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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…
Nth Octave
Check out NthOctave for a dose of straight-up, hype-free music BUSINESS business.
TuneRecycler
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]
The Publicist Paradox
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Clear Channel Has It Right
You heard me! 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…