Remember the days when games were based on other media? Now that games outpace music, the tables have turned: music now borrows from games. Sarah Brightman’s latest album, Symphony, features concept art from ArenaNet’s online game Guild Wars.
Sarah herself approached ArenaNet art director Daniel Dociu. Who says artsy chicks don’t dig geeky stuff?
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Dating coach Wayne Elise once said women don’t want an engineer who looks like an engineer, they want an engineer who looks like a record producer. In that case, women will want Douglas Merrill. The eminently progressive CIO of Google is leaving his illustrious post to become President of EMI Digital Business on April 28.
Yes, […]
The rise of geek culture has created a convergence of culture vultures and number crunchers. No truer is that convergence than in the song chart meme going around Flickr, where the central ideas of classic song lyrics are depicted as pie charts, line graphs, Venn diagrams, map overlays, bar graphs, flowcharts, and other graphical geekery.
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Stan Schroeder strikes an interesting comparison. Journalists freely distribute content and still make money. Why the Hell can’t musicians do the same?
The thing is, us journalists are often criticized by musicians and music label execs when we write about the zero cost of copying music and the pointlessness of RIAA’s desperate schemes; the criticism is […]
Have you heard of Ashley Alexandra Dupre? Thanks to MySpace and the clued-in folks at the New York Times, you will.
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Today’s musicians are lucky. They can operate without a record label. The Beatles were not so fortunate.
The company that owns the rights to a vast majority of The Beatles music catalog has questioned reports that the Fab Four have cut a deal with Steve Jobs.
Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the joint venture owned by Sony and singer […]
See, this is part of the reason Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor is so enduringly popular. Unlike Metallica, he knows what the Hell’s going on.
At first, Reznor considered putting his new album Ghosts I-IV out on a pay-what-you-like basis, a la Radiohead’s In Rainbows. Fortunately, Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig convinced Reznor that attribution would […]
While pigs fly over a frozen Hell, Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman admits Warner was wrong to go to war with its own customers.
“We used to fool ourselves. We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of […]
We always knew the recording industry’s whining about losing billions to P2P was all exaggerated bullshit. Now a new Canadian government study confirms it. In fact, P2P downloads promote CD sales.
A newly study commissioned by Industry Canada, which includes some of the most extensive surveying to date of the Canadian population on music purchasing habits, […]
Anyone who thinks the Internet is killing the music industry (*cough*EltonJohn*cough*Metallica*cough*) is fallaciously equating the music industry with the plastic disc industry. Consider the following numbers from Chris Anderson:
* Concerts and merchandise: UP (+4%)
* Digital tracks: UP (+46%)
* Ringtones: UP (+86% last year, but probably just single-digit percent this year)
* Licensing for commercials, TV […]
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Written by Mike Abundo [email] for b5media.
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