Prototypes free mp3 from upcoming album Synthetique

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

More promo in the inbox today, this time from Minty Fresh. They sent me a link to grab the free MP3 from French outfit, Prototypes, a track called L’Amour, L’Amour, L’Amour from their upcoming album, Synthetique. It’s quite charming, y’know, in a French synth pop kind of way. I haven’t heard the full-length so no [...]

A Five Point Plan to Save the Music Business

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

It seems to me that the music industry and its advisors move at a glacial pace when it comes to embracing the internet and new business models. There have been remedies at hand for years now, I would say at least a decade, but no one in the music industry has made a serious attempt [...]

music blogs will not be the new record labels

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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 [...]