Today is the day of TRUTH… Is the iPhone worth $499? Was it worth waiting out in the rain and heat for 4 plus days? Will there be bugs galore, making it hard to function? Is it really that cool? All of these questions and more will all be answered at 6 PM today…stay tuned for the BIRDS EYE VIEW…

Could there be another news crew out there?

Let the circus beginning… New York is expecting rain this evening and we’re about 29 hours away from the on-sale of the iPhone tomorrow… check back for regular updates

We’re super excited for the Transformers…shout out BUMBLEBEE, these toys were spread throughout my basement growing up so we couldn’t resist.

The line is starting to slowly grow looks to be over 10 folks in line at the 5th Ave Apple store…including some TV crews.

Bloginterviewer reached out to Vicariousmusic and asked us to do an interview…check it out!

eXtreme Elvis: Live Video
Elvis Presley was extreme. eXtreme Elvis is extremely extreme.

By Mike Errico

Blender.com, April 2006
Exhumed from the Blender.com vaults, this clip was filmed at the Garage in Los Angeles when a documentary filmmaker, on assignment in the club’s main room, stumbled onto the behemoth burning up (and hosing down) the acoustic side stage. Part performance art, part punk rock, part incontinence, this happy ending from the king of King impersonators prompted one staffer to dub him “the best show I’ve seen since I last showered with Ricky Martin.”

Big UPS to Brian Berkowitz for shooting a GREAT VIDEO!!!

This week in Soundscan Bon Jovi “Lost Highway” sold 291,532 making it the #1 selling record this week and the White Stripes “Icky Thump” sold 223,056…what is wrong with the world when an over the hill band outsells a great current band?

Drifter and Smashing Pumpkins have teamed up to make a special limited edition run of t-shirts to celebrate the return of one of the greatest bands ever.

In honor of the Pumpkins’ return to glory, Drifter has created shirts to commemorate SP’s shows at SF’s Fillmore and NC¹s Orange Peel.

Drifter will be selling these limited shirts in Villians and Union. Purchase of the shirt guarantees entry into contest where the winner will receive tickets to some of the residency dates.

T-shirts are also available for purchase at current Smashing Pumpkins tour dates.

Click Here for more details 

According to Bob Lefsetz the below are the reasons the iPhone will fail:
1. Apple doesn’t dominate the handset business like it did with iPods.  Not everybody needs data, yet…

2. No smartphone producer can compete with Apple, because of the underlying SOFTWARE!  If you think Windows Mobile is a usable alternative, DO ME A FAVOR AND STICK WITH IT!

3. Steve Jobs becomes the most famous person in America.  A new Charles Lindbergh, but with true cred.

4.  The price of iPhones goes down as volume increases.

5.  Macs blow up!  An iPhone runs the same OS X as you’ve got on a Mac.  Do you really think people are going to use Mac handhelds and want to stick with their Windows computers?  Not gonna happen.

6. Although Apple Stores will continue to do boffo business, the days of going to the mobile store to get a phone and sign up will be GONE!  The most interesting news to come from Apple today is that you activate your iPhone via iTUNES!  And you know that will work…  As for needing to go into a store to select a phone, HOW FUCKING COMPLICATED IS IT?  That’s one thing Steve Jobs did when he came back to Apple, streamline the product line.  And if you NEED handholding, you can go to the GENIUS BAR, as opposed to visiting the mobile store peopled with barely trained employees who barely last.  Otherwise, you’ll just buy your iPhone on the Web.

7. Web-surfing will be de rigueur on handsets.

8. People will come to expect functionality from handsets.  And the word will be spread by iPhone owners, who will demonstrate their prized possession to EVERYBODY!  You could look at a Razr, but no one demonstrated how it worked, after all, it was JUST A PHONE!

9. After dropping the day of release, Apple stock will continue to climb.

10. Mac OS X Leopard will be a huge story in the press, garnering mucho coverage.  Arcane features that only techies would have noticed previously will be trumpeted everywhere, drawing even more Windows users into the Mac fold.

11. More businesses will go Mac.  Their employees will DEMAND IT!

12. A new level of functionality and usability will be expected from smartphones.  It’s akin to the Japanese invading America with their automobiles.  They were better built, and worked better too.  The bar has just been raised.  VERY HIGH!

