David Emery OnlineRock Band to Get its Own Music Marketplace
Rock Band Network, currently in closed beta, should launch to the public in August (with in-game sales later in the year), and allow for any wanne-be or tried-and-true beat master, music mixer, or soulful singer to add their music to the Rock Band catalogue for user purchase and game play.
It’s easy to forget, but the Rock Band and Guitar Hero track stores do a staggering amount of business so it’s great that they’re opening up. Also very useful, considering they may become chart eligible soon.
Visit ➔From Moby
How’s it going?
The album just came out and it would be #1 euro charts if not for michael jackson re-releases.
So that’s good.
But here’s something funny: the best selling itunes track is ’shot in the back of the head’.
Why is that funny?
Because its the track we’ve been giving away for free for the last 2 months and that we’re still givng away for free.
Odd.
How are you?
Moby
We’ve had many similar experiences – giving away a track can lead to higher sales; for example, at exactly the same time we were giving away The Horrors ‘Sea Within A Sea’ from their website we were seeing great sales of the track on iTunes (and it’s still the second most popular track from the album on there, even though we’re still giving it away).
Visit ➔Girls - Hellhole Ratrace
Such a good song – it sounds ‘classic’ from the very first time you hear it.
Visit ➔Discovery
We’ve just launched this little one-page site for Discovery, the new project by members of Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot. It’s great – I think (unless something else comes along) it’s the sound of the summer for me.
Also, look out for some mildly interesting js-based scaling and layout on the site, keeping everything in check.
Visit ➔Fanfarlo - Reservoir for $1
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As regular readers will know I’m a fan of Fanfarlo, and their debut album Reservoir is a brilliant piece of work (for the lazy/NME journalist in you: think Arcade Fire meets Beirut. Ish). If you haven’t picked it up already, you now have no excuse – they’re selling it for $1 (with some extra tracks to boot!).
Go now, it will be the best $1 (62p!) you’ve spent all year.
Visit ➔The New Jack Penate Website
At work we’ve just launched the new site for Jack Peñate, which features all kinds of jParallax-based crazy scrolling flowers.
Really happy with the way this one turned out…
Visit ➔The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 to 20
Such a lovely little song - think LCD Soundsystem with a dash of early CSS.
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 to 20
Visit ➔SoundCloud’s Terms and Conditions - Are they fair and reasonable ?
Have you read SoundCloud’s Terms and Conditions ? Did you know that by signing up, you grant them (and their successors) the right to do almost anything they like with your music? For free? Forever?
The article goes on to say how they’re sure that SoundCloud aren’t going to do anything nasty with their your content, and I agree but that really misses the point; what happens – and this isn’t too far fetched – if SoundCloud gets bought up by someone who has lesser morals? The T&Cs are quite clear – they could do almost anything they like with your content.
This isn’t a problem unique to SoundCloud either – web darlings Vimeo and ustream.tv both have similar conditions in their T&Cs. This is the really boring side of working on the edge of developing technologies, but in the long run do you really want some little web startup owning your content?
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