A Spectre Is Haunting Marillion
Saturday, September 13th, 2008This? Oh yeah, we already did that. & it's true what they say - Reverbnation rules the internets!
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This? Oh yeah, we already did that. & it's true what they say - Reverbnation rules the internets!
P2P in Canada
Friday, October 5th, 2007I was interviewed this morning for Global National on the subject of P2P lawsuits by the RIAA. Every time there's some sensational story to be mined, the television media seem to jump. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I tried to stay focused on the Canadian angle, making the points that ...
RIP Tony Wilson
Friday, August 10th, 2007Tony Wilson is dead. For those who don't know, Wilson was the notorious owner of the legendary Factory Records and Haçienda Club in Manchester, UK. As dramatized in the 2000s film 24 Hour Party People, Wilson was also responsible for launching the highly influential Joy Division/New Order constellation, as well ...
AOIR 8 Vancouver, 50 Parties, etc. (Oct. 2007)
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Heya. I am presenting in a panel at AOIR this year (the title of my presentation/paper is "The Technical Micropolitics of the Online Music Industry, 1997-2007", abstract here). For those of you who've followed my blog, you'll know something of what to expect, except that I'll be strictly framing up ...
On Last.fm and royalty payments
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Clear Channel didn't get away with it, and now Last.fm is taking heat for not paying out royalties to independent artists. Last.fm, recently purchased by CBS, is now heating up indie music business blogs with this policy, even though it's been in place since the company started. Why so, asks the ...
FMC, A2IM force Clear Channel to pay royalties to independent musicians
Friday, July 20th, 2007There's some great news in Future of Music Coalition's latest newsletter about Clear Channel's treatment of independent musicians. In just ten short days of campaigning (including blogging, negotiating with the radio giant directly, and filing a Request for a Declaratory Ruling at the FCC) the organization (with help from A2IM) ...
20 Years of Scratch Records
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007There's a pretty good yarn in last Wednesday's Vancouver Courier about Scratch Records, an independent music institution in Vancouver for 20 years now. For those of us old enough to recall Scratch's origins as the-little-indie-store-that-could below street level in Gastown, it's great, and inspiring to see this label/shop/distributor steadfastly navigating ...
Last.fm, CBS and the future of music
Friday, June 1st, 2007OK, I was going to take a lot of time and write a measured and considered manifesto, but in the spirit of the impulsivity, that, according to my friend Jason, haunts, and characterizes the blogosphere, I've decided to have a little blurt and then go enjoy the blistering West Coast ...
Jonathan Coulton, repoproduction, and technological determinism
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007A recent story in the New York Times about the Jonathan Coulton phenomenon (remember - he's the guy who posted a song a week on his blog for a year and so launched an infamous viral campaign interacting with fans who made videos for his songs, and who even recorded ...
More Ado About the Online Independent Music Industry
Sunday, March 11th, 2007A few weeks back I looked at market share figures in the music industry. I've since thrown at the wall a few more numbers from IFPI publications during the period of interest (2002-present) to help substantiate my (perhaps presumptuous) claims about whether independent music is actually doing any better ...
