The continuing decline in CD sales and subsequent drop in floorspace devoted to CDs remains in the news, with Wall Street analyst Richard Greenfield again pointing to year-over-year declines of 25% or more. DigitalMusicNews.com has the rather bleak picture.
Got room on your bookmarks bar for another music site? Take a look at Songza.com, which bills itself as music search engine and jukebox. It’ll search the web for whatever song you want, gives you a list of matches and then plays the one your click. Simple, eh?
Being that it’s Saturday, over at the C-J, music writer J. L. Puckett has his Digital Music column, wherein he explores - for Gannett brass, anyway - that new notion of ‘digital music.’ He suggests at look at PunkTV.ca; mentioned a new Silverchair release, and tags Swervedriver with the ‘Left of the Dial’ moniker.
Over at the C-J, J. L Puckett is touting Murfreesboro, Tennessee’s Ghostfinger plus Shinerunners at the Pour Haus for Saturday, plus a reunion of the original Java Men on Thursday at the Jazz Factory. From his Sound Effects column. Puckett also reviews the soundtrack to the Dewey Cox movie.
Velocity’s Joseph Lord picks Jamie Barnes at Quills for Friday and doubles down with Puckett on the Ghostfinger/Shinerunners show on Saturday.
LEO’s T. E. Lyons goes for a tribute to the Krazy Fest festival, called Crazy Feast, at Gatti’s on 1108 Lyndon Lane for Friday and the Shondes, Saturday at the Rudyard. He also – ta-da! – recommends the Ghostfinger/Shinerunners show
T. E. Lyons, LEO, touts shows from the Shondes and Shinerunners and a weird reinclonement of Krazy Fest, called Crazy Feast, held at a Mr. Gatti’s Pizza. Really.
Besides listing cool bands to go hear, the C-J’s Joseph Lord does his Louisville, dutifully noting in his blog the continuing uncertainty of the release of Louisvillian Nicole Scherzinger’s new CD.
Being Christmas and all, Velocity Joseph Lord was assigned to review ‘Rock Band,’ the game. So he though he’d get the boys from Glasspack do act as testers. Pretty good target selection, it would seem. Read the article here and don’t overlook the ‘hint-hint, nudge-nudge’ sections concerning Glasspack’s um, approach, to the game.
David Byrne, formerly with Talking Heads, has a terrific article in the latest Wired.com magazine, in which he gives a clear overview of the state of the music and CD businesses and various ways that artists can deal with a near-term future in which major record companies go under.
A post on the Backseat Sandbar blog has a thoughtful review of the Label X Showcase at Headliners on December 16. Posted by nicholashart.
A small item showed up on digitalmusicnews.com this a.m.:”Jupitermedia has now purchased Flying Hands Media…” Flying Hands Media is a royalty-free music seller established in Louisville by Ray Yates and Brian Curella. Yates is a keyboard player with a strong interest in the digital world; he published dozens of CDs of royalty-free background and production music. He moved to Florida from Louisville two years ago.