Take your DRM and shove it

[kosmo vinyl]

for those eMusic subscribers looking for new items to download, two of my absolute favs have recently been added.  The Sugarplastic, best in 05, and Splitsville. check em' out if you haven't blown your downloads on John Denver cds.

[brennser]

thanks kosmo
 
 anyone else looking for good stuff to download should also try John Doe and The SPinto Band - different styles but both excellent

[kosmo vinyl]

eMusic Albums on WOXY's Best of 2005 List (34 of 97)
 
  11 of Metacritics top 30 albums
 
 18 albums from Pitchdorks list...
 
 Just in case if anyone was wondering if eMusic was any good or not, that is if you like "indie" rock.

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

I recently read that producer Sandy Pearlman was one of the founders of e-music......is this true I wonder?

[kosmo vinyl]

appears to be the case...

I don't like emusic.  I need to have a jewelcase with cover art to fetish & fondle.

[kosmo vinyl]

Well Jerry agress with you
 
 "For Casale, however, success is still defined by seeing his music on CDs in record store bins.
 
 "That's the logical conclusion," he said. "People want objects. It's a fetish."
 
 But...
 
 n 1978, Devo frontman Gerald Casale spotted his band's debut LP in a record store bin for the first time. He was struck by an undeniable thought: the band had made it.
 
 "It's what you've been busting your butt for and finally, it happens," Casale said.
 
 Seeing the latest release by his new group hit a virtual bin as a digital file on Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store was less than exciting by comparison.
 
 "This time it's like window shopping," said Casale. His new music is distributed by Cordless Recordings, a new breed of label that has dumped CDs and other traditional formats in favor of offering music only online.
 
 the link
 
 http://www.cordless.com/

[kosmo vinyl]

I agree that the physical media is important, the CD booklet not so much... Unless it's an anthology or greatest hits with an essay or liner notes,it's not likely I'll flip through the booklet more than once, which could easily be downloaded from a website.

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 Happy (bleated) New Year, BTW

[kosmo vinyl]

looks like eMusic has moved beyond Mountain Goats! today new additions include Cherry Red Records with a Felt Greatest Hits, Eyeless in Gaza, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry and a really great compliation of the labels history.
 
 Add in the Butthole Surfers catalog, some Pere Ubu, Dio, and some Vital PIAS Digital labels.  Vital PIAS represents some great UK labels like Domino, Drowned in sound, Setenta, Wall of sound, Skint, Warp, hopefully some of those some in the near future.

[kosmo vinyl]

three letters - SST

[kosmo vinyl]

<img src="http://www.8ball.co.uk/productimages/17254-1.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
 The Untouchables
 Wreckless Eric
 Any Trouble
 Desmond Dekker
 Dirty Looks
 Electric Guitars
 The Equators
 Jona Lewie
 Kirsty Maccoll
 Lew Lewis
 Micky Jupp
 Mint Juleps
 Passion Puppets
 Rachel Sweet
 Ruefrex
 The Rumour
 Tenpole Tudor
 Tommy Chase
 
 
 I'm looking forward to cherry picking material not on the Stiff boxset, like Tenpole Tudor!

[kosmo vinyl]

Interesting...
 
 http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004313.php
 
 Digital Vinyl: The Opposite of Sony-BMG
 January 11, 2006
 
 There's a new trend underway among indie labels, dubbed "digital vinyl": offering free MP3 downloads for customers who buy albums on vinyl. First Merge Records offered free downloads to those who bought vinyl releases by Clientele and Robert Pollard. Now Saddle Creek Records has announced that they will be doing the same thing for their customers who prefer vinyl, starting with What the Toll Tells, the new record by Two Gallants due in February.
 
 For a variety of reasons, vinyl has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity among music fans (I, for one, can attest that The Decemberists' Picaresque vinyl release sounds better the CD). Unfortunately, music fans who own turntables and iPods find themselves in a bit of a quandry.
 
 Who cares, you say? How many people could that be, you say? Well, smart independent labels aren't asking those questions. Instead, they are trying to make their customers happy, even the vinyl-loving, iPod-equipped ones.
 
 Quite a stark contrast to the likes of EMI and Sony-BMG, whose copy-protected CDs are stopping music fans from getting their CDs into their iPods.
 
 Thank god for independent record labels like Merge and Saddle Creek.

[vansmack]

Sony Music launching label geared to gay recording artists
 -
 Wednesday, January 11, 2006
 
 
 Sony Music has teamed with the founder of a gay cable network to form a record label geared toward developing gay, lesbian and transgender recording artists.
 
 The label, dubbed Music With A Twist, plans to employ talent scouts nationwide to find emerging artists who have generated a buzz in the gay community and have the potential for mass appeal.
 
 Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
 
 The recordings will be released in a marketing partnership with the Sony Music Label Group, which includes Columbia Records Group, Epic Records, Sony Nashville and Sony Urban Music.
 
 It's a home that says to artists, 'We not only are OK with who you are, but we embrace that as part of your identity,'" said Matt Farber, president of Wilderness Media & Entertainment and founder of Logo, the MTV Networks channel targeting gay audiences.
 
 Farber compared the concept of a record label focusing on gay artists with that of urban labels formed to nurture rap or hip-hop acts.
 
 Twist plans to sign artists covering a variety of musical genres and also release compilations with songs by established artists.
 
 Sony Music has also agreed to become a charter sponsor of a syndicated radio show produced by Wilderness Media and dubbed Twist that is launching this weekend in several markets and online.
 
 URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/01/11/financial/f152225S13.DTL

[kosmo vinyl]

Richard Butler - first solo record from Psych Furs singer and an advanced release on emusic
 
 http://www.emusic.com/album/10906/10906381.html
 
 Nice free SXSW New West records sampler
 
 http://www.emusic.com/album/10906/10906335.html