The ever forward-thinking Radiohead have leaked their latest track using the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol. Not content with the radical ”pay what you want” pricing policy for their last album “In Rainbows”, the Oxfordshire alterna-rockers appeared to ... Read More

This great data visualisation from the NY Times comes to us via a really fascinating website called Information is Beautiful. It represents the sales in billions of today’s dollars of the various music formats over time. They claim it represents the dwindling death knell of the music industry....

The music industry should be excited about Apple’s rumored tablet product called Cocktail. If executed well, this is the type of digital product that could bring significant profitability back to the music industry. Here are a few initial thoughts on this rumored product / format: Open format. The...

Bright Shining Star by Humphreys & Keen You could reasonably argue that there have been better times to get into music retail. All the same, I’ve taken a very small step towards that this week on behalf of some New Zealand friends of mine who have recorded my favourite album of the past five...

Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch have had more than their fair share of cool audio apps (including the unfinished but amazing Jasuto) and there are more on the way including FiRe from Audio Engineering, the brains behind Wave Editor. This hard disk recording app includes accurate real-time waveform information...

Andy from Indielab tells me that the Manchester Un-Consultancy is all systems go. An un-consultancy is a bit like a normal consultancy, but more grass-rootsy. A while back, I wrote a blog post that explains the origins of un-consultancies and the idea behind them. Essentially, you get lots of good and...

I met up with Soundcloud’s UK manager, Dave Haynes earlier today. He was celebrating a venture capital investment of 2.5 million euros, announced today. I talked to him about how independent music can make the most of the service. ______________________________ Soundcloud celebrate

I’ve been having conversations today about a ‘non-DRM solution’ to filesharing. This conversation comes up pretty regularly, actually. I’ve now been approached by no less than three companies that would like me to examine, and perhaps endorse their own system. Each time, it involves...

Olaf & Tak at Lappi Restaurant. Cool people. Of course, one of the conflicting things about conferences like Is This It is the fact that while cognitively you may be at odds with a lot of the information and opinions being spread around by some of the more conservative and old-school thinkers that...

I spent the past four days at a conference in Helsinki called Is This It. 150-odd music industry people charged with coming up with 100 or more new ideas to invigorate and reinterpret the business. A conference that put music back into the music industry. A place for learning, creativity, networking...