Last summer I enjoyed Mexican food and beers while Roy Christopher threw some questions at me. Upon reading the result of that discussion now it doesn’t feel so much as an interview as it is two friends discussing the state of “things” over a drink. As Roy writes “Dave’s ideas about the state of the [...]

The thinking shed
I suppose it was inevitable. The same day the Gang of Four news broke I received a letter from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) asking me to comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The IFPI has every right to ask me to comply with the law as it [...]

I became a fan of Australia’s Cut Copy through their online mix tapes which have been made available here and there. Their album Bright Like Neon Love came out in 2004 and this March you can now get Lights and Music which is a remix ep by the look of it. Visit the Cut Copy [...]

Two blog posts dropped into my inbox this week. One from Elliott Van Buskirk’s Wired blog and one from Gerd Leonhard on Digital Music News. Both posts had a similar headline [in fact it could be argued that Leonard's post was identical to Van Buskirk's which was posted 6 months earlier] - MP3 Blogs Could [...]

The party in Montreal went off..pic from Mad Decent blog.
Erykah Badu - Honey (Seiji Remix)
Wale - Friends (M.A.F. Mash up feat. Justice)
James Pants - We’re Through
Eryka Baduh - Real Thing feat. Madlib
Wale - Dangerous Girls (M.A.F. Mash Up)

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In March 2006, Benedict XVI visited the offices of Radio Vaticana at the end of Via della Conciliazione, the wide boulevard in front of St. Peter’s, and went home with an iPod nano, courtesy of the radio staff. The 2-gig nano was engraved with the words “To His Holiness, Benedict XVI” in Italian and was [...]

No Age on the Lamar Bridge at SXSW 08 ©Nilina Mason-Campbell
Things just got a little more confusing. One of Wired’s blogs covered the MySpace/major labels story [it might even turn out to be a non-story] - MySpace has partnered with three of the four major record labels in an effort to create “a one-stop source [...]

Chuck Klosterman weighs in on the decline of the music business but more interestingly chooses to focus on where did the money go - as in if the music biz is down $4 bil who is spending how much on what?
Even if you know nothing about the music industry, you probably know this: People don’t [...]