The Day Technology Killed The Music: Once upon a time musicians dropped out of high school to embark on their musical journey. Now, a sixteen North Carolina boy dropped out of school last year to devote himself to playing ‘Guitar Hero’.

New Streams: Florida band Anberlin is streaming their track ‘Feel Good Drag‘ that’s about to go to rock radio. Hollywood platinum glam band Buckcherry is now streaming new tracks titled To Drunk and Rescue Me which will appear on their upcoming album ‘Black Butterfly‘. Lastly, Oklahoma City rock act Hinder have new tracks on their myspace.

Signings: Phoenix based pop/rock band The Summer Set have signed to The Militia Group

More Money Please: The Los Angeles time ran an article titled ‘More Than A Song‘ that discusses record labels and artists deserving a bigger piece of the pie from video games and online music. “Labels and artists have the right to seek as much as they can for the use of their works, even if they end up setting too high a bar for some companies to clear.”

China Blocks iTunes: Apple’s iTunes has been blocked in China after Olympic athletes downloaded a pro-Tibet album from the site. Consumers in China began flooding Apple help forums with complaints that they could not access iTunes. This is typical for atheist China…

Top Hard Rock Albums:

Kid Rock ‘Rock N Roll Jesus’ – 101,426 (Still on Fire)
Disturbed ‘Indestructible’ – 19,807
Trapt ‘Only Through The Pain’ – 11,291
Saving Abel ‘ Self Titled’ – 8,705
Linkin Park ‘Minutes To Midnight’ – 8,650
Shinedown ‘The Sound Of Madness’ – 8,078
Guns N’ Roses ‘Greatest Hits’ – 7,464
Motley Crue ‘Saints of Los Angeles’ – 7,314
Daughtry ‘Self Titled’ – 6,988
Seether ‘Finding Beauty’ – 6,445
Norma Jean ‘AntiMother’ – 5,720
Flyleaf ‘Self Titled’ – 5,323
Avenged Sevenfold ‘Self Titled’ – 4,078
Poison ‘Best of Poison’ – 3,541