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Live music like it’s meant to be

Jan 4, ’10 8:48 PM

Found a new favorite website, courtesy of, of all places, Deus Ex Malcontent. It’s From the Basement, a website set up to showcase live performances from artists in a studio setting. Filmed entirely in HD, sans host and audience, and lovingly produced by Nigel Godrich, the engineer & producer best known for his work with Radiohead. His credits list is impressive even beyond his work with that group, but what I’m really keen on is just how awesome everything looks & sounds in these recordings. The one that sucked me in though, is actually a recording that’s not on the website, but available for purchase as part of a video album on iTunes, In Rainbows — From the Basement. Thankfully, there’s a YouTube version of the video. And so, I present Radiohead’s “All I Need”, From the Basement:

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Warner Music Group: Profit & Loss

Nov 29, ’07 9:00 PM

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Seems that Warner didn’t do too well money-wise this fiscal year. According to an article at Mashable!, it seems they did $5 million in profit out of $869 million in revenue. Seems they’re finally feeling the pinch from going to war against their consumers. As quoted in the article:

The RIAA and the lesser known but similar IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) receive funding primarily from EMI, Warner, Sony BMG and Universal. Estimates put the combined funding at an approximate $132.48 million a year. Sony and Universal haven’t been recently vocal about their feelings on the RIAA, but Time Warner CEO Egar Bronfman recently confessed that ‘We were wrong to go to war with consumers.’

The article at Mashable goes on to compare these profits to Radiohead’s recent “pay if you want to” bit with their latest album, saying:

That’s right, even by the most critical of earnings estimates, Radiohead made between half as much to as high as twice as much as the entire Warner label made in profit this year.

When you can make more money giving music away, do you think that perhaps it is time for a new strategy, Bronfman?

(Via PaidContent by way of Mashable!)

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As if we needed more proof…

Oct 15, ’07 5:23 PM

I’m not gonna claim that last.fm is the end-all be-all of song playcounts, but it’s one of the biggest sites like it out there, so this is pretty accurate I’d say.

Spot the difference:

What a week. From the moment Radiohead announced their plans for latest release ‘In Rainbows’ we’ve been itching to see how you, the listeners, would respond. We let our friends over at Drowned In Sound in on some early data after just 12 hours. Now that our weekly charts are compiled there’s not much else to say apart from ‘Wowzer’. Below you can see the Last.fm global tracks chart for last week, and below that the official UK downloads chart for the same period. Spot the difference?

Last.fm global tracks chart - Week Ending Oct 14
Last.fm global tracks chart for week ending October 14th

Official UK Downloads chart - Week Starting Oct 15
Official UK downloads chart — Week Starting October 15th

(Via Last.fm – the Blog.)

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