**UPDATE 10/11/07**
It looks as tho Oasis, Jamiorquai and Madonna have followed suit! WOW Its no longer a matter of when but how fast the music industry will fall… we’ll listen and see!
Original Post
Music, musicians and their songs are a controversial commodity these days. The RIAA just recently fined some woman for sharing music online, the first of this sort. And now Radiohead and NIN have left their respective labels to pursue music promotion and sales themselves. Could this be yet another evolution to Music 2.0?
Music 2.0, how its delivered: Myspace, Podcasts, iTunes
Indie artists have been flooding the online cloud.
More than ever the amateur and yet-to-be-discovered artists are grasping the tools of the internet to share their talents (or lack there of) to the online community. Weekly, I get seemingly random friend requests on Myspace from up and coming bands. I click on through and some of them are actually good! It looks like they may be onto something as some successful mainstream musicians are following suite and becoming independent again.
Heyyyy its MikeyBoy here!
Just 4 years ago podcasting through crude RSS feeds started hitting the online airwaves. Recording and posting these sound/music clips is very easy, anyone with their home computer can do it. 4 years later this phenomenon has grown into a full commercial commodity. The simplicity of creating and popularity of listening to these podcasts creates, with continuing momentum, the perfect vehicle for everyone from the garage band artist to the multi platinum artists to get their creations to your ears!!
Full circle, mainstream again.
The most popular podcast harvester out there, iTunes, this software makes acquiring these podcasts and songs even easier. Apple has recently teamed up with the coffee-walmart of the work, Starbucks. Through this partnership, $.99 and theclick of a few virtual buttons on a touchscreen handheld device your ears are activated with sound waves from just about anyone.
Congratulations Mr. Trent Reznor, welcome to music 2.0.
