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"If my entire record label made the same as or possibly even half as much as a single “pay if you..."

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:08:23 -0800

“If my entire record label made the same as or possibly even half as much as a single “pay if you want to” initiative from crazy band out in the UK, I might be a little unsure of my business strategy as well.”

- Warner Music Group: Going the Way of the Dodo

"Make it Play is a simple tool for MP3 bloggers and listeners, which makes any page that links to..."

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:05:08 -0800

“Make it Play is a simple tool for MP3 bloggers and listeners, which makes any page that links to MP3s into a slick and simple music player. Once the Make it Play bookmarklet is installed, listening to your favorite music blogs as non-stop playlists is as easy as clicking one button.”

- Make it Play / Grabb.it

"I hope that the music industry recognizes that word of mouth is a far more powerful, much cheaper..."

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:01:26 -0800

“I hope that the music industry recognizes that word of mouth is a far more powerful, much cheaper and longer-lasting force than short-term saturation when it comes to selling records. I will buy a disc based on a positive recommendation from a friend five times out of 10, eight if I hear a track I like. Ads on TV, radio, magazines, billboards do little more than raise a Q rating; they sure don’t motivate me to buy. However, in the past two months I’ve spent over $100 on music that I wouldn’t have bought without it being first exposed by a music blog.”

- The Morning News - Roundtable: Mp3 Bloggers by The Editors

"Without permanence you slip off the search engines. Without permanence, bold ideas like ‘news..."

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:01:40 -0800

“Without permanence you slip off the search engines. Without permanence, bold ideas like ‘news as conversation’ fall away, because you’re shutting down the conversation before it has barely started. Without permanence, you might be on the web, but you’re certainly not part of it.”

- PressThink: Guest Writer Simon Waldman: The Importance of Being Permanent

"Transforming the music player into one that sees the whole Internet as its music library recognizes..."

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:32:54 -0800

“Transforming the music player into one that sees the whole Internet as its music library recognizes that almost all aspects of the music player experience—including sharing music with friends, can be composed of interactions with information.”

- Juxtaprose - Playing digital music as information

Iron and Wine - Such Great Heights —- Something is wrong...

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:31:20 -0800

Iron and Wine - Such Great Heights

—- Something is wrong with the Lightnet…

"the Net train has left the station, there’s constant evolution, and the record labels haven’t even..."

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:36:55 -0800

“the Net train has left the station, there’s constant evolution, and the record labels haven’t even packed their bags. You wonder why they’re so far behind?”

- Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Microsoft/Facebook

"Music kind of sucks. Nobody’s into being a musician. Everybody’s getting their mogul on. You’ve been..."

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:16:57 -0800

“Music kind of sucks. Nobody’s into being a musician. Everybody’s getting their mogul on. You’ve been so infiltrated by this corporate mentality that all the time you’d spend getting great songs together, you’re busy doing nine other things that have nothing to do with art. You know how shitty Stevie Wonder’s songs would have been if he had to run a fuckin’ clothing company and a cologne line?”

- Chris Rock On The Music Business (via Lefsetz Letter)

"Aggregators, such as now exists for indie record labels, such as IODA and CDBABY, can do hundreds of..."

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:46:34 -0800

“Aggregators, such as now exists for indie record labels, such as IODA and CDBABY, can do hundreds of deals and focus on nothing but rights licensing, enabling competition. 90% of the deals won’t make money for the rights holders, but if the rights holders outsource the task, this doesn’t matter. Amazon’s mp3 store would never have gotten off the ground if it weren’t for IODA and CDBABY, who provided DRM-free music for sale to a massive catalog, allowing Amazon to create a creditable competitor to iTunes. The alternative scenario, if the licenses aren’t granted, is piracy everywhere, with consumers obtaining all the content they want, illegally, and no revenue for the rights holders. Monopolies or piracy everywhere? Certainly we want a 3rd alternative.”

- buckman’s magnatune blog: The New Monopolies

"Slow Dudes is not copyrighted or owned by myself or any record company. I’ve seen lots of..."

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:54:30 -0800

“Slow Dudes is not copyrighted or owned by myself or any record company. I’ve seen lots of people struggle to release music on their own tiny record labels, only to make 50 bucks in the end and sell 10 cds. I would rather share what I have made with more people in the most direct way possible. All I ask is that you pass on this music to someone else if you like it.”

- SLOW DUDES

http://grabb.it/playlists/cac020a4a612-slow-dudes

"You guys have it all wrong. Separating traffic of all kinds is what got us into this mess. You need..."

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:32:53 -0800

“You guys have it all wrong. Separating traffic of all kinds is what got us into this mess. You need to get rid of all of the separations: Rip up the curbs, remove all lane markers, everything. Make the whole damn public space from storefront to storefront a general use area. Cars, bikes, people, hotdog carts, cafe tables, streetlights, shrubberies, busses and cabs, all in a big mess. It’ll be chaotic, but it will be slow and safe.
posted by OldReliable at 2:00 PM on November 5”

- Peddling toward Utopia | MetaFilter

"Neither do we need more SVG plug-ins, or Google cross-browser libraries. Workarounds are no longer..."

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:58:54 -0800

“Neither do we need more SVG plug-ins, or Google cross-browser libraries. Workarounds are no longer acceptable.”

- Burningbird » We Can’t Afford Another Browser War

"The paradigm in the music business has shifted and as an artist and a businesswoman, I have to move..."

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:14:25 -0700

“The paradigm in the music business has shifted and as an artist and a businesswoman, I have to move with that shift. Live Nation has offered me a true partnership and after 25 years in the business, I feel I deserve that. I’ve never wanted to think in a limited way, and with this new partnership, the possibilities are endless. Who knows how my albums will be distributed in the future?”

- Madonna

(If It’s Retail, Is It Still Rock? - New York Times)

"I could make an argument that open music won’t have it’s break out moment through these massive..."

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:59:30 -0700

“I could make an argument that open music won’t have it’s break out moment through these massive online catalogs. They will break through taste sharers at which point the only services necessary for the artist are paypal and a remote host. Who is cultivating the taste-sharer?”

- how is an artist services company different than a record label? (#5) « the Wordpress of Lucas Gonze
comment by Victor.

MySpaceTV: Reverse Dotty: “Egg Room” by alex m.

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:39:43 -0700

MySpaceTV: Reverse Dotty: “Egg Room” by alex m.

myplasticheart : Grabbit : DIY

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:20:55 -0700

myplasticheart : Grabbit : DIY

"Yes, the future is controlled by those familiar with keyboards and mice, not radio payoffs. If you..."

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:10:53 -0700

“Yes, the future is controlled by those familiar with keyboards and mice, not radio payoffs. If you make the music, align yourself with new, honest businessmen. With transparent accounting. Who love your MUSIC! Fans…keep acquiring the music the way you want to consume it. That’s the ONLY WAY change will happen. The labels don’t want to lead, they follow at best. A buck a track is bullshit. Ten bucks a month from EVERYBODY is a better business model. But the labels will only allow this if they’ve got CONTROL, if it’s a RENTAL MODEL! There IS NO CONTROL! Face it! The genie can’t be put back in the bottle. Deal with reality old farts. The field is wide open for young entrepreneurs. Who’ll control the filter, what to listen to, as radio continues to falter, and will control sales, when music is paid for once again.”

- Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » The Revolution

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Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:33:53 -0700

People are talking about Vincent Delerm - Il Fait Si Beau

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Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:33:45 -0700

People are talking about Julia Kent - Idlewild

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Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:23:26 -0700

People are talking about Asa - Jailer

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