January 8th, 2010 9:26am
LHB’s Shorties (New Blur Documentary, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and More)
The London Evening Standard points out the new Blur documentary, No Distance Left to Run.
Variety profiles Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Metro.co.uk lists 10 bands to watch out for in 2010.
Billy Corgan is starting his own record label.
Spinner reports that Alanis Morissette is working on a book inspired by Jack Kerouac.
The members of Quasi make a mix tape for Magnet.
Pop Tarts Suck Toasted lists 10 New York bands to watch in 2010.
on sale at Amazon MP3: Radiohead's 11-track Kid A album for $1.99.
In the Guardian, Tom Ewing notes the return of the single and what that means for the music industry.
If the BPI's projections are right, singles sales will have topped 150m in 2009 – the most ever, up 400% in five years, and above albums for the first time in decades. Of course, there's no real cross-time comparison you can make: these days, any individual track counts as a "single" and they cost as little as 29p. Still, the singles boom is an inconvenient anomaly in current narratives of "what's happening to music". If you think recorded music is in terminal decline and should simply be a giveaway to support touring, you have to face the fact that millions seem happy to pay for it. But if you believe that recorded music is inherently valuable and its health has been sapped by piracy, you have to come to terms with the fact that the real value your paying audience attaches to a song is the same as a bag of crisps.
The Stylus Decade has listed its top 20 singles of the decade.
The best of the decade (2000-2009) online music lists will be updated Sunday.
The Free Music Archive now offers 15,104 free and legal mp3s to download or stream, including recently added sessions by Franklin Bruno, Portastatic, and many more.
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