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Sunday, March 13th, 2011After the recent arrest of a man for owning a site which merely linked to potentially infringing content, TorrentFreak has a well reasoned look at some of the constitutional issues surrounding the recent domain name seizures: 5 Reasons Why the US Domain Seizures Are Unconstitutional | TorrentFreak. Share
The Streets – Cyberspace and Reds Mixtape
Saturday, January 29th, 2011Cyberspace and Reds (Deluxe Edition) by The Streets Mike Skinner / The Streets has been on a tear recently. After a year of silence there’s been lots of activity on his blog, leading up to the release of the final Streets album, Computers & Blues. His site includes really interesting videos and other commentary. He’s [...]
Sign of the digital times: Sony shutting plant that used to make 18M CDs a month
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011Sony this week said it was shuttering one of its largest CD manufacturing plants – citing the impact of digital downloads and other economic issues. The plant, which is in Pitman, NJ and has been in operation for some 50 years, first producing vinyl records, will close on March 31 and about 300 people will lose their [...]
Shock! Major record label does the right thing! (.. or does it?)
Monday, January 10th, 2011From the press release: The American people, through the nation’s library, will receive a post-holiday gift of vintage sound recordings from one of the world’s largest recording companies. The Library of Congress and the Universal Music Group (UMG) announced today the donation of more than 200,000 historic master recordings—many long out-of-print or never released—to the [...]
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?
Thursday, November 11th, 2010Interesting infographic from www.informationisbeautiful.net blog. Based on math from The Cynical Musician How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?. Share
How we discover new music today
Saturday, September 18th, 2010We Twitter-follow someone we already like. They follow someone they like and then R(e)T(weet) something he says: We follow the link in the tweet and get to: http://www.collapseboard.com/song-of-the-day-177-agent-ribbons Where we learn about a new band we’ve not heard before. And we get to hear them on videos we’d not seen before. We learn that there [...]
Guess What, Court Says You Might Not Own That Record You Bought
Friday, September 10th, 2010Wired.com’s excellent Threat Level blog has a post called Guess What, You Don’t Own That Software You Bought. It’s all about the federal appeals court saying today that software makers can use shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses to forbid the transfer or resale of their wares, an apparent gutting of the so-called first-sale doctrine. How might [...]
One of Pooplist’s own is very busy (Oh, and gets played on Mary Anne Hobbs’ last show!)
Friday, September 10th, 2010Praveen Sharma (a PoOP contributor in ’01 and ’03) is hard working man. His many projects include PercussionLab and Sepalcure The former has many interesting electronic music based mixes from around the world. The latter has a 4 track EP on Hotflush Recordings which will interest fans of Joy Orbison, Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke and [...]
Matador 21st Anniversary Box – 6 CDs, book (+ poker chips?!)
Thursday, September 9th, 2010A little while ago we highlighted the Ninja Tune XX box. Now it’s the turn of Matador Records. Not quite as elaborate as the NT box but pretty hefty nonetheless. And what’s with the poker chips? Is it so fans have something to use at the Matador 21 in Las Vegas celebration, October 1 – [...]
Another reason to dislike Apple
Saturday, August 28th, 2010As though it were not enough for us to have to suffer through Apple and their fanboi’s constant over-hyping of their over-priced, over-rated, under-performing hardware and their smut-hating, prudish and censorious App store tendencies, we now have to deal with people telling us that their “record has been released on iTunes” Yes, I admit it, [...]
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. Share
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) Share
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) Share
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 Share
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… Share
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 Share
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