Coverage: Vampire Weekend, “Exit Music (for a Film)”
Guest blogger Scott says: Yet another example of “literate, geeky bands with overeducated lead singers.” Vampire Weekend isn’t the sort of sound I normally like, but any band that writes a song that...
View ArticlePoor concert etiquette, illustrated
Guest blogger Scott, who’s familiar with my preferences regarding singing at concerts, says: This isn’t necessarily a great cover, but it’s one of the best illustrations imaginable (short of a...
View ArticleHow successful was the In Rainbows download?
According to today’s NME, Radiohead report that the three months of pay-what-you-will In Rainbows downloads brought in as much cash as 2003′s Hail to the Thief, although they aren’t reporting the...
View ArticleThe name-your-own-price model: some data
Indie musicians are thinking and talking about the name-your-own-price model for digital music (what Radiohead did with their last album). There’s a dearth of data though—Radiohead, for example, never...
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