January 2008
Music Blog Zeitgeist of 2007 / The Hype Machine →
“1. Not all P2P downloading is illegal. Some people may be downloading a digital...”
– Why the Music Industry is Lying to You - ReadWriteWeb
Phosphorescent - "A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise"... →
“Pitchfork Media is looking for some obnoxious hipster scum to beat up in the...”
– Pitchfork: Pitchfork Seeks Administrative Intern in NYC Office
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway...”
– Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
.: yvynyl :. →
The "Work From Home" Generation -... →
“Performers thrive on attention, and sometimes admit that it’s an addiction; now,...”
– Amy Winehouse - Celebrity Breakdowns - New York Times
Srvivial of the Fittest
I was just looking at my Tumblr Dashboard, going from page to page, thinking, Shit, there is too much stuff in here, I can’t keep up! Then I remembered, I can just stop following a few of them, until the bandwidth is reasonable again. Tumblr is a rare website whose social network has real meaning. If you just accumulate “friends”, your experience will become unusable. I current...
Pitchfork: The Heath Ledger/Nick Drake Connection →
“If you’re building something you’d actually like people to use, you’d better...”
– Mickipedia » Customer Service is the New Marketing
Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X... →
Pitchfork Forkcast: New Music: Eric Carbonara:... →
My good buddy Eric featured in Pitchfork today! FTW!
“When you factor in all of the used vinyl that changes hands at record fairs,...”
– New Vinyl Sales Rose Fifteen Percent in 2007 | Listening Post from Wired.com
WatchNiagara in the Studio at honeymoonmusic.com
a prediction
This year, musicians will begin releasing music in a new format: The iPhone App. You download and install the app, which gives you a self-contained music/visual experience. When you want to play the album, you tap its icon on your home screen. Since you can now create multiple home screens, this is feasible. Of course, this depends on the capabilities of the iPhone SDK… — jakoblodwick
Watch(via Pop!Casts)
Apes & Androids' Blood Moon is now for sale →
It’s excellent. The shopping cart itself is excellent, too (fine work by Patrick Moberg and ZK). If every band had this simple and beautiful an experience to sell their music online I’d be spending way more money on MP3s. Bonus points for encoding with LAME. Doomchoppers! — jstn
