Gonzales Playing At The ICA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmiWHLx_v4c
Is this it? With Jamie Liddell and more notably Feist’s recent inclusion to the fame academy I’m just wondering if arguably the most talented and certainly the most entertaining of the same clan is finally to hit the big time. He’s doing a show at the ICA in London tonight. It’s sold out but if […]
Madonna Premiers New Single Through SunSilk Advert
Interesting moves from the most innovative* girl/woman/old lady of pop (sorry, ma’am). Madonna’s chosen to premier her new single through SunSilk’s latest ad campaign. The new song, “4 Minutes” featuring Justin Timberlake and producer du jour Timbaland, sounds like something Diplo might have thrown aside, but hey, it’s about advertising funded programming (AFP) these days.
To […]
‘Silicon Valley Hippies Destroying Music’: U2 Manager Misses The Point Entirely
Following on from the Qtrax debacle, we now have more hilarity from the MIDEM conference. This time it comes from Paul McGuinness, who has managed U2 very successfully for 30 years. His speech titled “The Online Bonanza: Who is making all the money and why aren’t they sharing it?” has been covered elsewhere, but I […]
Qtrax: 25 Million Free Tracks? Or Pie In The Sky?
The Times reported today a news story claiming a new service, Qtrax, would allow users to download 25 million music tracks for free on an advertising sponsored basis, with full backing from all four major music labels.
With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly […]
The People’s Music Store; A Ray of Light in the Morass of Weird Music News
In the midst of all of this chaotic music news (most of it profoundly annoying), I found a mysterious email in my inbox, inviting me to sign up for the beta release of something called the People’s Music Store. It’s the latest brainchild of the boys from Pitch7, who have some impressive online music creds […]
A Nation Of Criminals: How Burning CDs & DRM Are Changing The Music Business
I’ve always been under the impression that it was legal in the UK to use my iPod, and legal to copy music from CDs I’d purchased onto it. I own roughly 1000 CDs, and have recently gone through the pain of ‘ripping’ all of them to my home computer in an effort to reduce the […]
Arcade Fire - “Neon Bible” Interactive Music Video
I love it when Music gets all progressive. It means that boundaries are being pushed. Recently we had the lovely Flickr Music Video Mash Up and then Prince stepped his album sales game up by offering it free with the Daily Mail, or with every purchase of a concert ticket. Then in swayed Radiohead with […]
Radiohead Break Free
On Monday, Radiohead announced the release of their new album ‘In Rainbows‘ . Now free from their contract with EMI records, they’ve decided to release the album themselves in two separate formats; one being a ‘discbox’ edition, consisting of the new album on CD, two vinyl records and artwork, and the other being a digital […]
Does Giving Music Away Make More Sense Than Selling It?
The big music news today is that The Charlatans are giving away their fourth album for free via download on Xfm’s web site. Why? They don’t make enough money via CD sales anyway, and giving away the music for free, they reckon, will give them a bigger fan base and increase the number of people […]
(Why Should I Let You) Entertain Me
There’s an interesting article in The Guardian today which looks at the recent spate of bad news that has hit the music retail sector, including the very sad collapse of Fopp (where I used to work) and HMV’s disappointing financial results.
There was one quote that really stuck with me from Stephen Godfrey, store director at […]
