Disputed Nirvana box set on sale
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A box set featuring 68 unreleased Nirvana tracks goes on sale in the US, after years of legal wrangles.
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A European indie music label is taking an unusual approach to the issue of CD copy protection - it is branding all its releases with a sticker proclaiming the absence of any such control measure.
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Comment is free: Decca Aitkenhead: The connection between overpaid artists and bad albums is undeniable. Record labels are failing to turn money into music
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The limited-edition packaging is scratching some discs of the just-released game.
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Phantom sales lost to piracy? Get over it. It's time for the music labels to pull those master recordings out of storage and make some money. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Tycho:   One of the questions during a a panel at PAX had to do with the italicised line at the end of each day's post.  They're almost always song lyrics, and back before we were paying for bandwidth (and before RIAA rape gangs were prowling the web) these lines used to link directly to the MP3.  I maintained the practice afterward because it's sort of like a song of the day, and I like the idea that someone might be struck by a strange turn of phrase and seek out a piece of music.  It also serves as a gauge of my mental state at the moment.  Today's song, for example, is Stan Rodgers' incredible live version of the sea shanty "Rolling Down To Old Maui," which Pandora kicked out after about a week of tuning the station.  I've listened to it about thirty times today.    The person who asked the question at the con complimented my musical tastes, and I accepted the compliment, but I'm almost always late to the scene.  I just bought Interpol's "Turn On The Bright Lights," for chrissakes.  I'm mostly lucky to know people who do have unique library.  I told him I would mention a few of my favorite bands on the site, but then I forgot.  Essentially, it's music that cool people were listening to a decade ago (where applicable).  I am a musical carrion bird.    He wanted me to list off a few bands, and I said I would last week, but then I forgot.  These are the first ten albums I could think of.    "Starless" by Shiner
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Buying music used to be simple: You coughed up $14 or so for a CD, and as long as you didn&#39;t bootleg it or charge crowds of people to listen to it, the music was yours.
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Blog: Some record companies are experimenting with distributing albums on the portable USB devices, but for now the releases are mostly expensive collectors' items.
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7:1 split's gotta be great, right? Yeah, not so much. Flamemaster's trying to avoid delisting, and people are excited!
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'Lucy' goes for the soft sell NSFW Thanks very much to reader Nick L for alerting us to a rather strange eBayer who has decided to deploy her not inconsiderable assets as a sort of mammary display stand. Try this "auction" for a Panasonic CD player front panel:â¦
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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Pirated versions of U2's new album "How  to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" have emerged on Internet  file-sharing networks two weeks before it goes on sale,  throwing into question its official release date.
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Radioheadâs âIn Rainbows,â which was previously available for free online, is on sale in record shops on Tuesday. Will anyone buy the CD?
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The label thinks about selling its downloads without restrictions.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Metallica, which has already put out  a documentary feature, an EP and a book this year, is getting  ready to release a boxed set of albums on vinyl.
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Recording companies looking to wring more profits out of music sales are hoping to sell retailers on a new hybrid disc. On one side is standard CD audio; on the other, the enhanced sound, video and other media capabilities of a DVD.
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LOS ANGELES -  The music industry is looking ahead to life without copy protection. Major label EMI - home of Coldplay and Norah Jones - is in discussions with online music stores about selling its music without copy protection, or digital rights management (DRM), according to two sources with direct knowledge of the talks who would not speak for attribution because discussions are ongoing.