In the City/Unconvention, Day 1 |
I eventually made it to Manchester @ 6pm, just in time for the NIMIC showcase.Ross & the Northern Ireland Music Industry Commission are, I believe, a model industry body - publicly funded, NIMIC suppo...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:14:00 GMT |
Tom McShane Sessions: Free Downloads for Limited Time |
Just listening to the new session tracks uploaded by Tom McShane - Nice!In the run up to the launch of Tom's Split 7? single, "Fighter", on June 23rd, there are some free downloads of some rare Tom Mc...
Posted by on Mon, 26 May 2008 15:18:00 GMT |
Radiohead & In Rainbows - Pushing boundaries in Music Publishing, too. |
There seems to have been a touch of serendipity at play in Radiohead's decision to offer their latest album as a pay-as-you-want download. As the band's managers told David Byrne in his recent Wired i...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:18:00 GMT |
Astral Weeks - Revisited |
Couldn't let this go by without a quick mention: 2008 marks the 40th anniversay of Astral Weeks by Van Morrison. I tend to believe that art is intrinsically linked to the place of it's creation, or at...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:45:00 GMT |
Top 10 Records of 2007 |
Lists, lists, lists. Here's mine! Side note: It's obvious to anyone at this point that Departures by Tom McShane, Mistake: Do Over by The Terribles and Forty-Four Stone Tigers by Ove...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:58:00 GMT |
Tom McShane Tour Kickoff! |
We had fun and frivolity at the warm-up show for Tom McShane's tour last Saturday in San Rafael (more on that over at Tom's blog), but now the real traveling begins. The rest of the tour lines up like...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:55:00 GMT |
360 Degree Artist Deals |
Just read this article from the New York Times about the "new model" for record labels, called 360 or multiple rights deals. "&artists share (with labels) not just revenue from their album sales but c...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:51:00 GMT |
New Music from Penny Distribution |
Hello!Happy Days here at Penny Distribution as the debut releases from Tom McShane and The Terribles are released today! "Released", of course, being a very relative term in this day and age......
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:59:00 GMT |
Word Du Jour: Hubris |
Can't believe it's been so long since a post&although it's not that I've been idle. Just a few of things that've been happening lately: Final preparations for the two debut releases from Penny ...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:03:00 GMT |
Califone |
Just in case you cared, I love Califone, and have so for 3 years. The video for "Eye you lost in the Crusades" is over at Thrill Jockey and is amazing, as is the song (and the album, "Roots &...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:21:00 GMT |
