Category: Music

  • So long, Glaswegian indie rock radio

    XFM Scotland, the radio station formerly known as Beat 106, is to become part of the Galaxy dance music network. The switch, which will be made in the autumn, is likely to see a radical overhaul of the station’s music output.

  • Maybe I should have waited before shaving my legs

    Despite reports, Girls Aloud are not planning to recruit a new member – at least, not according to the official site: Over the weekend the papers have been filled with false stories on the girls. But instead of the tired old ‘split’ stories, they have invented rumours of a brand new Girls Aloud reality show.…

  • Could shutting down Pandora open Pandora’s box?

    An interesting post on Broadstuff about Pandora, the web-radio service whose extremely high royalty payments may force it out of business: it’s clear that Pandora and its ilk will live – it’s far too good to lose – [so] it will just go to the P2P freenet if this practice continues, thus hurting the Industry…

  • Cory Doctorow on the file sharing crackdown

    An interesting and typically inflammatory piece from Mr Doctorow in the Guardian: The original Napster had a fine proposition: they would charge their users for signing onto their network and write a cheque for as-many-billions-as-you-like to the record industry every quarter… The record industry sued them into a smoking hole instead… [here is] the tried-and-true…

  • Highway to Heck

    O Noes! AC/DC The Musical!

  • Does your iPhone 3G sound different?

    Here’s one for the 3G owners: does your iPhone sound different to your old iPhone when you’re playing music? I’m using the same headphones, same EQ settings and same music, but the 3G sounds less bassy than the first-gen iPhone: it’s hard to explain, but the best way I can describe it is that the…

  • Radiohead go open source

    Well, sort of. The video for House of Cards uses a whizzy data visualisation technique, whatever that means, and techy types can download the data from Google Code and fiddle with it. Here’s the video. Or you could just zoom around a 3D model of Thom Yorke’s head. [Via Metafilter]

  • Ad-supported music can’t work

    An interesting post on Silicon Alley Insider about the business model for advertising-funded music: The basic economics: A song lasts 3.5 minutes. The majors have been asking for a penny each time one gets played. Let’s say the site shows a new ad every time the song changes. To break even the site needs to…

  • If you like Radiohead, you’ll like this

    The stripped-down “From The Basement” live set is on iTunes for a very reasonable seven quid, and it’s great. Obligatory YouTube clip follows:

  • Almost everybody pirates music. Most of them would pay for it

    Interesting numbers from a British Music Rights-funded study of 14-to-24-year-olds’ music consumption: A full 95% said they’d copied music in some way or another at one time or another. And 80% would pay for a legal subscription-based music service that would allow them to discover, swap and recommend music. BMR’s Feargal Sharkey – yep, him…