Deep Thoughts
We have Comcast cable at our house, and you can watch music videos with On Demand. A few months ago I saw Antony & The Johnsons "Hope There's Someone," and enjoyed it, so this weekend when I noticed it was on the list of videos again, I put it on,...
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The returns are in, and, according to this article from Reuters,
the music industry has hit an eight year low for sales. Among
corporate labels, there is much fretting and wringing of hands.
Reuters,
however, fail to recognize the non-major label music industry, who
don't seem to be pissing and moaning.
Major labels are a dying breed due to their own avarice, and nobody's
gonna cry when they die.
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Recently brought to my attention by a Brainwashed colleague, the online-based "PLUG Independent Music Awards"
touts itself as representing a "community coming together to recognize
its own." Yet, judging by the choices on the ballot, the "plug" of its
namesake apparently serves instead as a tool to keep both the
organizers' and participants' heads securely buried within their own
assholes.
- Written by: Gary Suarez
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Our kindergarten teachers always told us how we should be sharing, but
the RIAA would have you believe otherwise. Looking at any recent
major label release, the packaging is pretty much destroyed now with
big blocks of text, an FBI symbol and a warning. Unfortunately,
monster megalith Sony BMG isn't out to warn the consumer or provide any
information that they're illegally loading "malware" (malicious software) onto unsuspecting
machines.
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A recent piece from The Nation
offers some compelling questions that the so-called "Katrina
Commission" should aim to answer. Unfortunately, the unsurprisingly
Republican-helmed congressional investigation will almost certainly
leave many of the concerns expressed unanswered as politics-as-usual
trumps justice.
- Written by: Gary Suarez
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