Posted by: RFM on: July 18, 2009
From $99 music videos, though this one apparently cost $12.
Via Boingboing
Posted by: RFM on: May 8, 2009
Peter Kirwan writes over at Wired (UK edition) on the surprisingly healthy state of the music industry.
It turns out that – surprise! – they can’t be trusted. The industry that exploited artists and ripped off fans for decades is – it seems – exaggerating when they whinge about how online “piracy” is killing them softly [...]
Posted by: RFM on: March 14, 2009
BoingBoing have a thing for ukulele music at the moment, and because of this I learned about BandCamp, which is a WordPress-like web tool that allows you – the artist – to create and manage your own web site, with downloadable tracks, album artwork, and so on.
It looks cleaner and less cluttered than MySpace, and [...]
Posted by: RFM on: March 5, 2009
Young music fans deaf to iPod’s limitations – Times Online .
It’s interesting, and something I’ve been wondering about for a while. It’s generally true that people will opt for convenience and cheap/free over quality. People will put up with a pretty fuzzy picture if it’s something they want to watch, and MP3 is an [...]
Posted by: RFM on: February 22, 2009
The Times Technology blog ha gathered together a Top 20 tracks remixed by Microsoft Songsmith, with predictably hilarious results.
This is a great example of user-generated content, with the audience using the software for something other than what it was intended to do. The original cheesy Microsoft ad was awful enough (you can see it at [...]
Posted by: RFM on: January 16, 2009
Via BoingBoing comes this excellent YouTube video, which rebuts the case made by European media producers to extend mechanical copyright in Europe from its current 50 years.
It’s important stuff, because the message from the entertainment industry is always on the side of… the entertainment industry, and does not give any kind [...]
Posted by: RFM on: January 6, 2009
Via Macworld UK comes the news that all four major record labels are to make their music available from iTunes in the + format (256mbps AAC, DRM-free) from April. Some will still carp (and they do in the article) that this is still not the “universal” MP3 format, but the truth is that AAC is [...]
Posted by: RFM on: January 5, 2009
This Boing Boing article includes a link to a Norwegian web site which will allow you to download a history-of-the-Beatles, including the music. If you speak Norwegian, you might even understand it.
UPDATE: Boo, the noble experiment is over.
Posted by: RFM on: January 1, 2009
7300 views on Slideshare.
Posted by: RFM on: December 5, 2008
Here’s one for Chris.
This is not the first time that Coldplay have been involved in a plagiarism controversy. Earlier this year, an American band accused them of nicking a melody, and now guitarist Joe Satriani is accusing them of “using substantial portions” of an instrumental track he released in 2004 called If I Could Fly.
They [...]
