BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES

Here are some interesting thoughts about the the music industry from Kate Pierson of the quirky alternative band the B-52's.

Kate talks about the issues presented in the movie "Before the Music Dies"



“They talked a lot about branding in the movie and you’ve just never heard that term that much before. The band as a brand. It’s just a weird way that musicians have to be partly business-people now. You have to be aware of what’s going on, and I think that’s a good thing because before musicians were like, ‘Oh, we just wanna play music’ and let someone else take care of it. Musicians now, especially older musicians, realize we’ve gotta know what’s going on. A lot of it’s positive.”


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EMI GOES DRM FREE

EMI's entire music catalog will be available DRM free next month.

This means that from May 2007, you will be able to purchase any EMI song from Apple's iTunes store DRM free and in a higher quality format (256 kbps).

For a fee of 30 cents per song, you can upgrade any previously purchased DRM encoded EMI song you already have which you would have been purchased in a 128 kbps format.



[Resource http://www.techliberation.com/archives/042239.php]

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