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I have some sweet swag for a couple of lucky readers. You may have heard of this little music festival called Coachella, well the shindig is going down Friday, April 25th all the way through Sunday, April 27th. I have two 3-Day Passes to giveaway. But more on that later.

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It has been one crazy week here at the PMA Offices (my MacBook). Nothing has ever been more noteworthy in PMA History than the Kelly Clarkson Demos that I “leaked” this passing week. The attention generated from these four demos blow Green Day doing the Simpson’s, Icky Thump, and the new Foos out of the water. As per usual, the user comments are a pain, but I’m not really complaining, the traffic boost is nice. Still is.

But the most shocking thing to happen because of these demos has been that Billboard Article.

The new material from Clarkson, never one to escape controversy, surfaced earlier this week via the Los Angeles-based music blog Pretty Much Amazing.

Blog editor Luis Tovar says his traffic skyrocketed this week, both with fans looking to hear the tunes, as well as staunch defenders of Clarkson’s right to keep her work private.

“The ‘Crazy Clarkson Fans,’ as one person called them, were amusing at first, annoying later,” Tovar tells Billboard.com. “But it’s great to see the brand loyalty out there. These people are ready to go to war for Clarkson. It’s kind of cute, almost.”

Tovar says he’s unaware of the songs’ origins, saying only that a friend passed him a disc that contained them.

Although it makes me out to look a bit like a jerk, it’s still fucking cool!

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At the moment, I am deciding whether I should move out of this Wordpress.com outfit and transfer the blog on my private server I recently purchased. I am LOVING Wordpress.com’s user-friendly getup, and I almost don’t want to even make the hassel of switching servers. Yes, it does have its limitations like NO ADS, NO THIRD PARTY SCRIPTS, or EMBEDS other than YouTube. It seems the only way I can get around these silly rules is to become a “VIP”. And the only way to become a WP.com VIP is to have somewhere around 500,000 pageviews a month. Which sucks because in March, I hit 125,000. Oh well, maybe one day I will become a VIP.

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Before I tell you how to get your greedy hands on those Coachella Tickets, I want to share a little mix I made up last night. I was feeling sort of sick, exhausted, and bored. So let’s spread the misery.

MGMT – Electric Feel (J-La’s BK Futures Edit)
KRAFTWERK – Neon Lights
Yeasayer – 2080
Evangelicals – Midnight Vignette
Black Kids – I’ve Underestimated My Charm (Again)
Vampire Weekend – M79
Ghostland Observatory – Heavy Heart
Datarock – Computer Camp Love
Radiohead – The Bends

It was completely random, but it got me through the night. Especially after some drunken idiot crashed just outside my place. It wasn’t much fun having 4 or 5 city official vehicles flashing their shit four about an hour.

HAHA, I’m just a ray or sunshine today, aren’t I?

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Alright, here’s the deal, if you want the tickets (yes, both of them). You have to:
1. Email Me!
2. In the email you will: give me the two names of the people that are planning on scoring these Godsends, beg for the tickets, tell me how awesome I am, give me a nice ear full (or eye full?) about how you’ve never been to Coachella and why you HAFTA GO this year because Jack Johnson makes you cream your pants or something…
3. Wait till April 22nd when I email the winner with further instructions.

Tags: Add new tag, Black Kids, Datarock, Evangelicals, FRAFTWERK, Ghostland Observatory, Giveaways, Kelly Clarkson, MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer

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