Blogcritics The critical lens on today's culture & entertainment
Wow! What a first day. Sometimes things just fall into place, and Blogcritics just fell with a cheerfully resounding thud. We had ove 7000 unique visitors in our first 24 hours – tremendous. Thanks for all of your links, attention, comments, opinions, suggestions. Thanks again to Cary Sherman, who stood …
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Special Report in BusinessWeek
Like Iraq and the West Nile virus, music and digital technology is just IN THE AIR right now. Today, BusinessWeek Online has a Special Report on “Digital Music’s Future”: The Labels Start Turning up the Volume The recording industry beat Napster and continues battling free file-sharers. But in slow steps, …
Read More »The Other Side of the Coin
I now find myself on the very useful Pho mailing list, joining the cognoscente in the discussion of issues related to the digital delivery of art, especially music, movies and books. Yowza. I just received a reaction to our interview with RIAA president Cary Sherman from Pho-member Fred W: I …
Read More »We Are In Slate!
What a great debut – we are linked in Slate today – probably because we rock the balls off of King Kong, or something.
Read More »Cracker Forever
David Lowry, the mastermind behind Cracker and the on again/off again Camper Van Beethoven, defies genres and labeling. Founder of Pitch-A-Tent Records, David Lowry masterfully infuses rootsy blues, with country, punk and rock. What do you call that? HOT DAMN!!! Cracker’s first big hit was “Teen Angst,” off their self-titled …
Read More »The Next Step
Fine you? Peanuts. Electronic disruptions? Child’s play. We will throw your ass in jail for file-swapping: Now, however, the entertainment industry is revising its strategy. The new plan appears to extend the target beyond companies with an apparent declaration of legal warfare against individuals who the industry believes are swapping …
Read More »Rob Pegoraro On PressPlay and Rhapsody
The dialogue continues: Last week, PressPlay launched the 2.0 version of its service. It’s still not going to wean the masses from Gnutella, Kazaa or the other file-sharing systems. But it does show that somebody in the record industry is trying to listen to consumers. Given the industry’s habit of …
Read More »Thanks to One and All
What a great way to kick off Blogcritics.com! Huge thanks to Cary Sherman for his time and effort today, and thanks to you for all of your interest and questions. Since we only touched the top of the iceberg, we will continue to collect questions for the next time we …
Read More »Interview With Cary Sherman, President of the RIAA
Good morning all! Welcome to our live interview with RIAA pres Cary Sherman. I will be asking questions sent along by our contributors and readers.
Read More »Announcing Blogcritics.com!
Eric Olsen and a consortium of over 100 of the web's best writers are excited to announce the launch of an innovative new music/book review site, Blogcritics.com. Kicking off the launch, we are honored to welcome RIAA President Cary Sherman to a live chat.
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