Interesting:
It’s no secret that the music business is willing to try anything (except actually trying to please the consumer somehow) these days, so maybe the idea of a Tupperware-style party in which CDs play…
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Mel sends us:
One piece of MacWorld-related big news that doesn’t involve Steve Jobs’ health: The iTunes Store is apparently going to embrace the idea of dynamic pricing (no more 99-cents-per-song standard) and…
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This is interesting:
In a famous review, Times music critic William Mann analyzed Sgt. Pepper’s using terms from classical music: “the tune of the song is recognizably mixolydian” and so forth. This was a sign of pop’s…
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Found this post:
“Celebration,” “Get Down On It,” “The Wanderer”—the covers sprinkled into the New Year’s Eve set that My Morning Jacket played last week make one wonder if they’re going to try and survive the…
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Just came across this:
Prince has launched LotusFlow3r.com, an “entirely new galaxy” that, it looks like, will be the launching pad for all things Purple in 2009 (the Flash animation promises new tracks by Prince “and…
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This is an interesting post:
Two British researchers have published a study rebuking the “Long Tail” idea that in the digital economy, you can survive by selling less copies of each item, yet more variety of total items. …
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Dave sent us a link to this:
Radiohead’s “gotcha!” release of In Rainbows last year had something of a ripple effect on artists who also appeal to that band’s tech-savvy, sorta-into-paying-for-music fanbase. Jack White’s other…
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Came across this today:
The New York-based label Team Love has decided to offer up select parts of its catalog for free digital download in an effort that it’s referring to as “The Team Love Library.” The label, which has…
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Stacy told us about:
A novel bit of promoting a record’s review landed in our tips inbox earlier today: “Today, renowned and respected indie rock critics Pitchfork Media released a review of Ropechain, the second full…
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James sends us:
It’s difficult to think of a thornier or more complicated issue in copyright law than that brought up by Bopaboo, a startup that purports to provide a forum for consumers to buy and sell used digital…
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