22 Thursday Mar 2007
I Was working through my RSS feed aggregator and came across this interesting article – Link to Raisingkids: News – Daily Parenting News: Heavy Metal Kids Rock Academically.
So can listening to metal make you brainier? We’ll I’m going to go dig out my Nepalm Death tonight, and see if I can understand the entirety of A Brief History Of Time tomorrow.
20 Tuesday Mar 2007
According to the BBC news site – CD WOW has started to purchase some of its CDs from Hong Kong again, this has resulted a court judgement against them (story here – Link to BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Judge rules against cheap CD site). Not good news for the consumer, and also seems to be commercial suicide for the record industry. How the BPI can impose this restriction is beyond my comprehension, as I can purchase any other product from anywhere in the world – including big things like cars.
This raises interesting questions about the viability of BangCD who operate in a similar manner.
20 Tuesday Mar 2007
Posted in Music, Technology
The noise and protest about the change in royalties for web broadcasts is picking up, check out Link to News: Higher Music Royalty Rates — KCRW | 89.9FM and Save The Streams.
19 Monday Mar 2007
Posted in Music
On the subject of missing RSS feeds, Peter Gabriel’s realworld site is also missing RSS – so I’ve only just discovered that he will be performing in London. Question is what are the chances of new material?
Link to Peter Gabriel announced for Hyde Park Calling | News | NME.COM
19 Monday Mar 2007
Posted in Music
Having ranted in the past about how some artists still can’t get RSS feeds onto their website’s as the designers are too busy playing with Flash, I have come across a cool website which overcomes the RSS problem and you can create aggregate feeds of news from your favourite artists even though they don’t have feeds themselves. go here –
06 Tuesday Mar 2007
I’ve added new entries to my list of download site – the entry can be found here.
05 Monday Mar 2007
Posted in Music, Technology
There has been an going debate about how much webcacts should be charged in royalty fees to match with public & commerical radio. Well it would seem that some decisions have been announced on the subject. The daft thing is that with the possible exception of the very big players (ClearChannel et al), the rates will kill the small indy stations accounding to Radio & Internet News Letter (article – Link to RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter). If these figures are correct, and they seem viable then it appears that the RIAA have scored an own goal as they’ll end up putting a lot of indie stations out of business which doesn’t do the music industry an favours.
02 Friday Mar 2007
Posted in Music
Well I’d argree with the Arjan Writes blog – bigging up (sorry couldn’t resist that) William Besson (Link to :: arjanwrites music blog ::: Hot New Talent Alert: William Besson). If the music on his myspace account is anything to go by then there is some serious talent here (http://www.myspace.com/williambesson). Some bits resemble Depeche Mode during their Ultra period, with fragments of Massive Attack – a blend of chill and trip hop.
Besson has is own web site as well – http://www.williambesson.com/. It is possible buy his first album – Isn’t It About Faith? via his website which links to several sites around the world such as CD Unsigned.
I shall be investing further.
01 Thursday Mar 2007
Posted in Music
Horrah – new Ryan Adams official album has been announced, details here (Link to Ryan Adams Reveals New Album Details).
26 Monday Feb 2007
Posted in Music
Phil (aka MP3Monster)'s Blog 