Thom Yorke slightly disingenuous on the future of the music business

"He advises musicians to self-release music rather than yearn for a major label contract, suggesting the loss of the mainstream music industry will be "no great loss to the world.""

Radiohead discography
* Pablo Honey (1993, EMI)
* The Bends (1995, EMI)
* OK Computer (1997, EMI)
* Kid A (2000, EMI)
* Amnesiac (2001, EMI)
* Hail to the Thief (2003, EMI)



i guess it helps if you get yr highly profitable and critically acclaimed major label stint in before you have to start self-releasing, huh.

"Don't be evil" my arse.

Google has decided to start nuking music blogs without any warning (in spite of leaving up whole-album-download blogs, revoking people's AdSense accounts for criticising Scientology, collaborating with Chinese state censorship until someone went after their own servers, and all the rest of it).

It's a suitcase nuke. See what i did there? (from — aaargh! — National Terror Alert)

If we disappear, you'll know where. But if we do, we'll be back. Stay tuned.

mp3: Mano Negra – "Letter to the Censors"

Are these two paragraphs more hilarious or heart-breaking?

Discuss.

X Factor winner [Alexandra Burke] is keen to prove she's not one of the "puppets paid for by Simon Cowell" that Lily Allen referenced in her recent blog about illegal file-sharing.


...The new hairdo is part of a record company reimaging of the singer, described in their own PR material as "Alexandra Burke, version 2.0, 2009 remix".

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