Informative article on Boing Boing about labels losing money, but artists seem to be making dough still:
The Times Labs blog takes a hard look at the data on music sales and live performances and concludes that while the labels’ profits might be falling, artists are taking in more money, thanks to the booming growth of [...]

In October, YouTube hosted one of the biggest live streaming events ever held: a U2 concert generating more than 10 million streams across 7 continents.Now YouTube is looking to repeat that success, with an Alicia Keys concert being live streamed on December 1st at 8pm ET.The concert, to be held at the Nokia Theatre in [...]

I was driving my baby boy to daycare this morning and we were listening to the radio, when a really cool song came on and my baby Joey and I started clapping and laughing to it. So I shazammed it and there were no results! Which sux ’cause I would have tweeted it from Shazam [...]

Tom Waits has released a new live album recorded on his 2008 tour called Glitter and Doom. It’s a double CD set that has a disc that is just Tom talking, telling jokes, etc. It sounds fantastic! Typical Tom Waits awesomeness. You can take a listen over at Paste Magazine: Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom [...]

Thanks to Boing Boing for posting about this:

My film director pal Scott Compton just finished shooting a documentary about singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet. Scott and collaborator John Behrens joined Prophet and his band in Mexico City earlier this year where the group recorded ¡Let Freedom Ring!, an album of “political songs for non political people.” My [...]

Souns pretty cool, but I can’t say I like the name…
Sony is one of world’s best known brands when it comes to home electronics, gadgetry, and entertainment.However, the landscape has changed in recent years. You can have the best media player around, but if you don’t offer users a place where they can easily get [...]

Posted over at Letters of Note, is this letter from Kurt Cobain to William S. Burroughs, asking him to appear in the video for Heart-Shaped Box. A year prior, they had collaborated on The Priest They Called Him which is one of the 5 or 6 albums I still have a hard copy of. It’s [...]

It is time for all those best of 2009 lists. Well i stumbled across an artist “THE UNIT BREED” who had some interesting lists of his own CHECK THIS OUT
Top 3 dreams this month
1. swimming with my dad while he explains how he will be island hopping by holding onto a rope tied to a [...]

I’m constantly talking about how the music industry needs to adapt better to the changing times and technology, instead of waiting around for the tech companies to do it, like Apple did with iTunes. It extends to television as well, and televised sports, etc. The companies that make money from people watching their television, sports [...]

Are you ready for holiday music!!!
here is a free legal holiday album 11 bands from all over world http://www.xopublicity.com/xofortheholidays2.html
great holiday music! please do share with anyone!
album is called “xo for the holidays” volume II