There’s been much talk here about digital distribution and even vinyl records and its true enough that digital distribution has demystified music distribution for the diy label and artist but the reality is that (legal) download services still only have a third of the full retail music market share, so CDs, (at least for the [...]

Music Thing: Plug-and-play studio for £500
Gizmodo ran a piece about how to build a 24-track digital home studio for $5,000. I wondered if I could do the same thing for £500 - bearing in mind that Gizmodo didn’t even include software. So, my rules are: You already have a decent PC (1ghz, 256mg ra

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Songbird Music Player Challenges iTunes With Major Update | Listening Post from Wired.com
Songbird, the open-source music player that makes finding music easy online, has been updated with new features and bug fixes. If you’ve been looking for a new way to listen to music on your computer, Songbird has a lot to recommend it.

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A film came through the post this morning from Netflix called ‘I’m Reed Fish’, which I can’t for the life of me remember putting in my queue. Anyway, it was one of those cute OK movies I guess, not great and not bad either. When a movie is like that I have this awful habit [...]

Future of Music Coalition Blog: “Letter” in the Post
Here’s a fun one: Today’s Washington Post features a profile of music business renegade Bob Lefsetz, whose ongoing screed (or tirade, depending on your opinion), The Lefsetz Letter, is read by both working-class musicians and high-level industry types

Bit Player : Los Angeles Times
Trendrr, a fascinating site that [...]

Create Digital Music » Tech Blogger Michael Arrington Thinks You Musicians Owe the Web Money
I apparently had better things to do this weekend than hear the latest self-righteous, all music is free, the Web changes the fabric of reality post about the music business, this time from Michael Arrington of Techcrunch.

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Before I started producing dance music I used to strut my stuff as the lead singer of an alternative rock band called the Fruit Eating Bears, who’s main claim to fame seemed to be the ‘unpredictable’ nature of the live gigs (ie: things tended to depend a lot on how much we’d been drinking that [...]

OK then, its nothing short of amazing that today, theoretically you can have your music on sale, worldwide in one of the biggest music retailers stores on the planet. Without a tour, without a manager and even without a record deal. You can be based in Brighton, UK (for instance) and someone in Alaska or [...]

hypebot: 100 Free and Affordable High and Low Tech Music Promotion Tips
100 Free & Affordable High & Low Tech Music Promotion Tips.
Create An Elaborate Plan - Bruce Warila’s Unsprung Wisdom
Revenue from the sale of music is slowing considerably for everyone. Reoccurring revenue, which is the ongoing stream of revenue you make outside of touring, is [...]

Musicadium Blog - The 5 Things Every Band Needs on Their Myspace
You can’t read what you can’t see. So many myspace pages are destroyed by putting hard to read text over an incompatible background photo. Make sure your text is easily readable, easily accessible and logically set out.
IFPI - Digital Music Retailers
List of worldwide legal [...]