New NPR Streaming Albums
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The Hold Steady
When it comes to finding good stuff to listen to and discover new music NPR is definitely a wise choice. The site is often seen as the MySpace of streaming albums. Some of the latest great albums streamed by NPR were The Hold Steady’s Heaven is Whenever, The Fall’s Your Future, Our Clutter and Broken Social Scene’s Forgiveness Rock Record.
Listen to The Hold Steady – Heaven is Whenever
The Fall’s Your Future – Our Clutter
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Radiohead Refused to Split Up despite Management’s Advice
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The band is among the most fervent advocates of file sharing
Brian Message, Radiohead’s manager, made a rather surprising statement – he admitted that he told the band they should split while they were working on ‘In Rainbows’ album which was a great success especially thanks to being released on p2p networks.
He pointed out to the band’s uniqueness saying “Radiohead are a once-in-a-generation act,” but also added that “you have to be honest if it’s not working.”
According to NME, the band disregarded Message’s advice and that turned out to be a very wise choice which Message himself later praised.
Message’s pro-file-sharing stand is already known and his comments were no different this time: “We believe [Courtyard Management] file-sharing by peer to peer should be legalised. The sharing of music where it is not for profit is a great thing for culture and music.”
He then explained who came first with the idea of using p2p file-sharing distribution system and how the band embraced it right away in a very intelligent manner:
“Two of my partners in the management company came up with the idea of pay-what-you-like.”
“Both the band and us were really excited about doing something brave and a bit wacky…we realised that by using the internet for the delivery of the album, we could reach 173 countries and it would cost us less than three cents a copy for distribution.”
Message advocated again the need for a monetizing file-sharing system that would make sure artists get paid: “As a free market advocate I never thought I’d say this but we will have to have government intervention to force the internet service providers to adopt a licensing model.”
Let’s turn back in time a little and remember ‘In Rainbows’:
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YouTube Teams Up with Universal to Launch New Music Video Site
Google-owned YouTube has been hunting for deals quite fervently and lately quite successfully as well. The latest agreement involving world’s most popular video site aims at creating a new music video service called Vevo in partnership with Vivendi’s Universal Music Group. Vevo which will be launched in the following months will be all about music videos offered in high quality and will be relying on revenue generated by YouTube’s massive usage worldwide.
Both parts believe that the premium service, dedicated only to content from Universal, will attract more major names in advertisement who haven’t seen ads displayed next to content uploaded by users as a real opportunity for good business. The new quality content is expected to increase advertising rates and consequently increase revenues which the two companies will split in two.
In addition to this new venture YouTube was offered an extension on the rights to host music from Universal’s catalog featuring artist like U2 and 50 Cent.
NIN Trent Reznor Answers Your Questions
For Trent it has become a habit to maintain an open relationship with the general public through the Interent
The always inventive Trend Reznor, Nine Inch Nails frontman but also recently proven digital-music visionary will participate in Digg’s next Dialogg session and already a set of burning questions eagerly collected by users of the social news site await for him.
The session will be unfolding like this: Reznor is going to answer the questions that accumulated most Diggs and it’s already clear that P2P will be at the core of them. Here’s a taste of what has queued up waiting for the NIN’s leader to answer:
“Trent – you’ve embraced Creative Commons and file sharing, but your business model (aside from touring) still primarily involves selling music either digitally or physically. Why haven’t you embraced advertising as a business model, e.g. placing ads on your torrent tracker? Why let Pirate Bay take all the ad revenue you deserve? Furthermore, why aren’t you building a brand new record label based on a modern business model?”
“What is the most embarrassing song on your iPod?”
You’ve got one more day to propose new questions and vote the ones already posted so hurry up and find out the views of a man who changed the face of music industry and music creation as well.
British Musicians: Downloading Music Should Not Be Prosecuted
A mild position with regard to file sharing seems to have been adopted by The Featured Artists Coalition, a group which includes140 popular UK musicians. According to the latest statements of the group individuals should not be indicted for downloading copyrighted files using p2p file sharing sites, AfterDawn reports. However, they also said that “companies such as MySpace and YouTube should be required to remunerate the artists when they use their music for advertising.”
The artists are determined to present their stand to Lord Carter, a well know advocate against illegal file sharers.
Among the musicians who attended at the group’s inaugural meeting were Annie Lennox, Robbie Williams, David Rowntree from Blur, Ed O’Brien from Radiohead, Nick Mason from Pink Floyd and others.
UK is currently engaging even more fiercely in the action of prosecuting pirates which made Billy Bragg say: “the record industry in Britain is still going down the road of criminalising our audience for downloading illegal MP3s.”
“If we follow the music industry down that road, we will be doing nothing more than being part of a protectionist effort. It’s like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube.
“Artists should own their own rights and they should decide when their music should be used for free, or when they should have payment.”
He’s making a good point no doubt but who’s there to listen when all the British music industry seems to be hearing only the sound of money coming from lawsuits. In this respect a few artists such as NIN’s Trent Reznor and Radiohead showed that record labels could be made less of the indispensable mechanism in an artist’s work that they think they are and proven not so infallible after all.
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