Music Industry
Creative Review – New Stüssy book celebrates cover art of UK label Greensleeves
Friday, July 23rd, 2010Creative Review has an interview with the artists behind the Stüssy Greensleeves covers book. Some great pics and some good stories. Creative Review – New Stüssy book celebrates cover art of UK label Greensleeves.
The Music Industry’s Funny Money: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album Sales
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Still think a music career is an easy path to a blinged-out life? Don’t believe the hype. A whole lot of folks have to get paid before the musician does. The Root traces the money trail. Lots more at the estimable Techdirt site: RIAA Accounting: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album [...]
Ninja Tune XX – What a beast! Now *that’s* the way to celebrate your 20th!
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010Ninja Tune, the label founded by Coldcut, is turning 20 years old. The Ninja Tune XX boxset is a beast. You’ve got wo days left to pre-order it at $130.00 Hit the link for the truly frightening details (6 CDs, 6 7″s, stickers, hardback, etc. etc.) and here’s the remarkable track lineup: Tracklists: * = New + Exclusive [...]
Internet Killer is Still Alive – Won’t you please help?
Monday, February 22nd, 2010A while back there was a leak of an EU memo referring to a particular chapter of the proposed ACTA treaty. Now the actual chapter in question has leaked. The reliable Michael Geist has a reasoned analysis: Michael Geist – ACTA Internet Chapter Leaks: Renegotiates WIPO, Sets 3 Strikes as Model. Yes, his analysis is [...]
People who died… NYT disses Lux Interior
Sunday, January 31st, 2010NYT has a good musical video necrology of 2009: But Lux Interior is missing. Wonder if the Grammys one will include him. Wonder how the Grammys one will match up with this one. I suspect that there will substantially more MJ in the Grammy one, what with his kids showing up and all. You’ll have [...]
Classic Album Covers – British Design on stamps
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Now that the stamps are officially released, here’s a good page showing all ten of the stamps. Also includes details of the custom franking you can get. Classic Album Covers – British Design on stamps 7 January 2010- from Norvic Philatelics Amazingly, I have a quarrel with only one of the choices. can you guess [...]
The Life and Death of Alan Carton, 23, the RIAA-Defying Creator of @diditleak
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Wow. The Life and Death of Alan Carton, 23, the RIAA-Defying Creator of @diditleak – New York Music – Sound of the City (Village Voice)
OK (Go) – I’ll bite.
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010via Open Letter From OK Go – OK Go. A really good primer from one of the OK Go boys on the state of the music industry today. And why EMI / Capitol will not let YouTube enable the embedding code on their videos. OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on [...]
Music industry still not dead – Nielsen
Friday, January 8th, 2010In among the numbers: LP sales up 33% A Big Music Year for Jackson, Boyle, Swift, Digital Downloads… and Vinyl? | Nielsen Wire (hat tip: Lazygal, dangerouslyirrelevant, Mashable)
Bono equates file-sharing with child porn. Idiot.
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Quoting: But we know from America’s noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China’s ignoble effort to suppress online dissent, that it’s perfectly possible to track content. Op-Ed Guest Columnist – Ten for the Next Ten – NYTimes.com
It worked! – RATMachine beats X Factor winner UK Xmas #1
Monday, December 21st, 2009Further to my last post, the winners have been declared and “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” is the Christmas refrain on the top of the UK charts. The Grauniad (look it up) has a good round-up of the news and reaction: Rage Against the Machine beats X Factor’s Joe to Christmas [...]
MOG – Perfected steaming online music gets close, really close. Must try.
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Just a quick break from the salt mines (making my way through a large collection of CDs, with an interesting jazz collection in the wings) to strongly suggest that you check out the new features of MOG. MOG has been around for a while in the music blogging/socializing sphere and they have just launched a [...]
NPR, NME (also P4k, Paste, Uncut) release “Best Albums of the ’00s” – Reliably, predicatably, play to own audiences
Thursday, November 19th, 2009NPR: An important distinction: We’re not looking for everyone’s favorite albums or songs, but rather ones that had some sort of historical significance. These are the game-changers — ones that signaled some sort of shift in music, or ones that were particularly influential in some way. We’re looking for the albums and singles people will [...]
Audio researcher’s “Fidelity Potential Index” pits mp3 against vinyl; science or pseudoscience?
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Devin Coldewey over at Tech Crunch has a report on an Audio researcher’s “Fidelity Potential Index”, which pits mp3 against vinyl; science or pseudoscience?. The original report is here: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/Magazine/manufacture/0909/, it includes many caveats…
Mad Decent bigs up David Rodigan
Monday, September 21st, 2009Diplo’s Mad Decent radio interviews David Rodigan, don of selectas. Also links to some wicked videos of the man in action RAM JAM PODCAST!!! | Mad Decent
How it feels to be sued for $4.5m
Monday, July 27th, 2009Trial starts today for Joel Tannenbaum in his file sharing case. He’s written a piece for The Guardian about How it feels to be sued for $4.5m
Latest Odds on Winner of Mercury Music Prize
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009The Mercury Music Prize is a “prestigious” prize awarded to an album made by a British or Irish act in the previous year. Current top 5: Florence And The Machine 5.00 Lily Allen 6.00 Bat For Lashes 8.00 Doves 8.00 Little Boots 8.00 I’m a little surprised by Lily Allen and Doves being so high [...]
TuneCore, Amazon Set to Unveil On-Demand CD Sales
Thursday, May 21st, 2009They’ve been doing burned CDRs in the classical realm for a while. Now the virtual and “real” mucic scenes are merging. Good. The more options they give folks, the more likely that overall music sales benefit. TuneCore, Amazon Set to Unveil On-Demand CD Sales | Wired.com.
NotAtSXSW | Staying home? Share your experience
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009A site collating all tweets with the hashtag #notatsxsw (awwwww, don’t you feel sorry for them…) NotAtSXSW | Staying home? Share your experience.
Obama Administration Declares Proposed IP Treaty a National Security Secret
Saturday, March 14th, 2009SO, get ready to have you ISP monitor your traffic on behalf of the RIAA and to have your iPod checked at the border… (Obama Administration Declares Proposed IP Treaty a National Security Secret | Threat Level from Wired.com.) Perhaps we should start a service where people can upload pictures of their record collections so [...]
SoundExchange, broadcasters reach royalty pact for streams
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009SoundExchange, broadcasters reach royalty pact for streams This one covers regular broadcast stations and their streams. they are still working on the agreements for the “internet only” streamers. But this might show the way. (Ars Technica)
Nightmare or Dream? Heaven or Hell?
Friday, February 13th, 2009Only you can decide…