Blinded by the Hype
Friday, September 8th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, Film, Music | No Comments »According to most of the bands and artists I know, the Internet is going to break them into the spotlight. They saw how big the Arctic Monkeys got by using the Internet to establish a massive fan base that shot ...
MySpace + Snocap = profit?
Thursday, September 7th, 2006 Posted in Digital Rights Management, Distribution, Music | No Comments »Recently MySpace (like you really need a link) announced that they are seriously looking into providing a for-sale digital music service: "The goal is to be one of the biggest digital music stores out there," MySpace co-founder ...
The future of Wi-Fi
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music, Satellite Radio | No Comments »Last night, before the weekly FS evening meeting Maer, Chris and I started discussing a recent article in the NY Times that Christopher had sent out to all the Fake Scientists. The article focuses on the new "tastemakers" and services ...
Fake Science Remix Contest — Vote now!!
Monday, August 28th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music | No Comments »A while back I announced the Fake Science and Monkey Love Records Remix contest. Over the last 2 months we were taking submissions and we have now closed the submission process and voting is open to the public! You can ...
Re-education
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music | No Comments »Sometimes your initial impression of a service is just off. When I first heard of Magnatune a few years back I thought they were a digital music store that worked with unsigned artists. Too be perfectly honest, they where a ...
Back from the dead…
Monday, August 21st, 2006 Posted in General Media / Stuff, djing | No Comments »Hello all, I am back. Things have been crazy busy over the last few months both in new work and changing focus. One of my goals when I left Adobe was to spend more time working on the blog and ...
Remix Contest (win an iPod Nano)
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music | No Comments »Last week Monkey Love Records and Fake Science launched our first remix contest, featuring “Stringing Away Revisited†by Robberriff. We have licensed the song under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License which allows you to download the song, hack it ...
To download or not to download?
Thursday, May 18th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music | 1 Comment »Do you know what the number 2 digital music store is? If you look at current market reports they say that eMusic owns 9% and therefore is second only to iTunes 80% market share. The interesting thing about ...
Educational Dopeness
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006 Posted in General Media / Stuff, Music | No Comments »Yeah, I know dopeness isn’t a word, but whatever. Over at my favorite music info blog, Create Digital Music, Peter posted a link to the Philharmonia orchestra site. What is interesting about this site is they break down ...
The Growth of Internet Music Stars
Thursday, April 6th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music | 1 Comment »Over the last year we have been seeing more and more success stories about artists using the internet as a way to establish a fan base. One of the first “breakout†artists was Geoff Byrd. Geoff used Garageband.com ...
