OR <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Why the Music Industry is Losing Money….. Whilst researching statistics for an article I am doing, I came across a little historical gem. The first CD ever issued back in 1982 was “<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />52nd Street” by Billy [...]
The content industry continues to be worried about P2P. But it doesn't seem to understand that its fortunes were always built on giving people what they want, not what they should have. Billy Bragg wrote an interesting piece in the Guardian about how the music industry is trying to make the ISP's into the proxy [...]
John is a good friend from Los Angeles, who voted for Obama in the recent Presidential election. He sent this to me earlier today. I thought it was too good to not share and John has agreed for me to publish it here. Seems to sum up so much how quickly the honeymoon can end [...]
I just found out this morning that my old friend, Tommy Noonan, passed away two weeks ago. Tom was one of the real gentlemen of the music business. Back when it was about people and not just about profits. I brought Tom out to Australia in the early 1990's to speak at a conference along [...]
Tuesday evening on the US West Coast, Perceptric ran a first post about mashing. (the art of tieing together different bits of music, words, sounds, maybe video, into one unique package) from Chris Gilbey in San Francisco. A few hours afterwards, in Los Angeles, I posted more, bookmarking WaxAudio's site, and their song as examples of a new concept. [...]