Topic: Pink Floyd

Where Do You Do Your Best Thinking?

Where do you go and what do you do if you want to have great ideas? The answer is perhaps not what you'd expect.READ»

Have a Cigar

A parallel has been drawn between travel distribution and music distribution. Specifically, as to how the music distribution business has undergone changes that have decimated many of the industry leaders. This change seemed bad at first--that is, until Apple stamped it with a brand new spin and gee-whizzed some not terribly creative ways to make a buck at it.READ»

Prince Claims Internet Is Dead, Lady Gaga Disproves It

 Yesterday Lady Gaga hit 11 million followers on her Facebook page (congratulations, number 11,000,001, you get a two-minute shopping cart dash round her wardrobe). Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, as she is known to her mom ...READ»

Pink Floyd to EMI: We Don't Need No Digital Singles

Although it's been clinically proven that sympathy for major record labels is a medical impossibility, some people may be feeling a slight twinge of compassion towards EMI*. Yesterday, OK Go dispensed with their services following a ...READ»

Battersea Born Again: The Pink Floyd Icon Goes Green

Rafael Viñoly's redevelopment plan for London's Battersea Power Station clears a final hurdle.READ»

Big Record Labels Bailing on Spotify for U.S. Launch? No, Tweets Spotify [UPDATED]

Can Europe’s popular music service survive in the U.S. without the world's largest labels?READ»

Hank Risan on BlueBeat's $20 Million Gamble...on 25-Cent Beatles Tracks?

Bluebeat founder Hank Risan says he sank $20 million into an effort to revolutionize digital music delivery. But he flushed it all the day he offered Beatles tracks for a quarter a pop, a judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge John ...READ»

BlueBeat's Hank Risan: That's Not the Beatles, It's a "Virtual Cover Band"

If you thought that was AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles you streamed for free or downloaded this week for $.25 from BlueBeat.com, it's an understandable error. The music sounded identical to songs by those artists. ...READ»

Beatles Label EMI Slaps Former Huffington Post Blogger, BlueBeat Owner With Federal Lawsuit

Get your Beatles downloads from BlueBeat.com while they're hot--as in stolen, according to a federal copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the site and its owner by EMI records, which distributes the Beatles music, in Los ...READ»

BlueBeat Defiantly Selling Beatles, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin Right Now for Cheap

Download site BlueBeat seems to have looked squarely in the eye of litigious record label legal eagles and various judges who've sided with them--then figuratively dropped trou and shot 'em a moon.READ»

MP3s Drive the Music Biz Into Multiple Personality Spin

Ah, the music biz--source of fun for the masses, and craziness for businesspeople. We all know about the first part of that, but the second bit's been highlighted by some odd news this week, hinging on MP3s. The American Society of ...READ»

Is Wikipedia in Decline? Scientists Search for Answers in Wikipedia's Numbers

Wikipedia's ascendancy to the top of a large pool of online reference sites has come to an end, new research shows. But perhaps even more alarming to eleventh-hour term paper writers and lazy journalists everywhere, the user generated ...READ»

Riff on the Future of Music

A couple of nights ago I had the prvilege to hear Tom Milsom, a 20-year-old musician play music for friends in my living room. A mutual friend had "discovered" him on YouTube. And he was wonderful.I wrote a blog post about that ...READ»

The Gross Inconvenience of the New iPod Shuffle

If you're an iPhone user, you just looked at Apple's [AAPL] new 4GB iPod Shuffle and groaned. Announced this morning, the little stainless steel slab is beautifully minimalist, and about the size of a piece of Trident. But its ...READ»

A Touchscreen Interface for 21st Century Musicians

The music of Bjork, Daft Punk, and Ryuichi Sakamoto don't have much in common, on the surface. But they all run their live shows through Lemur, a multi-touch interface for creating real-time light shows and music mixes. The latest ...READ»

MTV Finally Returns to the Music Video Business

MTV launches a new online property focused on ... music videos! It's been a long time coming, but now users can look through more than 27,000 videos from MTV's archive, including live performances and vintage stock.READ»

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Apple's "Let's Rock" Event Run-Down

Yesterday in San Fransisco, Apple [NASDAQ:AAPL] announced a slew of music-related device and software updates for the iPod and Macintosh. Some are big and some are small, but as a collective whole, the updates are an effective ...READ»

Fast Talk: Sounds of the Future

Digital music is a many-splendored thing--and it's more than just that white rectangle. Everyone from major labels to individual artists is experimenting. What's next--and why is Madonna sure to be a part of it?READ»

iPod Roadie

Shifting into (MP)3rd gear.READ»

Dr. Brilliant Vs. the Devil of Ambition

If baby boomers had their own Faust, he'd be Larry Brilliant, a man who's found himself at the center of almost every defining moment of his generation. His biggest battle: taming the devil of ambition.READ»

Unleash Your Ideavirus - Part Two

Here's a big idea: Ideas are driving the economy. Here's a bigger idea: Ideas that spread fastest win.READ»

The Hitchhikers Guide to the New Economy

Don't panic. You're about to go on a ride through the new economy in the company of Douglas Adams, the ultimate hitchhiker, as he translates his fanatic flair for intergalactic fun and games into what he hopes will become the next big multimedia company.READ»

Work/Life: Finally, A Use For The Internet

We are living in the age of everyone getting their fifteen minutes, and videos of a drunk guy trying on a variety of hats or shots of people’s household pets dozing off are probably getting more viewers than Ugly Betty ever will. ...READ»

The Dark Side of Social Media

Danah Boyd is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. Lisa Poulson serves as president of Kirtland Enterprise Group Inc. Wendy Seltzer works as an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier ...READ»