Category Archives: music
The Last.fm Age/Gender Plot
Stick your last.fm username into this demo and see where you fall on a gender/age plot. This plot shows artists from the chosen top for each of the given users. The positions are determined by the average age and gender … Continue reading
The Brains Behind Bieber
Billboard interviews Scott Braun. Braun is Justin Bieber’s manager. THR: What do you think is the biggest problem plaguing the music business right now? Braun: A lack of understanding that we’re no longer a music business. We’re a multimedia business. … Continue reading
“Most don’t know how to maximize the music purchased from iTunes”
From an iTunes Store review of the Pretty Hate Machine remaster. This was my first Nine Inch Nails CD 10 years ago and now I bought it today on iTunes! The quality of the audio that I’m used to is … Continue reading
Amazon now sells watermarked MP3s
Wired previously reported that personally identifiable information wasn’t stored in Amazon’s MP3s. That doesn’t appear to be true anymore. I saw “Music file contains unique purchase identifier” on Kanye West’s brand new My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy released today for … Continue reading
The Talk Show: Michael Jackson and The Beatles
During Episode 17: Magic Flute of The Talk show John Gruber and Dan Benjamin spend some time trying to figure out who actually owns the rights to The Beatles music, eventually linking to this Snopes article and still not having … Continue reading
More Trouble at Emusic
Indie labels Domino, Merge, and The Beggars Group are pulling their catalog from eMusic. Something about terms. Nobody’s talking specifics. Download Service eMusic Unveils New Pricing Model, Indie Labels Jump Ship : The Record : NPR
Rdio Introduces Rdio Stations
Good for people who just want to hit play and listen to music. My biggest issue with Rdio, however, is the anxiety I face with this nasty “I just deleted your entire queue. Problem?” bug. It’s happened to me once, … Continue reading
More proof that Taylor Swift fans don’t know about P2P
NPR takes a look at Taylor Swift’s record release: David Bakula, the Senior Vice President of Nielsen Entertainment, says that even with an audience as young as Swift’s, you can’t count out the traditional outlets. “How a consumer chooses to … Continue reading
Alex Ross’s Listen To This
Alex Ross starts his new book with the a New Yorker essay from 2004: I hate “classical music”: not the thing but the name. It traps a tenaciously living art in a theme park of the past. It cancels out … Continue reading
Musicians, these are the people you’re trying to sell your music to
Transcribed: Why would anyone buy music from iTunes. They rip off the artist and the customer. 1.29 for a song. There are so many ways to get music without giving apple 70 cents for every song. Piratebay is the way … Continue reading