The death of Michael Jackson - like so many celebrity deaths - has brought with it a swathe of responses, both from the public and in the media. Anyone who ever met him gets dragged out to talk about ‘their relationship’, and anyone remotely famous...
Topics: celebrity, fame, michael jackson, Musing on Music, obituaries

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For quite a few years before all this social media stuff got properly conversational, this site was the home of a burgeoning forum. It was created in PHPBB and was home to many a wonderful discussion about all kinds of things, some of them directly...
Topics: forum, site updates, solobasssteve, twitter, wordpress

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I have a friend who works in Marketing for Sungard - they’re a huge, multi-national, multi-billion dollar IT Services/financial information/Software company. Massive. Bigger than big.What interesting for us musical types is their response to the...
Topics: downloads, finance, financial crisis, flickr, industry, sungard, the future of music, twitter, universal, virgin, wordpress, youtube

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Ralston Story I:When The Cheat and I first visited Grand Rapids in 2004, for Sarda and Kari’s wedding, they introduced us to their Neighbour, Ralston Bowles. As well as having an unusually brilliant name, he was introduced to us as being a...
Topics: ralston bowles, Random Catchup

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Following on from yesterday’s post about the anachronistic nature of the term ‘label’, I’ve been having a think about the actual format that music is released in.It’s amazing how containers can make us lazy about content. The...
Topics: ben walker, cds, marketing, mp3s, the future of music

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