From Trent Reznor:
Nine Inch Nails is pleased to announce the expansion of the Ghosts project into the visual world. The band has teamed up with YouTube to host a “film festival” around Ghosts. The concept is for you to take whatever tracks you feel inspired by and create what you feel should accompany them visually. [...]
In an article on ARS Technica, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor called Radiohead’s well-publicized internet album-release “insincere.” While he admitted the idea was “shrewd,” he said it amounted to nothing more than tricking fans into paying for low-quality MP3s, while promoting just another traditional record release.
For more details, read the full story on [...]
Jonathan Coulton roxxors my soxxors. All of his songs are under Creative Commons, which means that people can use them for their own nefarious purposes. Often, this comes in the form of bad music videos on YouTube.
Among the early favorites:
Code Monkey
Re: Your Brains
Still Alive
W’s Duty
He has a MySpace profile as well.
Trent Reznor made this announcement on the Nine Inch Nails website yesterday. Could be interesting. Frankly, I still don’t see it helping the small, independent musician to get noticed.
Tommy Emmanuel and Jake Shimabukuro have it out…
A guy named Mike Masse performed and recorded his own version of Boston’s “A Man I’ll Never Be” as a tribute to the late, great Brad Delp. Those who are fans of Project Studio Network have likely already heard it, but in case it slipped past you, here’s a link to the song as [...]
According to RUMINT, music mogul Jay Z and the squeezalicious Beyonce may be preparing to join up with Apple, Inc. to start a new online record label of some sort. Jay Z is currently the CEO of Def Jam Records and Beyonce is, reportedly, nearing the end of her contract.
According to MediaTakeOut.com:
Jay Z will [...]
