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Google-Radiohead partnership: better than Google-Yahoo
Radiohead created a music video for the song "House of Cards" without using cameras. Instead, the band used technologies called "Geometric Informatics" and "Velodyne LIDAR" to scan their heads with lasers while singing the song. In keeping with the video's futuristic, technology-of-tomorrow creation, the band today released the video not over MTV, but through Google. The result is embedded below. More »
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Comment by deathbychichi: LIDAR is functioning here as a camera. And, god, they didn't even clean up the data. All the... more » | Other threads
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digital music
Downsizing EMI spends $50 million a year to destroy unsold CDs
Record label EMI will lay off 2,000 and shift its focus toward digital music, private equity investor and company topper Guy Hands told the Financial Times. Hands said the music industry operates on fallacies with origins in "the phenomenon of the 1990s and the CD" and as a result, companies like EMI are hemorrhaging cash. EMI, for instance, spends $50 million a year destroying unsold CDs. Guess whose model Hands said the industry should follow to turn itself around? More »
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Comment by OaklandTechie: That's gotta hurt to have to admit Radiohead has a better grip on the industry than they do. The In Rainbows... more » | Other threads
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Radiohead on ComScore numbers: Bollocks!
ComScore, the online traffic tracker, told us that 62 percent of the 1.2 million fans who downloaded Radiohead's latest album "In Rainbows" weren't willing to pay for it. Now the band's management wants to kibosh those reports. More »
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Comment by mblevin: Not to mention that if you were using a variety of non-standard browsers, the price inputs wouldn't take single zeroes... more » | Other threads
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Radiohead update: Brits morally superior by 8 percent
Mathematical types might object, but to me the evidence is clear. British music fans are 8 percent better than Americans and 10 percent better than the rest of the world. More »
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Comment by imetis: Radiohead made a big mistake setting up the site to only show the price in Pounds. I went there intending... more » | Other threads
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digital music
Radiohead verdict in: You people are cheap
Last we heard about Radiohead's experiment to let people pay what they want for its latest album, "In Rainbows," we were ready to bury record labels. We heard the average price paid for "In Rainbows" fell between $5 and $8 and that a low estimate of Radiohead's take in two days was $6 million. But now ComScore's come out with official numbers, and, um, whoops. More »
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Comment by dickrunning: This excludes the boxset in the analysis. I worked on the transaction processing on their website and will tell you... more » | Other threads
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Radiohead estimates doom record labels
Two weeks after Radiohead asked fans to pay only what they like before downloading their new album "In Rainbows," financial numbers are beginning to surface. So are the bloated carcasses of record labels. Why? Because though Radiohead will release the album on CD and with a label early next year, the band has—by all accounts—already cleaned up without having to share a pound. More »
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Comment by Nicholas Carlson: I think maybe the answer is Pandora's plan to create a musicians' middle class. more » | Other threads
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Madonna dumps record companies, signs with concert promoter
More and more artists are striking innovative deals to sell their music — and leaving the traditional record industry contract behind. The Wall Street Journal reports that once Madonna's contract with Warner Music is up, she will link up with concert-promoter Live Nation. While not as revolutionary as Radiohead's pay-what-you-want plan, or Prince's free-music-with-newspaper deal, Live Nation is a concert production company, not a record label. Madonna's deal will bring album production and distribution, concerts, merchandise and publicity under one company. More »
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Comment by dalejo: Just another sign that Madonna is a copy cat and not an innovator. Does she even matter any more? more » | Other threads
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Radiohead's experiment in distributing In Rainbows, allowing consumers to download the album for free, highlights a growing problem in the music business: Kids these days, thanks to BitTorrent, don't think they should pay for music. As more independent acts follow Radiohead's lead, opting to make their cash touring, the record industry will struggle to find a new business model. Surprisingly, suing its customers actually seems to be working out . [Telegraph] -
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Radiohead spits in the face of both Apple and Amazon.com
All the record-label kevetching that the Internet is killing their livelihood may actually be true. But it's not college kids sharing files in broadband-equipped dorms that they need to worry about. Radiohead is releasing its new album sans label. Novel, but the interesting bit is that the band is giving a choice to consumers: Pay $82 for a super-fancy, boxed edition of In Rainbows, or download the album — for whatever you think it's worth. This follows a similar campaign by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails who says once his band's label obligations are completed, it will release digital albums for about $4. Of course it's not just the music industry that should be concerned. More »
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