Category: Music
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Get a free Eels live EP (if you do it before the 28th)
Want a free Eels EP? Of course you do. So click on this link and give them your email address before 28th October. The 4-LP Deluxe Vinyl Ltd Edition set of Blinking Lights – which this EP is promoting – is a thing of beauty, and I’m sorely tempted to buy it even though I…
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iTunes: now it’s making graphic designers redundant
What else could explain the sheer half-arsedness of these album covers, from Sugababes and Girls Aloud respectively? Presumably the record industry has thought “hmmm, everybody downloads or rips now, so covers don’t matter. Let’s sack all the designers!” Future pop album covers won’t have images at all. They’ll just say “Fuck you, Steve Jobs” in…
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“There is clearly far more money in touting than in actually being a musician.”
Another interesting post at Broadstuff: …about 40% of the UK ticket market goes through touts (people who buy tickets at face value, typically from organisations that get allocated tickets and then on-sell them). This creates the calculation below, where there is clearly far more money in touting than in actually being a musician.
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Nokia’s “Comes With Music” translated for the UK
Thanks to the ever-entertaining No Rock’n’Roll Fun: Comes Without Music But You Can Pay For Music If You Like. Just Not Too Many Tunes, Eh? Don’t Go Mad Or Anything. Two Songs A Week.
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Three good things and one bad one
Good: The new Christopher Brookmyre, James Lee Burke and Ian Rankin novels. Bad: The new Girls Aloud single.
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Metallica: too loud, and not in a good way
Here we go again. Metallica appear to be following in the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ footsteps, releasing an album that’s so compressed it’s painful to listen to. And that’s painful in a “shit sound” way, not a “woo! Scary metal!” way. the released CD version is – to coin a technical phrase – smashed to…
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Fan hits the shit
You might think I’m only linking to the YouTube clip of Noel Gallagher being attacked on stage so I can use that headline. You’re right.
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It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I’m thinking about iPods
Later today the boffins at CERN will switch on the Large Hadron Collider, which will – depending on who you believe – usher in a brave new era in physics, turn the planet into Swiss cheese, or open a portal for Satan to come and enslave us all. Which may well overshadow the latest iPod.…
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What your taste in music says about you
Pointless but amusing survey via the BBC: Indie: Low self-esteem, creative, not hard working, not gentle Chart pop: High self-esteem, not creative, hardworking, outgoing, gentle, not at ease Jazz: appalling taste in music, ugly shoes I may have made one of those up.
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The futility of flogging music (and the despair when you can’t even give it away)
An excellent article about selling records, file sharing and trying to flog MP3s via Word Magazine: web technology lets us see exactly how many people are listening to our music. We can see the MySpace hit counters spin round, with the total number of listeners for each track. Our stats pages on our blogs show…