Revision3 / XLR8TV has a great video interview with one of my favorite folktronica artists: Kieran Hebden, better known as Four Tet.
In the video, Four Ter talks about why he doesn’t really like or listen to classical music and his live collaborations with drummer Steve Reid…
Watch the video...
The digital internet revolution has not only changed the music and the newspaper industries.. the magazine business is also changing radically.
Case in point: On March 26, 2009, Blender magazine stopped printing magazines and moved to an online-only format, eliminating 30 jobs along the way. I knew the magazine was in trouble since i had a free magazine subscription for almost two...
according to this report the number of independent labels are increasing their numbers in terms of total music sales (almost 30%), digital downloads, webcasting and satellite radio. Also, independent label artists’ had a great year at the Grammy’s
* Independent labels accounted for 32% of aggregate album sales in 2008, up almost 1.5% from 2007.
* Independent artists...
Professor Dave Winer has posted one of the most convincing articles about the sunset of online advertisement in his blog
The idea behind his theory is that online review sites and blogs will make online advertisement completely ineffective by offering something that advertisements could never offer, something that, as Kevin Kelly stated in his brilliant essay Better than Free...
I am listening right now to this awesome bootleg of Venetian Snares Live at the STRP Festival Eindhoven 2009-04-04.
The sound of the boot is awesome, it seems it was grabbed from the console.
I grabbed the mp3 file from a torrent on the Pirate Bay.
The torrent seems to have gone dead, but you can still download the concert from hotfile HERE
I was surprised, i thought his live show...