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Follow Our Friend: DJ Cool V

Attention ya’ll! Our good pal DJ Cool V (@LegendaryCOOLV) is on Twitter! Cut-master DJ Cool V, the legendary multi-platinum DJ, producer and road manger for the World Famous Biz Markie and The Juice Crew, has been on the hip hop scene for over 30 years. He’s still producing, traveling the world with the Biz and Yo [...]

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TuneUp’s Holiday Gift Guide!

There is no stopping the holidays – they’re coming whether you like it or not! And if you’re anything like us, you haven’t even started the task of holiday shopping yet. We don’t blame you. I mean, who’s got the time to go to an actual store? We’d like to help. Listed below are a [...]

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Local Happening: Pianobike

You can hear the music approaching, those piano notes in the air, and as the sound becomes louder and louder you realize…it’s coming from a moving bike! Let us introduce our good pal, Gary. A few years ago, he had an idea to put a piano on a bike and here in San Francisco we [...]

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10 Years Later: The iPod Impact

About a decade ago, a little device called the iPod burst onto the scene and changed the music industry forever. With just a month before it’s official 10th birthday, and the highly anticipated release of the new iPod touch, now would be a good time to reflect on the impact of the iPod. Along with [...]

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Music: Then & Now

With the ever changing Music Industry, it’s hard to actually visualize the changes in how people listen to their music. Lucky for us, digitalmusicnews.com made this super cool animated pie chart that graphs this change from 1980 through 2010. Starting in 1980, 58.9% people in the US purchased their music in LP/EP format. The CD [...]

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