21. January, 2003 - the music biz

Major labels bring back Net music giveaway in hopes of convincing people to download free music legitimately. Well, not quite free. And only in Europe. But Peter Gabriel's involved.
Working Musicians (ISBN:0061076066) is a new book by rock critic Bruce Pollock. It includes interviews and stories from many musicians including Brenda Kahn - an old friend of Jim's and webmaster of womanrock.com. Womanrock has some of the interviews [Jim]
No Harmony Yet in Content Land. Last week, there was a lot of noise about various groups agreeing to oppose digital copy-protection mandates from Congress. I didn't say much about it, mostly because it held virtually no interest for me. There's no voice of the customer there, so I still see it as a bunch of industry groups masturbating together. [scripting]
Your Logo Here / With CaféPress, now anyone can have personalized swag. Sometime in 2003 they'll start offering print-on-demand books, CDs and DVDs. Maybe this'll be the excuse I need to get Mead Made Easy back into print. All I'd need to get it into Amazon.com at that point would be an ISBN, which CaféPress can provide. I can think of a few musicians that might benefit from having CaféPress making their CDs, too. [boing boing]
And speaking of music, The Auto Body Experience is playing in St. Cloud at the Tavern on Germain this coming Saturday (the 25th). Road trip? Probably not, but you never know.