Boing Boing posted a story about Wal-Mart ending its use of DRM wrappers on its MP3 download service and how, for its customers, there is now the inconvenience of backing up those MP3s by burning them to disc. If the files are not saved that way they will no longer be available via the Wal-Mart [...]
If this is just a PR stunt by Axl Rose’s handlers I have a feeling that the public image of the RIAA will once again be badly damaged. The story here doesn’t even make sense. It appears that a takedown notice was sent to Cogill in June and the songs were removed. Cogill was [...]
Big Mike Sullivan proving that the Genie is out of the bottle…
Ok, more promo MP3s for your listening and downloading pleasure. The Moose is transitioning servers but things seem to have gone smoothly. The reason for the transition is that our traffic has grown exponentially thanks to you our readers and listeners. The one piece [...]
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I am really looking forward to the new album from Jolie Holland. I spent time with her last weekend at Pickathon and had a great conversation about “being in” the music industry from an artists POV. We share the same ideas of what that exactly means. Anyway, [...]
A word and a gift from the fine folks at Hush Records. We are delighted to share this party favor with the rest of the word: DECA: A HUSH 10th Anniversary Compilation. It’s a rare snapshot of an invigorating cross section of artists mostly calling Portland home. The majority of its 28 tracks (tracklist [...]
Starting today, Rhapsody launches a new DRM-free, MP3 downloading service and they’ve also partnered with iLike, MTV Networks and Yahoo. The new service obviously challenges Apple’s iTunes service as Apple sticks to its allegiance to DRM on behalf of the record companies. And given that you can preview an entire MP3 file before you buy [...]
No it doesn’t…
June has almost gone and I haven’t had time to get through all the promo MP3s in the in box yet. The incoming music plugs have remained constant and mostly the quality is very high. Although I have mentioned this many times, I’d like to reiterate - I prefer electronic submissions. I have [...]
Help me with my math! I gave a talk yesterday at U of O, as I mention in the last post, and one of my slides was about how as of March 08 iTunes had sold 170 million iPods according to Wikipedia. As of last September Apple said it had sold 2 billion songs. Apple [...]