Archive for the ‘iLike’ Category

>How The Other Half Live

> With so much commercially available music on the internet today it is very easy for ones’ perception to be skewed, particularly among the younger generation. Big name artists such as Metallica, Pink, Coldplay and Robbie Williams greet you at every turn, not only on the sites of major distributors, but also in ads on [...]

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>"Broken Words, Never Meant To Be Spoken…."

>When the new ReverbNation webstore finally arrived I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. They have partnered with Audiolife to make the store possible, but not in the for people were led to believe. Admittedly ReverbNation did not directly state that artists would be able to sell directly from the site but they came [...]

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>"Broken Idols, Broken Heads…."

>Sooner than I expected, iLike and “other partners” are enabling Google to make it easier for music listeners to find, listen to and buy music. Sounds great, eh? It is great for listeners. For the independent artist it’s not quite so great. By having ones’ music on iLike doesn’t necessarily mean that its’ available for [...]

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>"Ain’t No Use Jivin,’ Ain’t No Use Jokin’…."

>No sooner had I written about the analogy made between the internet and a pieces of wire which will inevitably become so intertwined by Stuart Reeman and I that they wold soon end up as one single (ideally) slicl piece of steel than Twitter has gone and made the unbelievably irrational move of disabling FutureTweets [...]

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>"Broken Voices, On Broken Phones…."

> A few months ago Stuart Reeman and I were discussing the speed at which the internet was developing and how it would affect the music game. We were both left wondering how much ‘further’ it can develop. Speaking as one with very limited internet skills the word ‘developing’ when used in relation to the [...]

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>"Pay For Your Ticket And Don’t Complain."

> Until recent times indipendent musicians, unless they have a truckload of cash behind them, have had very limited control over the release of their material. Keen to have their music made available to the widest possible audience they ‘climb aboard’ the major distributors without giving much thought to alternative options. iLike ‘recommends’ to artists [...]

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>Music Is Your Choice.

>Flying in the face of the widespread notion amongst a large majority of musicians I am not doing the world a favour by making my music available to listen to. I am making it available to listen to as, firstly, I enjoy creating it immensely. Secondly I would like to think that someone out there [...]

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