January 2010
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The Dismemberment Plan - Following Through
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Heart - “Barracuda” - Little Queen
When GB drops...
“Bad luck, non-US countries. iBooks won’t be available from launch in any country...”
– This is what’s so wrong with the content industries (music, movies, TV, books). This is why (part of the reason, anyway) people steal this stuff. This is why it drives me crazy when eMusic tells me a particular album “is not available in your country” (Canada). Or when MP3 downloads aren’t available...
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The Who - The Punk And The Godfather
That is all.
Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky
“Nick Drake was...
R-O-L-L-E-R-C-O-A-S-T-E-R
Today it was.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Apparat (110)
Get Well Soon (88)
Motorpsycho (64)
Chapel Club (41)
Owen Pallett (41)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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WatchLali Puna - Remember - Our inventions
More from Morr Music. Love that label, meeting them tomorrow!
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WatchMagnetic Fields - Realism
Full album stream on SoundCloud.
Awesome Bio
siminoff:
One of the best VC blogs that I follow is Bryce Roberts. He always gives interesting perspectives on things and definitely not the typical VC. I was reading a great post that he had yesterday, “Its not the size of your market, its what you do with it that matter” worth a read but what really caught my attention, which I had missed in the past, was his bio on the site:
I co-founded...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Owen Pallett (102)
Elliott Smith (88)
Jason Boesel (54)
The Low Anthem (48)
Chapel Club (38)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“If you have a voice, a message, a mission and drive, the web can open many of...”
– BRYCE DOT VC
Read the whole thing, great story.
“The engineers and I handle customer support. When I tell people that, they look...”
– The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak (via mikehudack) (via brycedotvc)
We use GetSatisfaction and everyone in the team gets every new email about a new topic (idea, problem, question, praise). A great radar for everyone to know/feel what’s going on out there.
The Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who... →
Must read!
Connect with Fans (CwF) + Reason to Buy (RtB) = The Business Model
Connect With Fans + Reason To Buy = The Business... →
nervousacid:
I’ve always thought that the worst mistake an artist can make is to wait around and be “discovered,” but the conventional wisdom has always countered that the traditional record company system is the only route towards financial solvency. Not so, says Mike Masnick, who cites the success of both the famous (Nine Inch Nails) and the not-so-famous (Jonathon Coulton) as two examples of...
Efterklang - Modern Drift
via gbabuts,...
When two web services love each other very much...
hypem:
Some great music blogs use Tumblr as their platform, and we aggregate those in The Hype Machine. But plenty of people have awesome insights on music, even if they post about everything else on their tumblelog, too. So now, you can submit your music posts to the Hype Tumblr. We’re also following some cool people and reblogging their stuff, so you can see all the...
“The site contained in the instruction booklet which came with the ipod charges...”
– Email from a friend’s mother-in-law upon receipt of a new iPod. Paid music has some challenges. (via davehyndman)
Related.
Introducing 'Connect with SoundCloud' - connect...
We want to make it really easy for users to connect third-party apps and services with their accounts on SoundCloud.
That’s why we’re introducing ‘Connect with SoundCloud’ today. It’s built on OAuth giving you the main benefit that you don’t have to store your SoundCloud login credentials in any third-party app or service.
We have identified two main use cases:
Export to SoundCloud: upload...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
I'd have paid Heidi Montag the price of 1,000...