“EMI Records is offering a set of all of the band’s past studio albums and one live album in a number of formats, including uncompressed WAV files on a custom Radiohead Bear USB drive.” for only $167…..! Weird. If you own the CDs already you’ve essentially already got WAV files.
Thanks to Nick and Gizmodo for [...]
This was once the future - the Seattle monorail
After spending the last 3 days with various friends and acquaintances from my past days in the music industry and having made friends with some new, young web pioneers, I came to some more thoughts about new G4 music and its distribution.
01. We need to make [...]
Pic from Mojib.
I enjoy reading John Winsor’s posts. They are concise and get quickly to the point, such as this one about influencers and the Lululemon yoga clothing company. Last week he turned his attention to Radiohead and made another good point, although it’s one we musicians have known for a while; “Radiohead is [...]
Musicians are looking for an alternative. Their managers may be the answer. So goes the call out on a piece over at Business Week written by Jon Fine. I suppose the question here is - Where have Jon Fine and his business magazine cohorts been? What didn’t they get as the music consumer fled the [...]
After much f*^%ing around, which included downloading Internet Explorer for this here Intel Mac machine, I managed to transfer my funds to Paypal who I imagine will then take their cut and pass the rest on to Non-Existent Records [not a pun, that's the label's name] who in turn will credit the account of one [...]
Info and lyrics here. Discuss.
Radiohead - Faithless, The Wonder Boy [MP3]
I’m getting a little tired of articles like this, Is Radiohead screwing it’s fans? Here’s why I think it’s a non-issue - 1. The MP3s could have been had for free so in that scenario no one gets screwed and 2, the audiophiles are not always right. I think it’s presumptious on their part [...]
As I’m writing I recall walking into the bar of a restaurant in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles the day I first heard Radiohead’s OK Computer. It was roughly August 1997 and I ran straight into the radio promotions rep of Capitol Records [who shall remain nameless.] I grabbed his hand and shook [...]