This is pretty sweet. Mic manufacturer Blue has just announced a new mic, dubbed Mikey that straps right onto your iPhone. From the Blue website:

The all-new Mikey is the perfect tool for mobile recording. Featuring two custom-tuned Blue capsules for stereo recording, a line-input, USB pass through and a stylish updated 230-degree rotating design. Mikey’s three gain settings allow for a versatile recording experience for everything from a loud concert to a whisper. Record lectures, voice notes, live music, interviews, and more. Mikey also comes with its own carrying pouch and headphone adapter or playback and monitoring. Mikey turns your iPod or iPhone into the coolest mobile recording device around!

Word has it that the mic will run about $100 and include an app for easy editing and more control.

-Greg

I’m a big fan of Mike Posner the artist as well as Mike Posner the marketing machine. The kid makes sure to get interviews and video any and everything he does in the studio, on the road or just for fun. Here is a dope interview with TheCoolestGeek.com on a recent tour stop.

-G

Listening to Chris Young the Rapper and get an ad over the music player for a LeAnn Rimes and Dennis DeYoung show.

Nice targeting. Start spending smart money people. These sites (Facebook, Google, Myspace, etc) have some of the best targeting the world of advertising has ever seen, yet media buyers keep thinking more = more, instead of targeting = more.

Oh well.

-G

New video from NYC vet and LA transport hip-hop artist CurT@!n$. The song is fresh and so is the video. Hip-hop hipsters be warned.

He also has an interesting take on the business, something I appreciate and believe in. You can create a lucrative business and remain in the background, walk the malls and have a high society lifestyle. Here’s a video that explains more

Check CurT@!n$ out on

• Myspace
• Twitter
• High Sociey Life Blog

-G

This is dope and tragic. Found it on Large Up at OkayPlayer this morning. The skateboard culture of Jamaica as told by Wildfiyah from the Nerdz Republic crew in Kingston Jamaica. I love seeing the urban culture all over the world and especially the positivity of boarding in a country like Jamaica. Big ups to Wildfiyah and DJ Gravy for sharing this.

Peep the video below over at Large Up (the embed code isn’t cutting it)

-Greg

Chad Gilbert from NewFoundGlory was hospitalized for thyroid surgery due to concern of possible cancer. He thankfully reports from his twitter that all is well and he does not have cancer.

A very informative documentary about a particular drum beat or “break” that was taken from a band almost 40 years ago as a sampling for new drum beats up until music today. This video describes how this particular beat has influenced contemporary music and how the soundscapes from hip-hop to rock have altered this beat into making it their own.

Video explains the world’s most important 6 second drum loop.

Pharrell Williams of N.E.R.D. and the Neptunes recently gave a keynote interview at MIDEM Music Conference in Caines, France. Here is the video where Pharrell goes over making music, his inspirations to music, and some of his new ventures including Artst and Kidult.

Kanye’s always got a story to tell and he’s always trying to share his story in new ways. A review of VH1 Storytellers as well as a video of his public display of affection can be viewed here.

As many of you know, Bamboozle is a famous musical fest that comes around once a year congregating all kinds of indie-music lovers who are serenaded with all kind of musical performances. MGMT, one of the rising electro-pop bands popular among the hipster scene, have joined Bamboozle this year.