13. Jimmy Iovine or one of his music biz buddies will clamor to pre-load the iPhone with their company’s music, but Steve Jobs will say no, he doesn’t want to foist anything upon his users, he doesn’t want to sully the user experience.

14. Movie studios will do business with Apple.  This ain’t no iPod screen, this YOU CAN watch a movie on.  They’re afraid of missing this market.

15. Dell won’t recover.  Microsoft will have its cash, but having lost all credibility, purveying a lame OS, its stock will no longer ascend into the stratosphere.

16. You will remember this week, if not quite the same way as you remember Kennedy being shot or the Apollo moon-landing, close.  Because this is a game changing event.  Not like the Mets winning the ‘69 World Series, not like the Red Sox breaking the curse, but BIGGER!  This is not momentary, this is FOREVER!  This is like the World Wide Web, this IRREVOCABLY changes the game.

17. You will want one.  Even if you never had a smartphone before.  You will want to play, just like you purchased your first computer to use AOL.

18. Naysayers will exist.  Most losing their credibility, being shown as having an investment in a competitor.

19. The NEXT Jobs speech will be must see TV.  Expect new iMacs and new iPods in the fall.

20.  Cheaper iPhones will arrive when supply catches up with demand.  At the latest, at next year’s January MacWorld conference.

21. iPod growth will start to level off.  People will prefer the iPhone.

22. Mobile music stores will have a hard time getting traction.  You SIDELOAD the iPhone.  To buy music on Verizon?  WHY?  Unless it’s cheap and sans copy protection, so you can load it on your iPhone WHEN YOU GET ONE!

23. The iPhone will function on AT&T’s nascent high speed network by January, at the latest.  AT&T’s stock will go up, it will invest in infrastructure, it will stop hemorrhaging subscribers, its chairman will be seen as a VISIONARY, lauded in “Forbes” and “BusinessWeek” for taking a risk.

24.  The 80s conversion, wherein tech became cooler and more important than music, will be complete.  The oldsters will run the major labels into the ground, new kids will continue to flock to tech startups, where they’ve got a CHANCE!

25. It will be YEARS before everybody is convinced that one device is enough.  Just like those people who carried BlackBerries and cellphones in the past, there will be people carrying iPods and mobile handsets.  Until…

26. It’s unclear whether Jobs will solve the next  big convergence/tech problem, because right now he’s so far ahead of the game, inventing a device most people didn’t even know they needed, that we can’t SEE what the next device IS!

6 folks now in line…with them going on sale Friday we’re eager to see how quickly this line grows.

Big thanks to Prefix Mag for hooking us up with the photos, the entire photo gallery of the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival can be seen at Prefix Magazine

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Existing customers can add unlimited data for $20 – $40 with a varying number of text messages.

Michael Jackson, is that you?

6/26 at 4:36 PM: The line outside the 5th Ave Apple has now grown to 5 folks, however the first 2 are simply now chair holding spots….shady

It was past 11pm by the time the kids of Shiny Toy Guns took the stage at what’s shaping up to be one of NYC’s hottest new music venue’s last night. Well worth the wait, STG go full throttle from load in to load out, creating an energy so strident that most didn’t hear the fire alarms going off all throughout their encore.

Their set was just over an hour, which I felt completely appropriate considering they have only released one album. They hit all the key songs off of “We Are Pilots” including Chemistry of a Car Crash, first single Le Disko, Starts with One, and of course closed out the show with crowd favorite and break out track You Are The One. To splice up their set they threw in a little known track from their demo called Rocketship and even covered a little Depeche Mode famously.

The Band member’s raw musical talent is showcased by their constant switch offs: vocals, to guitars, to keyboards and back around. Female lead vocalist Carah Faye is a vision on the keyboards, but her undisputed trademark in the band is her voice which holds a perfect pitch while slicing through its electronic surroundings.

If you hear Shiny Toy Guns are playing at your local music venue, go buy a ticket. Each member on their own is a remarkable talent-it’s pure genius when they join together.

Written by B

Kelly Clarkson performing at The Early Show today…Congratulations on the Album release “My December” today.