When Kanye West released his first single from his new album many people scoffed and took out their sharpest carving knives. You could count me among them. I was not a fan of his singing or the cher-iffic vocal effect. But after seeing Kanye preform on Saturday Night Live my mind was changed. Not because [...]
I came across an article on adage.com featuring Mr. Bryce Edge, Radiohead’s long-time manager (since 1991). In it he discusses the reason Radiohead went the way of their now famous “Pay What You Want” model. What might be more interesting to you as an artist, is what he has to say about promoting new [...]
So you may have heard this about ‘In Rainbows’: • After being made available for free for 3 months the album was no.1 in the UK and in the US • 1st Radiohead album on iTunes – no.1 album selling 30,000 units in the US in the first week • The physical CD has sold [...]
A group of established artists in the U.K like Radiohead, Travis, and Iron Maiden have all recently banded to form the Featured Artists Coalition. With the power shifting from label to artist, this growing group of U.K artists are taking matters into their own hands and have formed a group representing the rights of artists [...]
In yet another example of how radiohead have millions of spies among us they have released the Reckoner and are breaking up the tune into pieces for everyone to remix. Radiohead, as you may have known, recently release NUDE for remix and had an unprecedented number of visitors: Unique visitors: Unique visitors: 6,193,776, Page Views: [...]
A new file format that offers separate volume controls for each musical instrument, such as guitar, drum, base and voice, is being considered as a new Internet standard.The new .MT9 file format, which a commercial title of “Music 2.0″, was selected as a candidate for consideration at a regular meeting of Motion Picture Experts Group [...]
Glasvegas: Blogs, Buzz, & Sticky Products
Have you read Malcolm Gladwell‘s ‘The Tipping Point‘? If not, I would recommend that you do. It’s not only a great read, but it offers an interesting perspective on why some things reach the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point, the Tipping Point if you will, while others languish in the underbelly [...]