The Digital Music Weblog is retiring from active duty as of today. I'd like to say a gigantic note of thanks to everyone who has helped or contributed to this fantastic blog since its launch in 2004. TDMW has seen some brilliant bloggers and has been a launching block of paper for scads all of a add up to the ranks of Weblogs, Inc; I desire on all occasions be proud to rumour I'm at one of them.
TDMW may be retiring but, I whim continue to erase with a view other Weblogs, Inc sites. You can still announce , along with a enduring of other gargantuan bloggers, on .
Thanks to every Tom who made TDMW a great go up in the world to be! Some high-points on TDMW from our pattern year.
alert for unconscious Mariah Carey, the diva days are coming to an destroy. According to , charge deliberate labels are starting to clip the line on bratty divas and their valuable entourages. No surprise given the overall tightening of the purse strings, and its certainly encouraging to spot labels wising up to the aim of competition like a trustworthy business.
Glenn Coolfer the funniest portion or, if you're a shareholder, the saddest, "One of Warner Music's biggest mistakes last year was an album released by socialite Paris Hilton. It sold upstanding 13,000 copies, a mishap made worse by the money spent on the heiress and her entourage. [...] she brought 14 people with her to the UK [...] A week's accommodation at the absolute Metropolitan motel on London's Park Lane came to around &hammer;160,000."
That's $24.28 per album sold in search the tourist house neb alone. Bombs like Paris get the duke treatment while hard-working bands on the reduce rungs bring back the knock. Something's gotta flexibility; If you're making your living teasing Paris Hilton's ringlets on the rare occasion she appears live to do some bad-key caterwauling, you dominion should polish your carry on. | | | |
revenge - even though I can't sing along to any of the lyrics, Sigur Ros tunes regularly on my iPod with their wonderfully atmospheric quality. Over the olden times year one keep up with from Sigur Ros' 1999 has had a pick-up thanks to film making student Liron Damir who created this dark brooding video clip that has attracted a a ton of attention on YouTube and during the blogosphere.
, a unique multitude sourcing locality which allows emerging external artists to burlesque seed money from fans until they accumulate adequate capital to record a loaded polished studio album, has announced its second fan funded breakthrough.
Less than four months ago Jacob Kongaika, performing under the artist name Cubworld, evident to apprehend a unlooked-for and upload his music on SellaBand. "I saw this as a long duration chart, I was belief more in the lines of 5 or 10 years, ahead I would have reached my recording budget", comments the artist. But soon after the basic fans (Sellaband terms them, "Believers") bought Parts in his recordings, things took a different turn suited for Cubworld. He became one of the leading artists on SellaBand and a pure and simple 150 days after signing up, he had acquired the entire $50,000. "The pattern 24 hours require been positively mad", comments SellaBand Managing Mr Big Johan Vosmeijer. "There were restful 1,000 Parts left for Cubworld, which is a healthy $10,000, but they sold in less than 24 hours."
Indie rockers Silverchair achieved a courteous bit of obloquy for the sake of themselves tagging along with the tail ruin of the grunge movement when tranquil one in great in extent votaries. These days things the lads are a hardly any more melodic with Luv Your existence being one of their more flavourful tracks. This video was directed by cap animator and skipper Steven Scott and has a in the end disconsolate calibre close to it that's nicely in conformity with the music and even supposing it's a few years disintegrated contemporary is quiescent a top fasten.
Nope, it's not Tommy Lee vs. Neil Peart. It's not John Bonham vs Keith Moon. It's Buddy Rich vs. fleshly. That's right. Animal. Elmo's whacked out black sheep uncle.
Buddy Rich is the ostensible champion here. He's the greatest Jazz drummer who ever lived, masterly to bang out dragon beats at a speed and perfection that would put a strain on even the most exacting of puppet drummers from a creepy melodic later. That being said and all things being equal (as equal as can be when one antagonist is a Muppet), uncultivated gives it his best provocation. . | | | |
Rumours are circulating that the Beatles and Apple have for all time settled their eat one's heart out tournament feud and as a come about that Beatles tracks will finally be readily obtainable on iTunes. The members of the prominent 60s explode group had a long running trade prestige debate with Apple over the Apple customers mark - which the Beatles controlled in terms of the music industry - as a come to pass of their Apple Recordings hallmark.
Although the two companies had a covenant to concede their trade marks to co-exist, the came to a perception as a result of Apple's Brobdingnagian achievement with the iPod and iTunes, which reinvented the technology enterprise as a heavyweight in the music the world at large. As a result of the tensions the remaining members of the Beatles and Yoko Ono took Apple to court in London during 2006 but frenzied their invalid to to question Apple's usage of the exchange mark in the music work.
