Artists Paid

fred-wilson:The Sun Smells Too Loud - MogwaiHere’s some...

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:24:54 -0400

The Sun Smells Too Loud - Mogwai
Here’s some lovely instrumentals for your sunday morning paper reading

In Music, Others' Tastes May Help Shape Your Own

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:35:42 -0400

In Music, Others' Tastes May Help Shape Your Own:

The top 10 lists were particularly good in revealing the authors’ taste for variety, intellectual appetite for abstract ideas and willingness to experiment with alternative points of view, a quality psychologists call openness. And a high volume of lyrics in a person’s list seemed to roughly reflect sociability, or extroversion, Dr. Rentfrow said.

"More troubling for Farnsworth than those who downloaded without paying was the tapering interest..."

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:23:09 -0400

“More troubling for Farnsworth than those who downloaded without paying was the tapering interest among fans after a few days, suggesting that the pay-what-you-want model may be good at garnering publicity to create an event but can’t sustain itself. “The big question on my mind is whether this will work in the long run,” Farnsworth said. “How many people will still want to pay for this in six months?””

- Digital download model puts song exposure above sales - Los Angeles Times (via guysketchy)

Buffetlibre's 80s cover project, Rewind, is up... and free to download!

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:20:00 -0400

Buffetlibre's 80s cover project, Rewind, is up... and free to download!:

ericamay:

I already posted my favorite (“Cry Just A Little Bit” by Cloetta Paris) at Tuneage but there’s much, much more goodness to be had including covers by Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Dragonette and The Cloud Room.

buffetlibre (via ericamay)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:19:35 -0400

buffetlibre (via ericamay)

musiclab project

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:13:57 -0400

musiclab project:

nathanemrys:

I think I like studies like this. One on hand it’s really dry, reducing our behavior in places like Tumblr and Vimeo to formulas and Gini coefficients and scatter plots. But that dryness makes me wonder about a couple things that have more to do with love. It makes me wonder about the communities that I want to create or coordinate or explicitly cultivate… and how to make the love and the metrics dance. It also reminds me that it’s good to have places, real or imagined, where none of this matters… places that are just home.
meaninglesssyllables:
“Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial cultural market.”, etc.

"I think the bottom line for me was that I wanted to try something new, screw the challenges. The..."

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:11:48 -0400

“I think the bottom line for me was that I wanted to try something new, screw the challenges. The last thing people need is another music site promising the world and doing more of the same.”

- Chatting with James Miao of The Sixty One over email, love the mindset. (via fascinated)

Updated the muxtape... midyear favorites

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:08:08 -0400

Updated the muxtape... midyear favorites:

ericamay:

The year is past halfway so I figured it was time to sift through what I’ve been listening to and pull out some favorites. Some of this stuff wasn’t new this year but it was new to me because I’m behind the times…
Run Dan Run — Your Name Escapes Me
The Go Find — Dictionary
The Submarines — Brightest Hour
Lilofee — Lock and Key
Cut Copy — Lights and Music
Ladyhawke — Paris Is Burning
Iglu & Hartly — Violent & Young
Islands — Creeper
Plastic Operator — Folder
Coconut Records — Nighttiming
Lykke Li — I’m Good, I’m Gone
Sir Salvatore — Ambalina

sierracolfer:My music myspace. I wrote three of the songs a...

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:03:09 -0400

sierracolfer:

My music myspace. I wrote three of the songs a few years ago and the third is a Howie Day cover. I’m hoping to have some updates soon.
http://www.myspace.com/sierratheindian

"Markets long squandered by the music cartel will open as artists realize they can go direct to their..."

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:20:50 -0400

“

Markets long squandered by the music cartel will open as artists realize they can go direct to their audience, offering multicast access to backstage, rehearsal, recording studio outtakes, and archival performances on demand. 3G and WiFi will combine to create streaming products that mirror and eventually overtake radio, and shift drive-time revenue from broadcast to a more algorithmically intelligent personalized product based on behavior not just of the individual but the peer cloud they inhabit.

Inevitably, the things we do to make money will evolve to follow this new architecture.

”

- Steve Gillmor - Independence Day

joelaz:Ray Charles - America The BeautifulIn celebration of...

