#music
The Problem With Music
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
Steve Albini's breakdown of exactly how much a band can expect now to earn in a normal record indust...
http://musicmachinery.com/2009/03/26/help-my-ipod-...
An excellent SXSW talk/article on the problem with recommendation engines.
http://www.sleevelessness.com/post/89700982/last-n...
My former colleague Phil has recently won a well deserved award for a very clever means of producing...
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/mu...
Not driectly realted to this link, but I was chatting with a friend whose job places him firmly on t...
Everyone's already blogged this pile of ace. I'm blogging it as context for another link. If you'v...
http://mashable.com/2009/02/20/josh-freese-album-p...
Are you paying attention, music business? This is clearly the future of album promotion. I really,...
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/music/productions...
Anyone interested in this? Herzog + weird German Electro sounds like a moral victory to me.
Arvo Part
He got Bill Drummond's recommendation in his new book 17 (about which more another time), and Drummo...
Johnny Hollow
http://www.johnnyhollowmusic.com/indexflash.html
This bunch have one of their two albums for sale via iTunes. Not the same one that's playing on the...
HUMANWINE
A couple of bands via a mate today. Firstly: Humanwine - Dresden Dolls-ish sound, would like to hea...
http://www.last.fm/music/Pogo/
A trip-hop EP 90% made up of samples from Disney's Alice in Wonderland. Superb.
The V: Mixtapes
http://www.thevhive.com/forum/the-v/unread-threads...
A number of excellent mixtapes available for download in here.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxvpr-73U9c
Against my better judgement, I watched Eurovision. This song is bland 90s europop drivel with an "o...
http://www.antilabelblog.com/?p=246
Edinburgh, Dublin and Paris are all possibilities...
Zoundz
http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&acti...
I appear to have been mugged by a musical toy. Still, this ought to be fun.