The first of many articles to describe, on the eve of her new release, what’s up with Ani Difranco.
When Plugging Songs, Don’t Threaten to Plug the Singer
Not the best way to get artists to cover your material.
Non-Comm Stations Among Top Streamers
Sometimes, market forces work in your favor. When AFTRA, the union that includes most voice-over announcers, forced stations to pay extra to use their talent on streaming audio, it pretty much eliminated the benefits of streaming for commercial radio. Non-comms…
Indie Retail Survives and Thrives
Whether it’s our own Schoolkids Records here in Athens, or other indie retail success stories, there’s lots of proof now that a tightly focused, fun independent record store can survive the same dismal market that caused the mighty Tower Records…
Data Loss
I’m suffering a little short-term data/e-mail loss… if you e-mailed me in the past few days and didn’t get a response, kindly resend. Thanks!
Goodbye, Corporate Pop?!
Andre Grey from DEMO has posted one of the most concise, coherent explanations of the current state of music commerce. I don’t know that I agree with him about how swiftly this will happen (I think it will take a…
Lo-Fi Living
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…
LightningCD
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…
Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda…
Peter Gabriel’s latest project aims to make digital distribution transparent. [ via Clark Howard ]
Tower Crumbling
Tower Records files bankruptcy this week. I’m not sure why, given the hefty markup they’re putting on my book!
Warp vs. the 800 Pound (99 pence) Gorilla
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…
Indie 103.1 fm
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…