David Emery OnlineMySpace opens its garden, allows third-party data sharing
A very promising start, although it seems to be limited to ‘people’ at the moment – I’d really like to hack away at getting data from artist profiles. It’s good to see MySpace finally getting their shit together, what with this and the recent redesign – they just need to redesign profile pages next…
Visit ➔An Essential Dozen: 2008's best albums so far
I was considering posting a ‘albums of the year so far’ type post, but this pretty much covers it (bar a few exceptions, which I’m sure they’ll have in tomorrows follow up best). Not often you come across a music related list you wholly agree with…
Visit ➔OK Computer, Scanner, Dot Matrix Printer…
I assume that everyone reading this has probably seen the ‘Radiohead’s Nude played by old computer bits’ video already (although I’ve embedded it below just in case), but the ever-interesting Creative Review blog have just posted a nice little interview with its creator, James Houston.
Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
Play Magnatune music on your blog
I’m not sure why more labels and shops don’t let you embed streaming players of their music – it’s great promotion.
Visit ➔Metallica Repents, Sort Of
This is not how to do it. I love that they make a big fuss about pre-ordering and getting the music “first” where first means “midnight on the day of release”, which is the same time you’ll be able to get it on every other download service (and probably cheaper, too).
They seem to have watched Radiohead and NIN do their thing, and ripped it off without any of the innovation or interest. $125 for a 5 LP + CD + Download + “Platinum Mission:Metallica Experience“ (which seems to amount to some live recordings and ringtones…) doesn’t exactly seem like a great deal.
Visit ➔Sharing mixtapes is an unstoppable idea. Muxtape is not.
Anthony’s not wrong – the concept of a mixtape or sharing a playlist of tracks with your friends is obviously one that resonates, but centralisation like Muxtape will only lead to the traditional set of legal problems (which will no doubt cripple it).
Decentralisation is the solution.
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