Radiohead pioneered the idea of music artists forging their own path, without the need for record labels controlling everything, when they decided to allow their fans to pay what they deemed suitable for the In Rainbows album download last year.
Since then, many bands have taken up the mantle, with Prince and Nine Inch Nails the […]
Well not quite, but your ability to play the download does at least. By the very clever use of Windows DRM (Digital Rights Management) technology, Iron Maiden are seemingly offering something for free, without actually losing any potential sales.
The legendary British rockers haven announced the release of a new best of compilation album, and in […]
Ah The Beatles, they were great weren’t they? Probably the best band in the world ever, and the inspiration for a ton of music which has come and gone since.
So you’d think life would be pretty sweet for the former members of the group, well Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr at least, seeing as […]
The Charlatans have announced that their new album You Cross My Path will be available as a free download from the Xfm.co.uk website for two months prior to getting a full physical release.
This will the long running British band’s tenth studio album, but first to go the way of digital downloads as it’s preferred […]
Radiohead apparently pretended to be Kula Shaker (amongst others) in an effort to stop In Rainbows from leaking online before release.
Bassist Colin Greenwood revealed to NME:
“It felt like a gigantic risk. Like Mission Impossible, almost. We destroyed all CDs after every day of recording. And on the master we’d always write a name which […]
Radiohead, or at least portion of them (Thom and Ed) were interviewed by Steve Lamacq at BBC6 Music on Monday. They spoke about the new album ‘In Rainbows’, and various theories surrounding it.
We also heard Thom talk about his solo effort, and his plans for the future. Most intriguingly, Thom revealed that, like so […]
At the beginning of October, Radiohead rocked the music industry by offering their new album ‘In Rainbows’ as a download only, and allowing the fans to pay what they wanted for it. If that meant 10p then so be it, although most people tended to pay more like £4 for it.
Now they have announced […]
Led Zeppelin have finally decided to join the 21st Century and are to make their full back catalogue available online for the first time.
The band’s albums have been unavailable to download until now, but come November 13th, fans will be able to download the whole lot from services such as iTunes.
Like The Beatles, the legendary […]
On Monday Radiohead announced the details of their new album ‘In Rainbows’ and sent shockwaves through an already anguished record industry by telling fans “You can pay what you want!”
The album will be released for download on October 10th and you, the loyal and fair minded Radiohead fan, will be able to choose how much […]
Blur were one of my favourite Britpop bands of the early 1990s, and my fandom carried on from there until they split up. I was one of the many people who had one leg in both camps during the great Oasis Vs Blur days of old, liking both bands equally, but for different reasons.
With talk […]
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