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- UNCHARTED AUDIO: Fact Magazine factmagazine.co.uk
"Ploughing a uniquely British furrow through the woozy outer limits of electronic music, the London-based imprint is now six years old; this year, it gave birth to Signals - a subscription-only series of 7"s by artists including Cursor Miner and Si Begg."
Great Sherburne article on the past, present and future of electronic music. "Scenes and sounds that were once strictly local affairs now have no problem connecting with niche publics anywhere on earth."
- Last.FM Music Manager for Labels and Artists FAQ musicmanager.last.fm
"[A] controversial session in which six teenage girls [...] discussed their music consumption practices." Fascinating stuff, especially the question from the former BPI Executive Chairman.
Not a particular fan of Reznor but there's some smart opinions in this piece.
As counterintuitive as it may seem in this age of iPods and digital downloads, vinyl -- the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles -- is poised to re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary.
The music industry is evolving, and major labels are starting to develop new strategies to help adapt to the current DIY climate.
- Step 1: Unyoke the Artists | MetaFilter metafilter.com
Useful comments on the last100 "Five ways the music industry can prevent its own demise." article
- Who's doing DIY music download sales? | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
I'm looking for music artists (individuals or bands) who are selling their own music via digital downloads (with some specific qualifications)
The main objective of this group is to collect all the interesting tools related to music stats that are scattered around last.fm
"The way in which you make a desirable item of quality in the world of bits is not the same way in which you make a desirable item of quality in the world of atoms. One cannot seek to replace the other. It simply jostles it about a bit in the mix of avail
- Radiohead 'In Rainbows' - What price did you choose? | What price did you choose? whatpricedidyouchoose.com · Archived on
If you have pre-ordered or intend to order the download version of Radiohead's new album In Rainbows and are curious to know what price others chose, take part in the survey.
- russell davies: block ice and propane russelldavies.typepad.com
"What's more encouraging about the internet and music are the ways that the smaller bands and less well known musicians can find new ways to have careers and offer their music. One lovely example is this site from Erik Friedlander, promoting his Block Ice
- Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends at FISTFULAYEN fistfulayen.com · Archived on
A brief, twenty minute presentation to some friends in the music industry about why it’s time we pay closer attention to consumer needs when it comes to digital music.
- Design Observer: writings about design & culture designobserver.com
I’ve discovered a grim-faced resistance movement amongst dozens of tiny record labels determined to hang onto physical packaging and expressive cover art, no matter what.
- Releasing Your Music: More Tips From Drowned In Sound · Now Form A Band nowformaband.last.fm · Archived on
The future of record labels and why online battle of the band competitions produce “an endless reservoir of shit”.
Five alternative models for selling music, many of which are actually being tested by artists, entrepreneurs, and even the major record labels themselves.
Every different iteration of these new music strategies are uncritically assessed in the news media as an artist ‘giving away’ their music for free. When, in actual fact, mostly that’s not what’s going on.
Love the smell of warm vinyl in the morning? Russ Parsons, co-founder of London's Uncharted Audio imprint, talks to Spannered about his fondness of the black stuff and of the label's current Signals project.
- Nine Inch Nails Help Seal Record Industry’s Coffin techcrunch.com
Highly popular Industrial Rock Band Nine Inch Nails have announced that as of today they are free agents, and will not be using the services of a record company in the future.
- Releasing Your Music: Tips From Drowned In Sound · Now Form A Band nowformaband.last.fm · Archived on
"Releasing music is a real responsibility as you’re dealing with people’s creativity and in some cases the starts of their careers – the last thing an act needs is a false start or early over-exposure before they’ve developed into being something
"The next time you tag something cheese on toast or woopwoop you might actually cause some researchers somewhere out there sleepless nights while they are trying to understand what kind of music those tags define." Oops!
Assume this is a custom group page. Hadn't realised that was on offer...
- Radiohead to give away new album - Telegraph telegraph.co.uk
It is likely that many of its millions of die-hard fans will be unable to resist buying the box-set, available in December, while Radiohead will not be required to share its profits with either a record label or shops.
- YACHT: Maker Of Fine Grunge Musics & Hugs. teamyacht.com
Good music and great example of self-promotion; the guy is everywhere without being annoying.
There is, by my estimation something of the order of twenty, possibly up to fifty times as much money to be made in the retrieval and reissue of lost gems as there is in releasing new recordings by new artists.
Some background on last.fm, including information on Power Plays.
- TuneCore: Welcome tunecore.com
TuneCore has arrangements with leading digital music retailers that let us place your music in their online stores and subscription services. You get 100% of the money that your music earns.
Last.fm [...] is launching a PR campaign in the guise of an initiative to get unsigned and independent bands using online tools to build their careers.
- TV Torrents — When Piracy Is Easier Than Purchase slashdot.org
"As a musician [...] I've often thought about this. I've come to the realization that the price factor is a "problem" that is going to grow exponentially as time moves forward."
Last.fm is a pretty simple way to listen to tunes, but there are a few quick and dirty ways you can oomph it up a little.
"The loudness war, what many audiophiles refer to as an assault on music (and ears), has been an open secret of the recording industry for nearly the past two decades and has garnered more attention in recent years as CDs have pushed the limits of loudnes
I created this video last night. The music is a song called “Zukunft” by Estonian band Fuck Yuo I Am A Robot, which I also discovered while surfing around the web last night.
- russell davies: music futures russelldavies.typepad.com
That seems like a future for the music industry, doesn't seem a bad future. Just not a lot of role in it for large record companies.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Radiohead's OK Computer we've asked some of our favorite musicians to participate in a song-by-song covers compilation.
- LastGraph: Welcome lastgraph.aeracode.org
LastGraph is a wavegraph generator for Last.fm. Give us a username and some dates, and our highly-trained rendering servers will crunch away and produce a lovely graph of your listening habits.
The Mainstream-O-Meter calculates your mainstreamness by comparing the listener count of your favorite bands to the average listener count of the five bands who have the most listeners among Last.fm-users.
Users download songs, with the starting price at free. When downloads pick up for popular songs, the price starts to rise, all the way up to $0.99. If a song gets to $0.30 or so, you know its popular.
- Fuck Yuo I Am a Robot fuckyuoiamarobot.com
- MyspaceMP3.org - Download Music from MySpace myspacemp3.org
- Bleep Sónar 2007 bleep.com
3 compilations themed around Sónar 2007, programmed and selected by the directors of the festival. Available exclusively [at] Bleep.com.
- Von Südenfed - Fledermaus Can't Get It youtube.com
Mark E. Smith and Mouse on Mars, together at last!