Tag: record label
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RIP Trish Keenan, Broadcast singer
OK if you jumped into a time machine to 11 years ago you’d have probably caught me listening to Broadcast – The Noise Made By People or Work or Non Work…one of my favourite bands at the time, and a band I’d recently rediscovered as I downloaded one of their excellent videos for possible use…
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I’ve been quoted in a Mashup PHD Dissertation…
…by way of GYBO and a lot of other mashup/bootleg peeps including interview with a lot of the US bootleggers! Liam McGranahan’s dissertation “Mashnography: Creativity, Consumption, and Copyright in the Mashup Community” as part of his doctorate from Brown University is available here, a ‘mashnography’ study into the ethnography of the bootleg scene. BTW timbearland…
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Music and Your Message (In the Hour of Chaos)
Been thinking about posting an article about Music Marketing 101 for ages, in two minds to post it. For one, marketing and advertising as Hicks said IS the devils work – and I should know I work in this world. Why should I help Satan’s Little Helpers? The other is that as someone who hasn’t…
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Google’s ‘blogocide’ deletes music blogs
(created with FAT’s great Google Tag script – love the ZEVS style one too) Apparently Google has deleted entirely several music blogs entirely for infringement of copyright – even the ones that posted tracks with permission from the record label, artists or management. I commented on this Guardian article, thought it bore repeating (and extending)…
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Why Radiohead weren’t revolutionary
A lot has been written about Radiohead’s ‘radical’ policy with ‘In Rainbows’ last year, letting the fans pay what they like. It seemed like a bold move at the time , if not original. Trent Reznor and others had done it first – but it was interesting because Radiohead were at the time such a…