Wall Street Journal Exposes Marié Digby

The Wall Street Journal did an amazing job of unearthing the real story behind YouTube music sensation Marié Digby in a brilliant exposé. Writers Ethan Smith and Peter Lattman pulled no punches in investigating how Hollywood Records manufactured Diby’s grassroots campaign and coached her to lie to reporters about “being discovered on YouTube.” According to the Journal, Hollywood’s well-crafted, promotional...

Read More

De la Mancha Releases Sumo – Free Windows VST Effect Plug-in

de la Mancha has released sumo, a free Windows VST effect plug-in that will “make any sound as fat as you like. It’s good for fattening up leads and basses, adding some weight to pads, making your vocals chubby and your drums obese.” The kids at Mancha spent more time looking up synonyms for fat in the Thesaurus then actually writing marketing copy because that’s just about all they had to say. And don’t...

Read More