On a total tangent, I invite you to visit “Lo-Fi Living,” our sister blog about living a transcendent life on a shoestring budget. We’ve been posting for a few days and it’s starting to feel ripe. (The good kind of ripe.)
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Musician Nissa Ludwig puts a compelling spin on pay-per-download sites. Her LightningCD site not only lets you buy an album for ten bucks, like iTunes, it automates the process of burning that album to disc and printing official cover art and liner notes.
Ludwig may be a little ahead of the curve here. Until someone can [...]
Peter Gabriel’s latest project aims to make digital distribution transparent. [ via Clark Howard ]
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Tower Records files bankruptcy this week. I’m not sure why, given the hefty markup they’re putting on my book!
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Warp Records is launching their own pay-per-download site. What’s different is that they’re just putting straight-up, un-DRM’ed MP3 files out for you to download. And the logic is clear. You can get pirated MP3s anywhere. Wouldn’t you rather skip the hassle and just pay money directly to the label and artist for something you like? [...]
I dunno how the heck I missed this one. Some folks told me about it a few weeks ago, and I didn’t think I wanted to believe that a Clear Channel skunk works project actually had merit…
Indie 103.1 is about as “indie” as Starbucks is “grassroots,” but the crew there is gonna take Clear [...]
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The folks behind DownhillBattle have launched TuneRecycler, an opportunity for Pepsi drinkers with no iTunes access to use their winning bottlecap codes for good. [via PCWorld]
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Whenever folks get in front of an FCC panel to rant about the state of radio, invariably someone gets upset about the lack of independent music on major market radio playlists.
We should be upset about radio consolidation, sure. But not because of music. We should be upset about radio consolidation because it robs [...]
