Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Bookmarks: Some stuff to read on the internet

David Byrne meets Thom Yorke and Wired records their conversation about the In Rainbows experiment and what it means for the music industry:

Byrne: What about bands that are just getting started?

Yorke: Well, first and foremost, you don't sign a huge record contract that strips you of all your digital rights, so that when you do sell something on iTunes you get absolutely zero. That would be the first priority. If you're an emerging artist, it must be frightening at the moment. Then again, I don't see a downside at all to big record companies not having access to new artists, because they have no idea what to do with them now anyway.

Byrne: It should be a load off their minds.

Yorke: Exactly.

Byrne: I've been asking myself: Why put together these things — CDs, albums? The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part. Maybe it's just because everybody's thinking musically in the same way for those couple of months.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Could you by any chance post a link to this please?

Anonymous said...

Do you think that the portrait of Byrne and Yorke at the top of the article was supposed to look like Grant Wood's American Gothic?

Ed said...

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_yorke

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