Burns today."


"It's proof the "real deals" survive! Billy Don puts "COUNTRY" back on the charts. The likes of Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie and Waylon,Tanya Tucker, Hoyt Axton, Webb Pierce , Johnny Horton, Patsy Cline, Johnny Paycheck,and those of their "grit" will be proud to add him to their peer group. Billy Don Burns has the courage to be honest and the compassion to be sincere....and that's country in my book."


"This isn't your Nashville garden variety sugary what a prefect life I have music. If you want music about that look elsewhere. If you want the raw, the real the honest, the soul filled music get a copy of this cd. Billy Don Burns is amazing. His skillful songwriting and vocals is second to none.

Here is a tiny peak at this masterful lyrics

"His silhouette stands against the wall, The shadow of a man who lost it all. It helps conceal the pain, He rides though the night down a lost highway through a hole he made in is vein, to a plastic place where desperate dies on a dirty street called shame?
From "The Dark Side of The spoon"
 
"She'd go screamin cross the plains of my soul like a train runnin wild. From "Sailin Down the Nile"

He is kind of a Waylon sings David Allen Coe.

The majority of the songs are stripped down. It sounds like it was done live in the studio without those nasty overdubs that robs the music of it's soul.

The only song that get tuned up at the end of "Runnin Drugs out of Mexico" but the song calls for it

He pays tribute to his heroes

Pasty Cline, Haggard, Keith Whitley, Johnny Cash and Hank Sr."

Pasty a duet with Willie Nelson who also plays guitar as well. Which is obvious to the listner

His cover of the Cash classic "Give My Love To Rose" is filled with emotion. His 1997 cd knocked Cash (his hero) out the number one spot on the Amreicana charts.

I've been on the net for almost 10 years I've found alot of indy artists but Billy Don is hands down the best I've ever heard."

Hellbound Glory and Ronnie Hymes Jamming After A Show In Raleigh, North Carolina

Great minds tend to think alike so Ronnie Hymes came up to Raleigh for Hellbound Glory's last show in the area for their recent tour. Ronnie never fails to bring his guitar or solid playing skills anywhere. After Hellbound's early show at the Dive Bar that Sunday evening they decided to take the action outside and continued to play another three hour set with most of the entire crowd going outside for more. Seeing things like this go down is why we put so much damn effort into making the music label happen. We believe in the bands and know all to well where we are going with the Rusty Knuckles Music label. This goes out Hellbound Glory and Ronnie Hymes for putting out such great music and being stand up individuals and the same for all the other bands we work with. The DIY attitude of all the bands and individuals comprising these groups is hands down, second to none.

Ronnie Hymes and Carolina Freight are currently working on their new album and we will be dropping a new single in late February after we go out to Kentucky and shoot a video with Blake Judd of Judd Films. As most of yall already know Hellound Glory's latest album Damaged Goods, continues to dominate on Itunes and now Amazon. This just goes to show that at the end of the day, great songs truly connect with folks and they believe in Supporting Real Country Music.

Hellbound Glory - Photo by Juan Two Three © 2011

Ronnie Hymes & Carolina Freight - Photo by Rusty Knuckles © 2011

ANTiSEEN Digital Downloads - Get Them Now

Have you explored ANTiSEEN's back catalog for digital tracks? If not what the hell are you waiting for? The Boys From Brutalsville have most of their cd releases on itunes, amazon and a few others so be on the lookout for all upcoming releases to have a digital presence.

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Social Distortion - Fans Control The Price Of New Album

It seems as though the fellas in Social Distortion are getting some great ideas cookin' up in their punk rock kitchen or maybe its just some marketing help from Amazon and Epiphone. Either way, the new album is about to drop and damn if they come up with something clever sorta akin to what Radiohead did with their most recent album. Instead of dictating price, they are giving the fans an opportunity to make the price lower via streaming the songs until they reach of 500k streams, which will price the album at $7.99. I dig it and can almost guarantee a great album as they have yet to disappoint.

Stream the new Social Distortion album