March192010
Is Indie Dead? »
“But then, like a well-meaning pet lover who takes in a few strays, indie suddenly found its house overrun with weird cats and smelling like piss.”
If you’re a music lover and you haven’t read this article yet, you fail.
Reblogged from Hype Tumblr.
March142010
March132010
A day in the life of New York City, in miniature.
March112010
Bix Beiderbecke’s golden cornet made by Vincent Bach in New York, 1927…
(Source - the ever excellent If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, via the also excellent Bix’s Diary whimsy at The Beiderbecke Affair)
Reblogged from minor jive.
Pink Floyd, Queen May Ditch EMI as Buyout ‘Implodes’ (Update2) - Bloomberg.com
File under: meeting expectations
Reblogged from Music, Technology, Art, Economy.
March102010
Pink Floyd Suing EMI Label Over Online Royalties »
The band is asking for clarification to their more than 10- year-old recording contract with EMI, Pink Floyd’s lawyer, Robert Howe, said at a hearing in a London court today. When their contract was negotiated in 1998 and 1999, “both parties were faced with a whole new world of potential exploitation,” Howe said.
“It was unclear whether record companies would be selling direct to the consumer or through retailers,” Howe said. Apple Inc.’s online music retailer iTunes “wasn’t launched in the U.K. until 2004. These negotiations were taking place six years before that.”