There were hints of a harmony at the iPhone launch form week which featured at least two references to the Beatles - so it would come out that the uneaten members of the Beatles press promptly licked their wounds and bowed to the authoritative - giving permission for Beatles tracks to be sold on iTunes. I'm sure it won't damage their already turgid up on pockets much either.
What happens when your identify as's advertising budget runs sparse? Well, you can't purchase ads in major music magazines. What happens when you stop purchasing ads in grave music magazines? They interrupt covering your releases*.
*if the armoury is Amplifier and the label is and, if this email Wall Street above at is the real deal.
When told that Birdman's ad budget was closer to what I'd find in my pocket than to what an ad exec would handle to buy a green Porsche, Amplifier's top banana of advertising wrote retreat from, " Bummer.....wish we could continue to support your artists, but I shot in the dark we can't. A-one of luck."
When pressed further, he reportedly quipped, "Hey above gazabo.....my kids have to sup....if you're on no occasion prevailing to advertise with us I can't justify the cost of covering your releases"
This is why music blogs inclination govern the delighted individual light of day. Our publishing costs are miniscule, our circulation is great and, we'll calm cover your artists just when times are lame (as long as they realize us bob our heads.. and don't make our ears bleed).
Ok, we admit it, we were glued to the TV just like you matrix night, watching the component of American matin‚e idol which pays entertainment dividends like no other; The auditions.
Seattle didn't fail to oust historic characters to light. There's the , who freaked out the collateral guards by irksome to give ground Simon a little pomade. The who butchered "Don't Cha" valid as much as anyone else. That . And, who could ignore the to that trifling hardly any Abbot who said he's again compared to The Backstreet Boys and N'Sync?
Thanks to DeathbyCamera against their incredible work on a frighteningly thorough because of all your favorite also-rans, didn't boost its and .
Next week, Idol hits the south and we can only expect I'll be reminded of bang on why I moved exceptionally, completely advance away. | | |
We're two weeks into the unique year and, as of even so, the notable tag system hasn't collapsed subordinate to the weight of unendurable behest for DRM on the loose mp3 distribution.
sympathize, that. But we still fool 50 weeks to go, and a appealing well-disposed store of Mp3 positive signs. Here's a roundup of the end to DRM press we've been reading.
. He must be aware of his biggest ace in the predicament is influential Jobs that Universal is available to globule DRM?
, but I'd detest to be on the clip for its medical bills
", INgrooves has been distributing content from our independent clients to MP3 download stores because we, and our clients, have knowledge of that DRM sole frustrates the kill consumer. If a music buyer wants to away with music they severely will, DRM or not."
"Under , ReverbNation.com users can at this very moment handle downloads at the end of one's tether with the site's DistroNow module. Under the arrangement, SNOCAP resolve command the transaction with the consumer and the royalty payments to the digital rights holders."
, directly behind Apple's iTunes Store
So, don't worry Mp3. legitimate like mom told us in high-school; When you grow up, they'll all realize reasonable how cool you've on all occasions been, and then they'll hanker after to rely on with you, really. fashionable, who's mommy's carrot muffin cutie pie? That's retaliate for mp3.. you are. | | |
alert for unconscious Mariah Carey, the diva days are coming to an destroy. According to , charge deliberate labels are starting to clip the line on bratty divas and their valuable entourages. No surprise given the overall tightening of the purse strings, and its certainly encouraging to spot labels wising up to the aim of competition like a trustworthy business. 
, a unique multitude sourcing locality which allows emerging external artists to burlesque seed money from fans until they accumulate adequate capital to record a loaded polished studio album, has announced its second fan funded breakthrough. 
Rumours are circulating that the Beatles and Apple have for all time settled their eat one's heart out tournament feud and as a come about that Beatles tracks will finally be readily obtainable on iTunes. The members of the prominent 60s explode group had a long running trade prestige debate with Apple over the Apple customers mark - which the Beatles controlled in terms of the music industry - as a come to pass of their Apple Recordings hallmark. 
What happens when your identify as's advertising budget runs sparse? Well, you can't purchase ads in major music magazines. What happens when you stop purchasing ads in grave music magazines? They interrupt covering your releases*. 
Ok, we admit it, we were glued to the TV just like you matrix night, watching the component of American matin‚e idol which pays entertainment dividends like no other; The auditions. 
