Is music doomed? Well, probably not more than it was already.
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Category: mp3
C30, C60, C90, go!
Links: Mark E. Smith, keeping Nazis out of punk, have you heard about Napster?
Suspended in gaffer.
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Links: Threatin’s faked tour, WFMU archive closing, Winamp 5.8, streaming as the last format.
The Threatin story is this week’s winner.
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Links from the past month: post-punk, pop and piracy
I’ve moved house! And oh my goodness, the backlog …
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Links: BitTorrent “web” client, the women of Rolling Stone, Deerful how-to, “Despacito” on kazoo.
I can kazoo this on my own.
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Links: Spotify metadata, VU meters, songwriting camps, Disney defends fair use, the history of Smash Hits.
Twenty deadly diseases.
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Links: Why the Rolling Stones suck, “fake artists,” ’80s remixes of current pop, ABBA, Philip Glass and S-Express, YouTube Music.
The Rolling Stones piece certainly answers for me the question “why could I never get into this stuff?”
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Links: eMusic can’t pay its bills, nobody buys CDs, catalogue prices, majors upset Spotify not rolling out the red carpet.
Welcome to the music industry! Here’s your accordion.
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eMusic releases its blockchain ICO plan! … it’s not very good.
eMusic’s plan: 1. Collect a large pile of money. 2. Write an all-new music platform that does everything! 3. Pay people in eMusic magic beans.
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Links: Windowing is passé, piracy lawyers go to jail, MP3 “restoration,” Damo Suzuki.
I blame the delay on blockchain. Taking a while between confirmations.
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Streaming links: 24,000 new tracks a day, Spotify as label, streaming pays better than radio.
And foreshadowing of Monday’s long-form post.
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YouTube Music: your move, Spotify.
Good thing I eventually got that Spotify article done, hey.
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How to make Spotify suck less than YouTube for streaming.
I actively try to use Spotify, because I like the idea that the artist will get at least a penny shaving. So why do I keep just using YouTube? Because it’s not a goddamn pain in the arse.
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Links: Spotify windowing, Spotify and The Pirate Bay, industry shows piracy correlating with music industry success, Section 26.
The record industry is being blustering idiots about piracy again.
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Oh, eMusic, no — don’t go blockchain! Another Kodak moment.
It looks like eMusic’s attempt at a comeback last year didn’t work out so well. Behold: the eMusic Blockchain Platform! … a Kodak moment indeed.
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Links: Peter Saville, pirates buy streaming, Bandcamp users buy music, vinyl demand, Mark E. Smith, Kam Franklin.
Medical journal Lancet Psychiatry ran a Mark E. Smith obituary.
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Links: The Shakin’ Stevens game, Quincy Jones, death of the CD, Spotify songwriter credits, Snub TV.
Now I’m trying to imagine an ’80s Quincy Jones game.
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Links: Chapter Music, Damned Industrial top 20, ZynAddSubFx terms, iTunes shutdown, vinyl clog.
Yes, I’m still here. More exciting things from the big world!
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Links: Origin of scenes, problems with muzak, pirate’s Raspberry Pi, John Cale, Unknown Pleasures.
Neoreaction a Basilisk is finally out!
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Links: “Rasputin”, DIY Spotify payola, Thriller, Tommy Keene.
Please forgive my neglect, I love you really.
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Links: failing to fake Spotify plays, John Cale plays Velvets, Drake on the blockchain.
Plus John Cale on US TV game show I’ve Got A Secret in 1963.
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Links: The Face, streaming liner notes, vinyl, cassettes.
That coulda been me up there! Possibly.
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Links: DAF, getting your US copyrights back, where the streaming money goes.
You can guess who makes it big from streaming, and it’s not Spotify.
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Links: Rap as poetry; labels as services; where are all the pirates?
And Dave Graney on video, just because.
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Links: MP3, the Pirate Bay mines you, album download code design.
And Spray, compressed and convenient.
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YouTube stream ripping: the record industry is being thick again.
I feel like I’m giving away the game here by revealing the truth to the terminally incompetent, but good Lord this is ridiculous.
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Links: Goldman Sachs is full of it, streaming for DJs, why you can’t blockchain music.
And PlayMobil Joy Division.
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How Spotify dragged the record industry kicking and screaming to its own survival.
You’d think people running a business would do things that would make money and have them still be around next year. But, welcome to music!
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Soundcloud saved for now! … keep downloading.
SoundCloud is saved! … for as yet unknown values of “saved.”
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Links: Bandcamp Friday deal, Post-Punk.com, Soundcloud as dot-com disaster.
Some news that’s actually timely and urgent!
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