U2’s business practices
For many, many years we have admired U2’s business practices. This band has succeeded in not only writing and recording multi-million selling albums and lucrative…
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Books fuel our need for narratives. Art fuels the space in our minds. Music fuels the space in our time. Movies do it all.
Mass Debate Online
If you love a bit of a verbal stoush, check out ConvinceMe.net. I haven’t tried it yet but I like the idea of it. Not…
Continue reading →EMI = Every Mistake Imaginable
The past few weeks have been somewhat tumultuous in the music industry, with the departure of two of the music industry’s best regarded executives, David…
Continue reading →Traditional media are n00b5 – gaming is a PHENOMENON
WOW Burning Crusade is out. it’s very, very big. this is bigger than any film release of this year. The traditional media is slow to…
Continue reading →JJJ – The Secret Station
JJJ thought they’d “do a MySpace” and exclusively promote a Jet concert on the banks of the Yarra at the last minute. The concert was…
Continue reading →What if the every band in the world could record one album only?
I was reading one of Russell Davies’ excellent blog posts when I found this great, great thought. What if every band ever was only able…
Continue reading →My piece for Crikey on French talent woes at the FIFA World Cup 2006
I had the great pleasure of attending Switzerland vs France at the Gootleib Daimler Stadion in downtown Stuttgart. What a wonderful atmosphere. The World Cup…
Continue reading →Finally, iTunes is in Australia
I love it, iTunes Music Store has arrived in Australia! It’s great that the best and pretty much only decent digital music shop has been…
Continue reading →KaZaA vs the world – digital downloads vs legal eagles
Sharman Networks, the owners of the KaZaA P2P file-sharing software, has been sued by a collection of record companies in a civil case in Australian…
Continue reading →Welcome to the New Economy Part Two: CDs are dead
The CD is dead. When will the record companies wake up and smell the coffee? In one of my earlier posts I spoke of how…
Continue reading →Shock and Awe – John Peel OBE 1939-2004
Legendary figure of the worldwide music industry, Mr John Peel OBE has died suddenly while on holidays on South America. John Peel has been a…
Continue reading →A New Medium?
Robbie Williams released his Greatest Hits album on Monday, which was released on a multimedia card (MMC) format for the first time. Is it the…
Continue reading →Aussie Hip Hop – The True School
American Hip Hip is lost. The birth of Hip Hop, the expression of ultimate aspiration against all odds, has been perverted by the new school,…
Continue reading →Free trade is music to my ears
The fear and loathing which has poured from the creative industries about the upcoming Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US is an ill-informed and…
Continue reading →The Dinosaurs of the Recorded Music Industry Must Evolve or Perish
There was a time when music companies objected to the playing of music on the radio. Instead of seeing early radio technology as a positive…
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