Posts Tagged ‘Spotify’
Muse Upset With Record Label
Chris Wolstenholme, bassist for Muse, is a bit upset with the band’s record label. Warner Music will no longer license Muse’s, and several other artists’, music on free streaming services such as Spotify.
Warner Music CEO, Edgar Bromfman, stated earlier this month, “free streaming services are clearly not positive for the industry.” Wait, but suing your fans and consumers is a positive for the industry?
Wolstenholme countered with, “it’s like taking your song off the radio, isn’t it? The corporations are setting rules on these things because they’re clutching at the straws. They’ve lost so much money on record sales because of the internet.” He then added, “as far as bands are concerned, you just want people to hear your music whichever way they can.”
And now my take? When our generation take hold of CEO positions, and the like, I wonder if things will be different? Will be understand the market a bit better because we’re currently living through it? I understand there needs to be money made to sustain these companies and artists, but I also understand that there has been change underway. Turning your back towards change isn’t the solution.
Today’s Quickies
Diligent.Me gives us his February 2010 mixtape. I’m getting pretty addicted following his mixtape releases.
Luke Lewis, of NME.com, talks about music you once loved, but now can’t stand to listen to. Mine would have to be the entire ‘Purple’ album by the Stone Temple Pilots. As much as I loved that album, I can’t get myself to turn that baby on any longer. What’s yours?
Here’s a brief discussion on the pirate’s guide to paying for music. The authors touch base on Zune, Spotify, and Play.me.
Frances Bean Cobain, yes the daughter of Courtney Love and the late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, is getting set to make her singing debut. We’ll see the track in late March.
We learned, from guardian.co.uk, of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler had auditioned for a possible Led Zeppelin reunion. And Tyler was rejected because he barely knew the Zeppelin catalog.
Justin Timberlake will be heading to Harvard to be honored as Hasty Pudding Man of the Year. The Grammy and Emmy award winner will receive his pudding pot from the nation’s oldest undergraduate drama troupe at a roast scheduled for Friday.