#music (595 links)
- THE FEATURED ARTISTS COALITION featuredartistscoalition.com
The Featured Artists' Coalition campaigns for the protection of performers' and musicians' rights. We want all artists to have more control of their music and a much fairer share of the profits it generates in the digital age.
- MySpace Music Puts The Industry On The Right Track techcrunch.com
"So why is the experience just an 8/10? For now only U.S. users can access the new music content [...] there’s lots of work to do on the product itself. There’s no way to share public playlists, for example. And unlike iMeem, MySpace Music doesn’t yet offer the ability to embed the music player into other sites. Also, my browser crashed repeatedly tonight while I was testing the service." 8/10? Talk about ratings inflation.
- Xfm Uploaded xfmuploaded.co.uk
Xfm's unsigned band network. Bands can create a homepage, upload songs, post gig info, build a gallery and receive a unique Xfm Uploaded web address. They might even get played on Xfm itself.
- Bandcamp bandcamp.mu
Looks nice. "Bandcamp isn’t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. We power a site that’s yours. So instead of our logo plastered between banner ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your name, your URL."
- SoundUnwound soundunwound.com
New music site from IMDb and Amazon; pulls data from Musicbrainz, Wikipedia and various other places.
- Welcome - SoundCloud soundcloud.com
We got fed up with the crappy tools available for sending and receiving music and felt we’d do things a little different. This is our version of how things should be.
"Synthpop, wonky techno and electronica from a selection of Uncharted Audio artists and their friends." I made this.
Impressed by Ghostly International; how a record label site should work.
- nodes.fm nodes.fm
A freshly launched elective payment music site. Artists upload their music and listeners electively pay the artist what they want to download their albums.
- How can I sell mp3s from my website? | New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
- What’s the best way to manage a fan list? | New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
"Inside the CrowdFire pavilion, event attendees could upload their photos, video, and text to a new site that made it possible for people not in attendance to experience the event." Not entirely convinced.
- Opentape opentape.fm
"A free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web. Upload songs (via web or FTP), reorder, rename, customize the style, and share what you like on other sites with an embeddable player.
Driven by iTunes and the iPod, Gen Y has a voracious appetite for digital music, ring tones and all things mobile.
- track locker brainwashed.com
Hard to find Luke Vibert tracks.
- Orange RockCorps orangerockcorps.co.uk
You give 4 hours of your time to your community, and you Get Given 1 ticket to a gig featuring the best acts around. You can't buy a ticket. You have to earn this ticket.
- Minotaur Shock minotaurshock.com
New Minotaur Shock album on 4AD: "Instead of doing a Radiohead and asking you to pay what you think the music is worth, I have decided to try and explain what I feel the music is worth, and explain my reasoning. Of course, in an ideal world I would charge you £20.00 per track, but I’m a realist."
Imeem is the third-largest social network in the United States after MySpace and Facebook; and it's now the No. 1 streaming music site in the US. That puts it above one of our favorites, CBS-owned last.fm.
- People's Music Store peoplesmusicstore.com
New mp3 shop with a twist; users set up their own shopfronts using site's catalogue. Ex-Bleep people involved, apparently.
- Revamped Last.fm boasts 'smartest' ads on the web - Times Online technology.timesonline.co.uk
Last.fm, which announces a major relaunch today, will start showing advertising that can tap into the community features of the site, making adverts more engaging, the site said.
- What's the best way to include album art? | Ask Metafilter ask.metafilter.com
If I'm making an album available on the web, whats the best album art file names and dimensions to include with the download? Is it worth it to include a playlist file?
- Big Six UK ISPs Capitulate To Music Industry slashdot.org
Fantastic comment on music industry/illegal downloads/self-promotion on Slashdot.
- Should I use auto-friend-adders? | New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
"Maybe building a street team of trusted individuals who are tapped into powerful networks, and enabling and rewarding them to evangelise in quiet, enthusiastic tones on your behalf is better than gathering as many random MySpace accounts as you can find
- Slashdot | Big Six UK ISPs Capitulate To Music Industry tech.slashdot.org
"Britain's six leading internet providers have signed a Government-led agreement to stamp out illegal music file sharing." Bah.
- Jonathan Coulton » Blog Archive » How I Did It jonathancoulton.com
Since the big NY Times Magazine article a lot of just-starting indie musicians have been writing to ask about how I made all of this happen.
- Lo Recordings Music Licensing loeditions.com
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 – Groups at Last.fm last.fm
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.
- Listen – Last.fm | AOL Radio radio.aol.co.uk
"Welcome to the new AOL Radio service powered by Last.fm!" Hmmm.
- Click opera - In which I applaud The Chap imomus.livejournal.com
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.
- 30+ Essential Music Industry Resources & Links - MusicbizHacks.com musicbizhacks.com
- pool radio: Last.fm radio stations poolradio.org
- 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