8Tracks

Discovered a new music website 8Tracks. Similar to Blip.fm but with more ability to create and listen to playlists.    Who said the age of the cassette compo was...

Record LP Sales

There’s been something of a buzz on Nielsen’s data for US music sales in 2008. Not surprisingly it shows CDs hit by purely digital music, but also a sharp increase in LP sales. Lucas Mearian’s article Back to the future: Vinyl record sales double in ’08, CDs down is worth reading...

Irish dropped Bollocks

A thoroughly entertaining snippet in the Gruaniad this morning (nicked from the Irish Times) on the reception of Punk and the Sex Pistols by the Irish authorities and how Anglo Saxon ribaldry upset their Celtic delicates. Recently released Irish government papers reveals what in 1977, the Garda...

The CD is dead, long live the…

Those creators of the future Gartner have posted a valediction for bidding mourning for the CD. The precogs say that this should be the last christmas for the format: 2008 Should Be the Last Christmas for Retail CDs. Having spent a most pleasant time with the people at Dada Records in Chiswick just before...

BBC provides Corporate Theme Tunes

The ever commercially minded BBC is sitting on an audio goldmine. Why have a Corporate Audio Brand that sounds like a 1970s soap opera when you can mine the motherload from the BBC’s BBC Radiophonic Workshop? If you want to hear what I mean, then, simply take a trip to Dinosaur Gardens where their...