This article is from a few months ago but I’ve been meaning to link to it for ages. Loved the lede: Ah, it seems like only yesterday when MySpace was the biggest and most important website in the world. I remember attending a music biz pow-wow about five years ago and being told by a [...]
Came across this today. Beautiful acoustic version of Metric’s ‘Help I’m Alive’.
It’s up at Grantland (which is a really nicely design website). This is the type of thing to expect: “I’ve never understood musicians who don’t enjoy doing promotional interviews,” he says. “I just can’t believe it. I always think, ‘Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.’ Because my life [...]
I don’t usually bother posting links here. I’d prefer to use this space for my own writing than spam you with posts raving about the latest YouTube video doing the rounds of email inboxes. (My Facebook Posted Items feed is there for that.) Still, there’s something about the site Muxtape that requires a little more [...]
As regular readers would be aware, I’m a fan of giving Apple money. I like my iPod Nano I bought on my birthday last year and I’m pretty sure my next laptop will be a MacBook of some description. I also took the opportunity to avail myself of some of the DRM-free tracks that went [...]
As I’ve made clear in a few posts to the blog, I believe in DRM-free music. I believe in it so much I’m willing to support the Russian mob and spend $20 on a Damon Albarn side-project I don’t even really want. Yesterday, though, promised to be the end of those dalliances for good when [...]
I’ve been in Japan for a while now and one thing I’m really missing is music. Which isn’t to say that there’s no music in Japan of course. There’s plenty of music, even Western music. Although albums here tend to be more expensive than they would be back home, if you’re willing to go looking [...]
Some are calling it the end of DRM. That’s probably going a bit far. DRM seems too lucrative in the burgeoning markets of ringtones and videos to disappear anytime soon. Still, as far as music albums go, the announcement by EMI that it would be making its entire digital catalgoue available DRM-free was incredible news. [...]
Today I purchased my first music online. Oh sure, I’d set up an account with the Australian iTunes Music Store so that I could grab one of their free tracks but once I realised that the music I bought from the iTMS wasn’t actually going to work with the music player I own I decided [...]