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listening to "John Mayer - Perfectly Lonely (Battle Studies Full Album Version)"

Sat, 05 May 2012 10:46:48 -0400

listening to "John Mayer - Perfectly Lonely (Battle Studies Full Album Version)":

yep.

(via SEVEN)

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:35:57 -0400

(via SEVEN)

listening to "Amy Winehouse - Valerie - Live HD"

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:54:53 -0400

listening to "Amy Winehouse - Valerie - Live HD"

listening to "✿ MARVIN GAYE feat. BETTY WRIGHT - Distant Lover (1973) ✿"

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:14:37 -0500

listening to "✿ MARVIN GAYE feat. BETTY WRIGHT - Distant Lover (1973) ✿":

hope your lover is not so distant in 2012~ !

Lefsetz 11.8.11

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:07:46 -0500

Lefsetz 11.8.11:

Fabulous:

I get it, Doug Morris is playing to win. And of everybody extant, he’s got the best track record, I give him credit for this.

But I cannot applaud his deal with Dr. Luke. Sure, Mr. Gottwald may make hits, but Doug’s move seems as defensive as much as it is offensive. In other words, Doug is taking Dr. Luke off the table, he’s removing his ability to play for others.

Then again, Lucian made a similar deal with Mutt Lange, who I’d bet on before Dr. Luke anyway. Dr. Luke is great with today’s hits, but he hasn’t illustrated the breadth of repertoire that Mutt has.

But these exclusive deals are antithetical to the modern world. In an era where rappers release more mix tapes than official product, where all music is up for grabs, free online, to try to win by placing restrictions is so old school as to make me wince.

The future is about collaboration. That’s what social is all about. Talk to the younger generation, they’re about a free exchange of ideas amongst everybody. It’s about being a member of the group more than dominating as an individual.

As for Apple, which famously vertically integrates all its products, that was a failure of others to compete more than Apple squeezing out opportunity. As for iTunes’ incompatibility with other devices… The DRM has been removed, anyone can attempt to write jukebox/synching software as good as Apple’s, there’s no restriction on innovation.

Creativity is now open source. It’s not only about Linux and other software, but mashups and YouTube creations. These walls make no sense to users and they don’t make much sense to musicians either. You mean I can’t play with someone else just because they signed a deal with a different company?

Trent Reznor left Interscope. The only person deciding what he should do is him.

And Terry McBride may have been too early, but the unitary concept, of owning all your own rights so you can make decisions in your best interest on the fly, is what is coming. Sooner than you think.

Doug Morris is the guy trying to create a new company in the mold of the old. I don’t want to be ageist here, you don’t have to be young to innovate, but we’re now seeing the same movie as we always have, a bunch of fat cats banking on corralling an uncontrollable public into a future they think is defined, but which is really wide open.

I’d prefer to see enablers as opposed to controllers.

What Doug Morris has done here is anti-art. It’s all about the bucks. And that’s more about the past than the future.

As for his claim that he helped create Vevo…

Come back to me when the service is profitable as opposed to hemorrhaging money. Tell me when the public loves wading through the ads.

Doug is about roadblocks as opposed to freeways.

He can hear a hit, he can enable executive talent.

As for seeing the future and enabling artists at large?

He’s always been about signing who he can get on the radio and sell discs. In a world where radio is dying and so are discs.

Hmm…

P.S. Artists are different from producers. Artists are self-contained. Producers work with multiple artists. Tying up artists exclusively is bad enough, but doing the same with producers is akin to mind control. Music isn’t sports, it’s not a team game. The major labels just don’t get this.

listening to "Shadows Break"

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:54:02 -0400

listening to "Shadows Break":

God just one more…

listening to "Jules

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:50:50 -0400

listening to "Jules :

and again.

listening to "Jules and the Polar Bears - You Just Don

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:49:39 -0400

listening to "Jules and the Polar Bears - You Just Don:

f*ck-yeah

listening to "Frank Zappa Black Napkins Live Palladium NY

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:46:36 -0400

listening to "Frank Zappa Black Napkins Live Palladium NY

listening to "Camel - Sahara"

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:40:46 -0400

listening to "Camel - Sahara":

gnite music.

listening to "ISN

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:37:02 -0400

listening to "ISN

listening to "Rod Stewart.My Heart Can

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:22:06 -0400

listening to "Rod Stewart.My Heart Can:

@pacha17 - so you like Rod.

listening to "smoke - curtains (from jem cohen

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:07:53 -0400

listening to "smoke - curtains (from jem cohen:

poor benjamin

Jason Derulo Opens Up On Stalkers, Cocky Producers

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:04:36 -0400

NEW YORK

Slide Show: The 10 best rock-and-roll movies ever made

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:04:04 -0400

[at MarketWatch] - What are the 10 greatest rock-and-roll movies of all time? It is a matter of opinion, of course. You may nod your head in agreement with my choices - or think I’m out to lunch. Either way, it’s all good. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/cbsm/rss/SIG=12m283bte/*http%3A//www.marketwatch.com/news/story/10-best-rock-and-roll-movies-ever/story.aspx?guid=5CD4318C-E544-11E0-8930-00212803FAD6&siteid=yhoof

New book satirizes reality TV, "PC Britain," media

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:52:04 -0400

LONDON (Reuters) - James Palumbo is best known as the co-founder of Ministry of Sound, the music and nightclub business that claims to be the world’s largest independent record company. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/entertainment/~3/8wKbIWN9d4Q/us-books-palumbo-satire-idUSTRE78S2QN20110929

Mailbag From: chamillionaire Subject: Re: Innovation Bob, Let me start off by saying I’m a...

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:23:01 -0400

Mailbag From: chamillionaire Subject: Re: Innovation Bob, Let me start off by saying I’m a former major label recording artist who is

Bjork, 'Moon'

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:51:03 -0400

Bjork is back to greet us once more before her highly built-up album, Biophilia, drops Oct. 11. Last week, she added her latest single, “Moon,” to the growing pile including “Virus,” Cosmogony” and “Crystalline,” one by one acclimating us to the space-meets-nature-meets-earthlings mood of the album. Bjork is sounding especially tinkly on “Moon,” a trend we’ve noticed on “Virus” and “Crystalline,” and one we’re very much in support of. As with every song on the album, “Moon” comes with a corresponding iPad app to deepen your Biophilia experience. According to her label, Nonesuch Records, the app is inspired by “similarities between cycles in music and cycles of the moon and tides”: The app opens with a musical sequencer arranged as pearls strung out like ribs projecting from a central spine. Each pearl sounds in sequence and can play any note from the song’s pitch collection. Fluid in the spine rises and falls with the moon above and tides below, and pearls play when fluid spills out from the spine and washes over them. In song mode the phase of the moon changes with the song structure. In instrument-mode drag your finger across the pearls to change their phase and you change their corresponding pitch. Tap on the moon to change its phase, the amount of fluid it pulls up through the spine, and the number of pearls activated by the fluid. Read More… More on Music http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/bjork-biophilia-moon_n_961814.html

listening to "Sunny Came Home -Shawn Colvin w/Lyrics"

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:59:10 -0400

listening to "Sunny Came Home -Shawn Colvin w/Lyrics":

and it goes on

listening to "The Killers - Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine"

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:46:15 -0400

listening to "The Killers - Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine":

bang.