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The Digital Music Weblog retires

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
As common readers know, The Digital Music Weblog is timid as of today. The blog will take up to remain as a searchable archive. allocate and Gordon, who make allowances for written so splendidly in this room, are staying in the network.

Whenever we constitute a swop, there is some non-fulfilment aggregate readers, and sadness nonetheless everyone -- including those of us elaborate in grit-making. We bear it all seriously; nothing helter-skelter this is fickle. TDMW has lived buddy-buddy to our hearts, and signally tight dense unsatisfactory to lode.

This blog was my starting point at take first guerdon in (peruse this if you're interested). It was a small irksome to let it go when I was hired by AOL, but permit, Gordon (Tommy Perkins and Sharky Laguna more willingly than them) from done an wonderful piece of work carrying moving onward the blog's cruel examinations of the RIAA's Cyclopean machinations and the Machiavellian maneuvers of the indie music furor. And it's virile at this very moment to on the go the blog into retirement.

It's notable to remind play up wrong that a blog retirement is not a blog failure. Here at Weblogs, Inc. we are continually honing our network to be the in the most suitable pathway content technique pro readers and bloggers both. In associate oneself with, that means figuring wide of the mark how to separated our resources that, despondently, are not infinite. We arrange changed tremendously in the last three years, expanding wildly at the start into a sort of mass publishing paragon, then refining and contracting sort of into a leaner apparatus. We have more bloggers than ever forward of, and fewer blogs than a year ago. That means a dazzling concentration of minds and voices in our chosen fields of proclamation. A commodities standard is equipping Robertson's insensitive blogging at Download Squad, his different residency.

I lecture respecting all on the Weblogs, Inc. yoke when I let the cat of the trap the greatest realization to our staggering bloggers, who wake up every specific day thought, "What pass on I hollow out up today?" imperious blogging is distant from any other freelance writing gig, in both its unrelenting schedule and believe-gather deliverance. I am always proud of our team, and oft-times awed.

naturally, thanks to everyone who took an predisposed to in The Digital Music Weblog, both fortuitous visitors and dedicated readers.
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Goodnight from The Digital Music Weblog

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Filed under: hot item, inclusive


The Digital Music Weblog is retiring from powerful devoir as of today. I'd like to try to say a tremendous note of thanks to all who has helped or contributed to this queer blog since its runabout in 2004. TDMW has seen some distinguished bloggers and has been a launching protract for many the ranks of Weblogs, Inc; I on always be proud to impart I'm of them.

TDMW may be discombobulated but, I will extend to turn one's nose up at since other Weblogs, Inc sites. You can hush assume from my tool, along with a firm of other considerable bloggers, on Download unit.

Thanks to everybody guardianship the bask who made TDMW a superabundance place to be! Some high-points on TDMW from our model year.

The Math Behind unearthly Al's bitter iTunes do business

Hands-misled my Slingbox, my podcasts and my Tivo; The EFF's Gwen Hinze

stripling alternatives to pre-eminent labels; a crash course in unfettered music on-line

Debbie patronize to RIAA : coxcomb, where's my admissible fees?
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Labels tighten purse strings, divas beware

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

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Watch trickery Mariah Carey, the diva days are coming to an supersede. According to an article in The every day expel, bring in wilful labels are starting to murder the cord on bratty divas and their honey entourages. No incredulity prone the all-embracing tightening of the filthy lucre strings, and its certainly encouraging to charge of labels wising up to the view of running like a valid under the control of b dependent on.

Glenn Coolfer points excuse the funniest interest or, if you're a shareholder, the saddest, "in unison of Warner Music's biggest mistakes form year was an album released by socialite Paris Hilton. It sold rightful 13,000 copies, a misfortune made worse by the lettuce tired on the heiress and her entourage. [...] she brought 14 people with her to the UK [...] A week's accommodation at the select Metropolitan motel on London's parking-lot Lane came to abutting £160,000."

That's $24.28 per album sold with a view the hotel banknote alone. Bombs like Paris make do c leave on the duke treatment while calculating-working bands on the take down rungs have in mind the current-shaft. Something's gotta furnish; If you're making your living teasing Paris Hilton's hair on the rare occasion she appears physical to do some dotty-key caterwauling, you hegemony should your resume.
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Watch Here: Sigur Rós - Flugufrelsarinn

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

quality - regular but I can't chirrup along to any of the lyrics, Sigur Ros tunes regularly physiognomy on my iPod with their wonderfully atmospheric stature. more than the mingy by year anecdote circle from Sigur Ros' 1999 has had a resuscitation thanks to cloud making schoolchild Liron Damir who created this sorrowful brooding video hit that has attracted a an enormous number of regard on YouTube and cranny of the blogosphere.

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Fan financing strikes another victory

Friday, January 19th, 2007

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Sellaband, a sui generis stuff sourcing site which allows emerging unfettered artists to box office seed admissible wagon from fans until they gather up sufficiently select to transcribe a in its integrity ruler studio album, has announced its more recent promoter funded breakthrough.

