We haven’t spoken much about it on Unreality Music before, but the revolution in the music industry is something we follow quite closely.
The last few months have been pretty interesting. I’m thinking back to Prince’s freebie distribution of his Planet Earth in a Sunday paper. Lately, we’ve had Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails dissing and then divorcing his record label. Radiohead have gone and released their album over the Internet, allowing fans to pay whatever they think the album’s worth.
There’s an interesting article over on the CNN website about all this, citing other major artists making innovative decisions about their careers:
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The phrase ‘cybersquatting’ hasn’t been used in many a year, but its cropped up again as AC/DC have recently acquired the rights to the acdc.com domain name.
It seems for a number of years, acdc.com was actually a porn site. The owners cashed in on fans who typed in the domain name expecting to find information about the band, but instead they got a wide variety of porno.
Although the band are well known for sexual innuendo in their songs, apparently the porn link was a ‘touch too much’:
“The young fans are so net savvy it’s the first thing they do,” label manager Sam Horsburgh told News.com.au. “The push to get it back came predominantly because they knew there were a lot of younger fans coming through.”
“Feel free to visit us from work, school or, for long-time visitors to the site, from the usual privacy of your basement,” a statement issued by band members said.
Good news for AC/DC, and apparently they’re on the verge of releasing a new 5-disc live DVD. Just in time for Christmas.
2007 is definitely a watershed moment in post-Led Zeppelin history. Not only do we have a one-off gig by the remaining members of the band, but there’s a new ‘Best Of’ compilation, Mothership coming up for release. The biggest news of all is that the band have finally succumbed to releasing their music via digital downloads.
This is a big deal for Led Zeppelin. Remember, this is a band who refused to release singles in the UK and who thought that their albums should be experienced as a complete package.
Now, people will be able to buy selected tracks individually. I hesitate to say ‘fans’, because any self-respecting fan will have the entire back catalogue anyway! Imagine buying The Rain Song without having Over The Hills And Far Away. Or Stairway To Heaven not being preceded by The Battle Of Evermore.
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I came across a great site on my travels across cyberspace this evening. The Filter is a music discovery website in a similar vein to Pandora that helps you to find music you’ll like based on your favourite artists.
As well as being able to search for music via the website, you can download a piece of software that plugs into your iTunes or Windows Media Player and it’ll give you recommendations based on your MP3 collection.
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