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- Releasing Your Music: More Tips From Drowned In Sound · Now Form A Band nowformaband.last.fm
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.
- Everyone wants to be Radiohead at New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
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
"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.
- 3. Your history is interesting at New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
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.
- So... no more FM, then? at New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
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.
- TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Last.fm wants bands to use Web tools uk.techcrunch.com
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."
- Technophilia: Fifteen Last.fm Power Tweaks - Lifehacker lifehacker.com
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.
- IEEE Spectrum: The Future of Music spectrum.ieee.org
"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
- art | Artifacting artifacting.com
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.
- stereogum presents...OK X: A Tribute to OK Computer stereogum.com
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.
- Last.fm-Mainstream-O-Meter mainstream.vincentahrend.com
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!
- Cursor Miner - Baby Universe youtube.com
Baby - a vast parisitic cultural organism feeding off the love expounded in pop songs.
— blog.myspace.com/cursorminer
- baby - blog.myspace.com/cursorminer blog.myspace.com
Baby - a vast parisitic cultural organism feeding off the love expounded in pop songs.
I've been trying to get hold of this album by ex-Sidi Bou Said Claire Lemmon for ages now. I swear it doesn't exist.
- VIVA-RADIO viva-radio.com
- http://allcrazystyle.com/ allcrazystyle.com
"Enter your last.fm and upcoming.org usernames and we'll keep track of the artists you listen to and let you know if they're coming to your town." Shame it's broken.
- The Polyphonic Spree - The Quest For The Rest questfortherest.com
Is this a ripoff of that flash movie floating around a few years back or is it by the same people?
- Welcome | Soundclash.org reggae radio, home to Clash Hi-Fi soundclash.org
100+ hours of downloadable & playlisted radio shows
- www.myspace.com/worldsbestyoungband myspace.com
The Next Big Thing is the BBC's hunt for the WORLD’S BEST YOUNG BAND.
- .:: DDF ::. digital-distortions.co.uk
Free music for download, including tracks from Cursor Miner and Si Begg
- digilog.gr (net)label | diginet005 digilog.gr
Free LJ Kruzer netlabel release: "Sunday Life EP".
- sonicSQUIRREL.net - netlabels :::: 70107.7833333 minutes of music 1376333 listened tracks so far sonicsquirrel.net
A platform and distribution channel for netlabels. All music available on this website is free to download according to the terms of the netlabel.