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:32:19 -0400

joelaz:

Ray Charles - America The Beautiful
In celebration of July 4th and cover day Friday, Happy Birthday America, from sea to shining sea.
Photo by Stuck in Customs

marco:(via fredseibert)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:15:51 -0400

marco:

(via fredseibert)

MasterCard Campaign Offers Free UMG Downloads

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:31:05 -0400

MasterCard Campaign Offers Free UMG Downloads :

From Billboard:

MasterCard this week launched a campaign with an extensive music component.

As part of a new campaign dubbed “Roots of Rock” from New York ad agency McCann-Erickson the credit card maker is offering MasterCard holders free downloads from the entire Universal Music Group catalog from priceless.com.

SeeqPod takes on Muxtape with `PodLists’ (via...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:28:34 -0400

SeeqPod takes on Muxtape with `PodLists’ (via Musically)

From readwriteweb / Sarah Perez

The music search engine SeeqPod has just announced a new service for music fans: “PodLists.” Because of the massive amount of playable search results available on the SeeqPod service - 12 million at the moment and ever-growing - it can be difficult to find music that you like. Sites like Last.fm rely on social recommendations to help you find new artists, but SeeqPod’s take is a bit different. Instead of launching social features, they’ll be posting fresh, customized playlists to the site’s homepage on a daily basis.
Each PodList will have an identifying theme - for example, today’s include the “SeeqPod Top 20,” “Old School Rap,” and “Funk For Ya Trunk.” The idea is that instead of having social recommendations in place, you can be exposed to more kinds of music by playing a daily playlist that highlights some of the tracks that can be found on SeeqPod. In a way, this also turns SeeqPod into an online radio station of sorts - one where they don’t bombard you with the same tunes over and over again, but one where the station changes identities every day.

tychomusic

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:57:31 -0400

tychomusic

iso50

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:14:00 -0400

iso50

Who's laughing now?

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:40:23 -0400

Who's laughing now?:

jonathan-deamer:

Oasis’s “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory” album has seen a 200% increase in sales since Jay-Z did a mocking cover version of Wonderwall at Glastonbury.

Sock, Vol. 3: High Life - matt

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:20:12 -0400

wesharemusic:

Just in time for the 4th of July I’ve served you up another hearty bowl of soul/rock/sock. There’s some real nuggets tucked in here, so just let this one ride its course. This one just DRIVES! Ok. That’s all I got.
HIGH LIFE (.Zip file, 57.2 MB)
http://www.divshare.com/download/4860751-7b9
Respect -The Soul Survivors
Soul Dance, No. 3 - Carl Holmes and the Commanders
Different Strokes -Syl Johnson
Breaking Out Pt1 -Wild Bill Davis
Hook Line and Sinker - Art Neville
The Price of Love - Little Sherman & the Mod Swingers
Shake and Shingaling, pt. 1 -Gene Waiters
Pass the Hatchet, Pt. 1 - Roger & the Gypsies
Midnight Hour -Little Mac & the Boss Sounds
Everybody’s Got To Change Sometime -Taj Mahal
Why Don’t You Do Your Thing -Jackie Wilson
Do The Whoopie - Sugarpie Desanto
1 2 5 -The Haunted
It’s Not Easy -The Swamp Rats
Own Up Time -The Small Faces
Nothing But a Heartache -The Flirtations
Jumpin’ Jack Flash -Thelma Houston
‘Cause summer’s here and the time is right for playing music in the streets, boy…

Recorded Music Market Share By Label

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:19:45 -0400

aprilini:

31.2% (down .3%) Universal Music Group
20.8% (up.8%) Warner Music Group
24.8% (down .5%) Sony BMG
13.9% (up 1%) Independents
9.4% (down 1%) EMI
(increase/decrease form the year before)
How that for perspective?
From Digital Music News

"I think when you, the listener, get to the point that you’re noticing the production or playing..."

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:19:23 -0400

“I think when you, the listener, get to the point that you’re noticing the production or playing techniques replicated from band to band, that’s the sign that it’s time for the listener to move on to new sounds.”

- Scott from Pretty Goes with Pretty
‘genre fatigue’… it’s real, bitches. Expand your horizons. Here are three suggestions for fantastic music outsides your usual realm:
Benn Loxo du Taccu
Dalston Oxfam Shop
nialler9
Bonus: Songs, by Toad
And no I’m not telling you what they cover. Your job to come to that conclusion yourself.
(via aprilini)