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More Radiohead Than Radiohead
June 6, 2008 – 7:09 pm
Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.
Click the “Big Ideas” link there to get the story.
Bonus three-degrees-from-ATL feature: the apparent winner (under suspicion) of the radiohead remixed contest, young mix artist SPOR is remixer/pals/label-mates on UKs Lifted with aggro drum-n-bass trio Evol Intent… from A-town!
1983 All Over Again
February 21, 2008 – 1:36 pm
Ah, 1983, I remember it well. I was selling 45 rpm, 7-inch singles for CBS Records (Michael Jackson’s Thriller had just been released) and the folks from headquarters brought in a new fangled thing called a Compact Disc, with a just-off-the-boat Japanese Sony CD player with a voltage converter. I think the CD they played [...]
The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright
February 5, 2008 – 1:47 pm
Pro Sound News has published an article about the latest statistics for digital music downloading by “tweens”, those children between 9 and 14. While the slant in this article is decidedly negative (it is a trade publication after all), the stats show that most kids of this age group are using paid or legal downloading [...]
Grass Just As Broke On The Other Side Of The Fence
January 7, 2008 – 9:31 am
Natalie Merchant made headlines half a decade ago when she decided to leave the confines of a major label contract and go it alone, setting up her own independent label for her releases. Seen as a maverick move by the status quo, Merchant and her manager stated at the time that she would ultimately make [...]
The best article on the future of music, ever.
December 20, 2007 – 8:04 pm
I met David Byrne twice. Once when the Talking Heads played the Boomer Theater in Norman, Oklahoma on tour for their second album. We sat up in the old projection room aka green room sipping Heineken’s with the rest of the band. And once a few years later in the Stop Making Sense days when [...]
Worthless music is killing the business
November 19, 2007 – 9:15 am
An undercurrent to the whole music industry crash and burn has been this implied, and sometimes quite overt, notion that the kids today “just don’t value music” and this somehow is the reason why usage of peer-to-peer networks has increased. It seems that the less and less music is valued, the more and more music [...]
King of the Jungle
November 16, 2007 – 10:42 am
Some new elephants are emerging from the music business model jungle. Concert promoter Live Nation, fresh off a Madonna acquisition (see earlier blog), has added more merchandising to its growing empire.
Concert giant Live Nation has now acquired merchandising group Signatures Network for $79 million, according to deal points disclosed Thursday. Signatures, a specialist in [...]
Different Skies 2007
October 12, 2007 – 11:47 am
Different Skies is an electronic space music festival, a workshop for artists in these and related experimental music genres, a working vacation, an intensive and rewarding creative environment, and many more things. It is held here at Arcosanti, which was recently featured in a New York Times article.
Jim will be performing at Different Skies 2007 [...]