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I was listening to a recent
TWiTcast
(TWiT = This Week in Tech, an entertaining and on occasion informative
podcast by some former TechTV hosts), where they talked about Apple's
battle with the RIAA and the record labels. It may have finally
dawned on the labels that, thanks in part to the iTMS, bands don't
need them any more, at least not the way they used to. It was the
labels who got music to radio stations and encouraged them to play
it. And without the radio stations, how would we have known what to
like? But that's all changing, thanks to blogs and podcasts and all
the other media enabled by the web. And suddenly the labels aren't so
excited about Apple selling all that music for the same price.
I mention this
to introduce Brad Wolfe, an interesting folksinger and songwriter who,
best I can tell, doesn't have any corporations behind him, big or
small. If he's relying on random music lovers to spread the word,
well, what's more random than this place? Oh, and does anybody else
think he sounds a little like a 21st century
Cat
Stevens?
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