New Sound Now // silent rave, gracenote, rising profits
This week on New Sound Now, K Sawyer Paul talks about silent raves and how they can incite abuse of police power, BBC’s new top-1000 amalgamation engine Sound Index, Sony’s buyout of Gracenote, and a report from the financial times that artists are actually making money off the internet. Crazy, huh? Plus, videos by The Spinto Band, Black Ghosts, Teenagers in Tokyo, and Mates of State.
Links
Woman arrested at a silent rave for doing absolutely nothing
BBC launches Sound Index, an amalgamated top 1000 list of everything that everyone is listening to everywhere.
66% of people don’t care about music downloads on cell phones. At all.
Sony buys Gracenote, the company that automatically labels all your mp3s, for $260 million.
Artists receiving record amounts of royalties, thereby completely disproving the theory that the internet is bleeding artists dry.
videos
Mates of State - Get Better
Teenagers in Tokyo - Very Vampyr
Spinto Band - Summer Grof
The Black Ghosts - I Want Nothing
Chad said,
April 25, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Another great episode! I wonder how much $$ songwriters have received from online sources? They have always been one of the biggest groups against piracy … after the major labels.
C