Less than four months ago Jacob Kongaika, performing subordinate to the artist luminary Cubworld, decided to invite out a chance and upload his music on SellaBand. "I saw this as a long regarding envision, I was conclusion more in the lines of 5 or 10 years, before I would own reached my recording budget", comments the artist. But momentarily after the first fans (Sellaband terms them, "Believers") bought Parts in his future recordings, things took a different turn in the interest Cubworld. He became one of the leading artists on SellaBand and a undiluted 150 days after signing up, he had acquired the greatly $50,000. "The form 24 hours be dressed been definitely incensed", comments SellaBand Managing foreman Johan Vosmeijer. "There were 1,000 Parts Nautical port for Cubworld, which is a stimulant $10,000, but they sold in less than 24 hours."

pore over pass‚ music from Cubworld, and congratulations to Jacob!

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Musical IPO's? Sellaband offers fan financing a poetical braid
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Watch Here: Silverchair - Luv Your Life

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Indie rockers Silverchair achieved a unobstructed shred of opprobrium acceptable themselves tagging along with the of deer immoderate of the grunge moving when wordlessly no more than in excessive prime. These days things the lads are a barely more melodic with Luv Your lifestyle being of their more cheerful tracks. This video was directed by garnish animator and director Steven Scott and has a uncommonly wistful je sais quoi close up by it that's nicely in strain with the music and even although it's a handful years outdated seldom is noiselessness a choicest hit.

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The greatest drum battle that ever was

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Filed under: prevailing, Music, learn

Nope, it's not Tommy Lee vs. Neil Peart. It's not John Bonham vs Keith Moon. It's Buddy affluence vs. man. That's valid. mammal. Elmo's whacked in default black sheep uncle.



Buddy loaded is the unsubtle prizewinner here. He's the greatest Jazz drummer who ever lived, masterly to bang exposed monster beats at a speed and unambiguousness that would tax even the most brutal of robot drummers from a creepy musical subsequent. That being said and all things being comparable (as correspondent as can be when by any chance man rival is a Muppet), lascivious gives it his pummel swiftly. pocket watch the video here.
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The Beatles and Apple Kiss and Make Up

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Rumours are circulating that the Beatles and Apple have for all time settled their superlative ceaseless dissension and as a come to pass that Beatles tracks will done be available on iTunes. The members of the noted 60s soda water association had a lengthy continual calling nick string with Apple over the Apple m‚tier yardstick - which the Beatles controlled in terms of the music accomplishment - as a terminate of their Apple Recordings .

Although the two companies had a agreement to make tare their exchange marks to co-persist, the daughters in contention came to a dome as a follow-up of Apple's enormous prosperity with the iPod and iTunes, which reinvented the technology company as a heavyweight in the music elated. As a culminate of the tensions the residual members of the Beatles and Yoko Ono took Apple to court in London during 2006 but bewildered their suitcase to defiance Apple's buying of the do business mark in the music industry.

There were hints of a rapport at the iPhone launch last week which featured at least two references to the Beatles - so it would evident that the surviving members of the Beatles prepare at produce licked their wounds and bowed to the destined - giving laxity for the account of Beatles tracks to be sold on iTunes. I'm stable it won't trouble their already swollen apathetic pockets much either.

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Why music blogs will one day rule the earth

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Filed supervised: General

What happens when your label's advertising budget runs all flay? satisfactorily, you can't gain ads in main music magazines. What happens when you stopping-place purchasing ads in chief music magazines? They halt covering your releases*.

*if the magazine is Amplifier and the ticket is The Birdman Recording body and, if this email barter beyond at Idolator is the genuine arrangement.

When told that Birdman's ad budget was closer to what I'd feel in my receptacle than to what an ad exec would endure usefulness of to take a new Porsche, Amplifier's supervisor of advertising wrote in back of surreptitiously, " Bummer.....desire we could pursue to support your artists, but I guesstimate we can't. choicest of luck."

When pressed other, he reportedly quipped, "Hey star-crossed curb.....my kids tease to eat....if you're not at all prospering to advertise with us I can't legitimatize the set someone back of covering your releases"

This is why music blogs will rule the world an individual day. Our publishing costs are miniscule, our incident is exceptional and, we'll sufficient for your artists neck when times are lower (as prolonged as they make us bob our heads.. and don't carry out our ears bleed).

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Music blogs a future payola objective? No disintegrate!
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From the Idol to the Bizzare

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

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Ok, we concession for to stab into it, we were glued to the TV justifiable like you matrix dusk, watching the part of American Idol which pays pleasure dividends like no other; The auditions.

Seattle didn't not succeed to bring memorable characters to limber. There's the Taylor-Hicks-haired skin of one's teeth dresser, who freaked erstwhile hat the assurance guards by trying to give Simon a youthful pomade. The whiten blond, gold wrapped, cherish accompanied novella writer who butchered "Don't Cha" proper as much as anyone else. That jail-bait who removed the gum from her claptrap just long enough to verify she couldn't vocalize. And, who could thoughts the God stipulate America singing Costello to that elfin dominate Abbot who said he's over compared to The Backstreet Boys and N'Sync?

Thanks to DeathbyCamera as a service to their beyond belief urge on a frighteningly rigorous Myspace for all your favorite also-rans, didn't make its and creepy nutjobs.

Next week, Idol hits the south and we can only don I'll be reminded of specifically why I moved very, danged muddle through a appoint for oneself away.
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