Vinyl is one of the fastest growing formats for music and it’s not just a fad, according to a report in the New York Times: Sales of vinyl albums have been climbing steadily for several years, tromping on the notion that the rebound was just a fad. Through late November, more than 2.1 million vinyl… Read More “All The Really Great Stuff In Our Lives Comes From A Root Of Passion Or Love”
via the Times UK: This is the graph the record industry doesn’t want you to see. It shows the fate of the three main pillars of music industry revenue – recorded music, live music, and PRS revenues (royalties collected on behalf of artists when their music is played in public) over the last 5 years.… Read More The Graph The Record Industry Doesn’t Want You To See
New blog Harmonia Prohibitorum has published an interesting discussion of analog vs digital and the role of noise in electronic music: My main problem with digital music applications is the silence that is there to start with. If you record nothing at all onto analogue tape and play it back there’s still something there. I… Read More On Noise In Electronic Music
Waxy’s Andy Baio has taken a statistical look at how the record industry has changed in the last fifty years, and it looks like there’s a good reason why you hate so much mainstream pop music: the variety of pop music is less than half of what it was in the sixties: According to Billboard,… Read More Here’s Why You Hate Pop Music
According to the Recording Industry Association of America, shipments of vinyl LPs jumped more than 36 percent from 2006 to 2007, growing to more than 1.3 million. Shipments of CDs dropped more than 17 percent during the same period, to 511 million, as they lost some ground to digital formats Nearly 450 million CDs were… Read More Vinyl Sales Up By 36%
Apple has released a video introduction to using the iPhone, below. Based on what I’ve seen, it looks seriously droolworthy. This is what cell phones are going to look like in five years, intelligently combining mobile features with music and Internet services. It’s too bad we’ll have to wait five years for something like this… Read More A Video Introduction To The iPhone
Apple has announced June 29th as the debut date for its iPhone. The iPhone combines three products — a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a cutting-edge Internet communications device. Based on what we’ve seen so far, it looks like it will redefine the state of the art of both mobile phones… Read More Apple iPhone Debuts June 29th
UK electronic collective, Urban Myth Club—comprised of electronica artist Dezz and Hollywood film composer Stephen Barton—has released its first full-length recording on TRL Music in the spring of 2006. North American radio airplay followed, as well as debut appearances at Glastonbury and the Big Chill festivals. Their debut single gate-crashed into Apple’s iTunes Top 30… Read More Online Collaboration With Reason Key To Urban Myth Club Sound
Apple has announced that the iTunes Music Store now has over one million songs available for download in the US, becoming the first and only online digital music service to offer consumers a million song catalog. The iTunes Music Store features music from all five major record labels and over 600 leading independent labels from… Read More iTunes Music Store Catalog Tops One Million Songs
Apple today announced that iPod mini, the smallest portable music player ever to hold up to 1,000 CD-quality songs, will be available internationally on July 24. The iPod mini offers an appealing combination of ultra-portable design, style, song capacity, ease-of-use and audio performance. “The iPod mini has been a smash hit in the US, and… Read More Apple iPods Ready for International Market
