March 2013

Audiences have come to expect free tracks, but they’re not paying the bills By Greg Sandoval on March 4, 2013 01:44 pm  http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/4/4054634/musics-pay-what-you-want-pioneers-sour-on-giving-away-songs Not long ago, many hoped the Internet would emerge as a music fan’s Shangri-la, a utopian world where any track, no matter how obscure, was available for free, record labels were extinct and artists made […]

I was chatting to one of the other shops who was understandably bemoaning the current situation in which bands, labels and online sellers have scant regard for such things as releases dates. In particular the madness where some London shops had stock of the new My Bloody Valentine album dropped off to them, others obviously […]