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Lo Recordings' production/library music site.
Merlin is a non-profit organisation charged with representing independent music companies in enhancing the commercial exploitation of their copyrights on a global basis.
Boomkat seem to be doing a good job with their Last.fm group.
Radiohead's LED lighting. "Our road to what became, we believe, the first exclusively LED tour lighting system started with a conversation about generators at festivals and green field sites."
"What you’ll be creating is an automated music tumblelog." with Last.fm, Pipes and Tumblr. Very cool.
- Comments on 13429 | Ask Metafilter ask.metafilter.com
I run the website for a very small indie music label, and I want to make it better. What are your favorite indie label websites, and what makes them so good?
- haudio - Microformats microformats.org
"A simple, open, distributed format, suitable for embedding information about audio recordings in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML". Can't believe I missed this microformat. To integrate.
"Welcome to the new AOL Radio service powered by Last.fm!" Hmmm.
Momus on The Chap.
- FATdrop - digital music services for record labels fatdrop.co.uk
Improve the way you send promos and get your pre-release music heard by the right people faster. Create, manage and deliver low-cost, high response, email marketing for each of your releases.
- TotalTunes Control eagle-of-liberty.com
As discreet as the invisible man, TotalTunes Control gives you the control of iTunes. TotalTunes Control offers the ability to create shorcuts to control iTunes and toggle shown TotalTunes Control controller window.
- Cheese Kit Diptych youtube.com
Cheese Kit Diptych is an installation by artist Walter Willems consisting of two drum kits. In one, full rounds of real (mainly Dutch) cheese sit atop drum stands; in the other, plastic cheese replicas usually found in store display windows are employed. In this absurd setting Willems reinforces the international stereotype of the Dutch by using a classic Dutch export product as its main ingredient.
Cheese Kit Diptych was created specifically to be played by world-renowned Dutch improvisational jazz drummer Han Bennink. Bennink, ambassador of the Dutch free jazz scene, is known for his ability to drum on any surface, teeming with humor, virtuosity, and creativity through his animated style. Willems considered his installation incomplete until Bennink played both of the drum kits.
- Kevin Kelly -- The Technium kk.org
"I have been researching new business models for artists working in the low end of the long tail. How can one make a living in a micro-niche? Is it even possible, particularly in this realm of no-cost copies?" Great, if dispiriting feedback from Robert Ri
- Last.fm’s Free Music ‘Boosts Sales’; Unlimited Services ‘To Kick In By 2012’ | paidContent.org paidcontent.org
Last.fm claims its 12-week-old free, full-track music streams have resulted in 119 percent more CD and download sales through its Amazon.com click-through partnership.
- Press Release: Lodwick joins Muxtape jakoblodwick.com
Best. Press release. Ever.
- YMCK Official Web Site ymck.net
A plug-in style software-synthesizer for producing primitive electronic sounds like the old 8bit game consoles.
- Indie Label Experiments with Tiered Music Pricing | Listening Post from Wired.com blog.wired.com · Archived on
"By now, you know all about Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead selling their latest albums at various prices, depending on the format. London-based indie electronica label Highpoint Lowlife is experimenting with a similar model for its new quadruple EP compila
While artists and their handlers devote massive attention to the Web site and MySpace, the Wikipedia page is often overlooked. Recent data suggests they may want to reconsider their priorities.
- Slashdot | NIN's Music Experiment Sells Big Numbers slashdot.org
Among the various options [Trent Reznor] gave fans, the most expensive was the $300 Limited Edition Ultra Deluxe Package. It took just over a day for that package to completely sell out, earning Reznor $750,000 in revenue from just that option alone.
- Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Charlie Brooker: Supposing ... Sandi Thom is the musical antichrist guardian.co.uk
"There's a word for this sort of thing. It's not "art", it's "content". And it's everywhere, measured out by unseen hands, mechanically dangled over the replicants' flapping gobholes; flavourless worms for android hatchlings."
It’s a clever way of using the available technology to get this music into the hands of people who might not otherwise have found it - and to promote it more strongly.
Imogen Heap talks about Barbara Morgen, Cursor Miner and others.
- 'Vinyl has been eliminated' | | Guardian Unlimited Arts arts.guardian.co.uk
Should any music be able to weather such a storm, it's reggae. If nothing else, its largely informal economy allows it to adapt much faster than the major labels in the US or Europe.
- Yahoo! Media Player developer.yahoo.com
Enhances your web site or blog by creating an embedded player for each audio link. All the links can be played with one click, turning the page into a playlist.
"Wired asked David Byrne — a legendary innovator himself and the man who wrote the Talking Heads song "Radio Head" from which the group takes its name — to talk with Yorke about the In Rainbows distribution strategy and what others can learn from the
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"The idea was to collect sounds that came from all over the world to later integrate them to the song called "Going Places". So I posted a little loop taken from the song [and] 6 weeks after the post, I had received about 70 sounds." Good idea.
"Many Chinese labels, nimble and unencumbered by tradition, have adapted to the contaminated marketplace in ways that Western companies are struggling with. Viewing CDs as a loss leader they routinely sign groups to all-encompassing contracts that allow t
- thesixtyone - a music adventure thesixtyone.com
Musicians upload music and listeners decide which songs go on the homepage.
90% of everything is always crap. The more stuff there is, the greater the 10% pile becomes. All we need are effective filtering systems to sort what we consider to be wheat from what we consider to be chaff.
- Free Music Zilla: Free Pandora, IMEEM, Last.fm, Myspace, eSnips... Downloader - Download Pandora, IMEEM, Last.fm, Myspace, eSnips... Free! freemusiczilla.com
"Free music zilla, the first tool specialized for social music downloading, enables you download free music from [..] almost all social music services." Hmmm.
Some of you may have heard about Amato distribution going bust, but unless you understand the music industry you may have not quite understood the negative affect that this will have on dance music.
- Slashdot | The Pirate Bay Facing "Old Fashioned" Pressure yro.slashdot.org
The story itself is pretty tedious but leads on to some great comments on the music industry.
Suburban Home Records, when faced with the complexity and unpredictability of online consumer behaviour, have thrown their hands up and said ‘Oh go on… just download the album already’.
His fans do not want merely to buy his music. They want to be his friend. And that means they want to interact with him all day long online.
The Canadian folk-pop singer Jane Siberry has a clever system: she has a “pay what you can” policy with her downloadable songs, so fans can download them free — but her site also shows the average price her customers have paid for each track.
- Pitchfork: Sufjan Announces Christmas Song Exchange Contest pitchforkmedia.com
Here's how it works: write an original Christmas song, record it, and email the song to us. Asthmatic Kitty will pick a winner, and that person will trade rights to their song for rights to Sufjan's song.
New and interesting websites from around the internet that may be of use to independent musicians and the music business.