What Happens When A Song Is Played On Xfm Scotland? from Xfm Scotland on Vimeo.
Some things just make me happy….

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A post from Nilina Mason-Campbell. It’s Vancouver B.C theme week for me this week! I spent much of last week up in B.C. with but one question on my mind: is Vancouver, BC the next Portland? It seriously seems to be a city on the verge of exploding. There are [...]

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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 [...]

Portland bands have to pay a third party, Sonicbids, to apply for a slot at this year’s MusicFestNW [this may have been the case last year too.] You’d think after the debacle with the CMJ conference where folks paid Sonicbids to enter the lottery and apparently no one from CMJ bothered to listen to the [...]

Tyler Ferrin is a member of Portland supergroup (no, really, there are up to 10 of them on stage) Typhoon and co-founder of Boy Gorilla Records. He’s also known to throw down 2 hour freestyle rap sessions on long drives and boasts a keen knowledge of Super Nintendo games.
JR: What’s your power animal?
TF: Otter. [...]

Richard Nash from Soft Skull Press sent out a link to this speech by Mike Shatzkin on “The Future of Books for Publishers and Booksellers,” calling it “dead-on.” There are certainly some key insights here: the vertical arrangement of publishing online (as opposed to the horizontality of old-school publishing), acknowledgment of the file as the [...]

Grand Theft Auto IV sold 6 million copies in its first week at $60 a pop in the USA. Globally it brought in $500 million. That outstrips all of the first weeks music CD sales from top artists since 1991. Here’s the top 5 list of those week one sales in units not dollars:
1. ‘N [...]