Lit did an AMA on Reddit yesterday.

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Last.fm has announced on their website that they are "investigating the leak of some Last.fm user passwords." It is recommended that you change your password immediately.

Sheryl Crow has a brain tumor. Thankfully, it is benign and she is healthy.

Are we on the verge of the death of the concert ticket?

Old Wounds have posted up two new tracks titled "Deviant Minds" and "Bleak" here.

Psychologist E. Glenn Schellenberg and sociologist Christian von Scheve teamed up to comb through five decades of Billboard Top 40 hits. They find that, over time, our taste in pop music has veered toward more and more depressing songs.

From the Article

Analyzing Top 40 hits from the mid-1960s through the first decade of the 2000s, they find an increasing percentage of pop songs are written using minor modes, which most listeners—including children—associate with gloom and despair. In what may or may not be a coincidence, they also found the percentage of female artists at the top of the charts rose steadily through the 1990s before retreating a bit in the 2000s.

I'm currently watching the All Things Digital video podcasts they put up of all of Steve Jobs' appearances at the conference, in the background while I post news today. The rest of this week's Technology Round-Up can be found in the replies. As always, check out my blog if you're interested in a more frequently updated round-up of stuff I enjoy during the week.

Amanda Palmer's Kickstarter has broken a million dollars, well past her original goal of $100,000.

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An LCD Soundsystem documentary focusing on the final show in Madison Square Garden in April 2011 will be in select theaters on July 18 only. It's titled Shut Up And Play The Hits, and you can see both a trailer for the film and the theaters where it will be in the replies.

In an interview with Christopher of Mansions, he states that the split with John Nolan of Taking Back Sunday will have more news soon and both songs for the split are done.

In This Interview

I don’t want to say too much, but I think there’s going to be news on that soon. He did his song a couple months ago, and then it was waiting on me to finish mine, and we recorded ours at the beginning of April, and I’m finishing up the mix right now. You should be hearing about that soon.

The Afterlife Kids posted a new new song called "Watch You Bleed" on Bandcamp. It comes off the upcoming album Strange and Unusual, slated to release July 31st.

Tyler Carter will be releasing a free single on Wednesday, featuring Roy English (Brandon Wronski, formerly of Eye Alaska), titled "Stayin' Alive".

Gregg Andrew DellaRocca (The Republic of Wolves / American Gospel) is now selling art prints, some framed, along with iPhone cases and other products, that feature the artwork of TROW's The Cartographer and American Gospel's Tall Tales Vol. 1.

Check the replies for a bunch of technology news from the past week. If you want even more, follow my blog or twitter account - I post tech (and/or what I find interesting) stuff pretty frequently throughout the week there.

We Still Dream will be releasing a 3 song digital EP called Therapy on July 3rd. Track listing is below and new tour dates are in the replies.

Track listing
1. Cop Outs and Cover Ups
2. Endless
3. Stand Still

I, The Breather have parted ways with their bassist Armand Jasari.

3OH!3 are teasing at something on their website. What does "seven" signify?

Update: Now we have six. Looks like a countdown.

You ever wonder what a song with Justin Bieber and Mac Miller would sound like? Well, it's going to happen.

Former Play for Keeps bassist Cash Colligan has started a Kickstarter to bring his friend, former The Cab drummer Alex Johnson, to Las Vegas so he can play drums in a new band. They're looking for $1,000, and according to the project description, "It would make ZERO sense to not have Alex Johnson become a part of this project that WILL CHANGE MUSIC. He knows nothing about this project, though I'm sure when we go live it will be hard to keep the secret." For pledging $100, you can get a whopping email and three tweets from Alex. We've had plenty of Kickstarter debates on this website - where do you think this falls in the spectrum of Kickstarter's niche and usefulness in the music industry?

Jay Z has revealed the preliminary line up for his Made In America festival. Pearl Jam will join the artist as headliners of the event alongside other acts such as D'Angelo, Rick Ross, Miike Snow, Passion Pit and Janelle Monae. The full line up and details so far can be found here.