Indie Music Blog Gets It Right
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Weekly unique recordings by artists you love put Daytrotter on the short list of good sonic sites. By Eric Steuer from Wired magazine. Plus: Music reviews.
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Readers remark on lunar landings, the future of Apple music and journalistic integrity. Plus: Links to our most popular blog posts.
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Interesting music does not tell us to be good or bad. It asks only to be admired. Getting great music and simple faith together happens, but with difficulty.
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PayPlay.FM is offering its 1.3 million indie songs in DRM-free MP3 format for $0.88 each.
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The British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) recently launched a "Music Manifesto" campaign, with the ostensible intention of educating the next generation of British musicians. Unfortunately, they also teamed up with the music industry (EMI, and various artists) to make this popular. EMI has apparently negotiated their end well, so that children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music.The ignorance and audacity of this got to me a little, so I wrote an open letter to the DfES about it. Unfortunately, it's pedantic, as I suppose you have to be when writing to goverment representatives. But I hope you find it useful, and perhaps feel inspired to do something similar, if or when the same thing has happened in your area.
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Though digital music has come a long way, today's online music stores still have significant problems. Here's my fix-it wish list.
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The British music industry wants to help independent labels utilise the potential for download sales.
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A homegrown YouTube singing sensation isn't all organic ... but don't panic.
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For all of the talk of him playing weird music, Peel played Status Quo&#39;s &quot;Whatever you want&quot; the other week. He played music as it actually is: an unholy mess, a mixture of old and new, some bands having sold
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A site for searching, compiling and downloading music called BlogMusik acts like a publicly available online iPod for anyone to use. And it's only the beginning of a movement that could become the "Napster" of Web 2.0.  In Listening Post.
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Newspaper is criticized for writing that recording industry wants to criminalize copying music to a computer. RIAA and even some of the group's biggest critics say Post got it wrong.
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Though the album has its moments, it's not entirely enticing.
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Unsigned and indie artists for  years have sold CDs and tapes from their merchandise table at  live gigs to earn a little extra scratch while on the road.
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Blog: Blogs: they're here. They're read. Get used to it.
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But look to lawsuit stick rather than iTunes carrot for the cause
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A British band has funded its first  album entirely via a new Web site which allows up-and-coming  acts to bypass record labels and gives fans the chance to buy  into their success.
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Readers sound off on the joys of sticking to the formula, the history of digital music, and who needs saving. Plus: Links to our most commented blog posts.