Portland band, Hockey, prepare to blast the Bay Area
As we noted in the Wal-Mart/Handelman story below, music sales are still in decline and haven’t quite found the bottom yet. Meanwhile retailers are getting creative at least. Insound.com is an online music retailer that focuses on alternative music mostly, if not exclusively, but I admit I [...]
The think tank at Nemo Design
A couple of weeks ago I received an email from the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI). They asked me to remove a music file (MP3) of ‘Silence’ a track from Portishead. Under the rules of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the IFPI has every right to ask me [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Unlike terrestrial radio, Moose Radio doesn’t suck gas nor trample the earth…
Phil Busse invited me to DJ a set for his burgeoning endeavor, the Northwest Institute for Social Change. Here’s their blurb:
“For the past two months, we have hosted 13 college students from around the country—from Boston University, Princeton, Reed. They have been [...]