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ExploreMusic’s Free Music Fridays! – 09/10/10

This is our weekly roundup of free, legal downloads that don’t suck.

Adam Has Issues – Episode 17

In this weekly podcast, we discuss some music-based (or at the very least music-adjacent) issues that I have.

So Who REALLY is Listening to Vinyl?

Give CNN credit for this one.  They recently asked their iReporters—their “citizen journalists”—about their music listening habits.  Here are some numbers from the respondents: Overall, 87% of them bought CDs.  [...]

ExploreMusic’s Free Music Fridays! – 09/03/10

This is our weekly roundup of free, legal downloads that don’t suck.

Adam Has Issues – Episode 16

In this weekly ExploreMusic podcast, we discuss some music-based (or at the very least music-adjacent) issues that I have.

Free Music or No Free Music?

If you’re a professional musician, you have to choose between two sides when it comes to distributing your music. The first is traditional.  You record albums and sell them to [...]

4AD Turns 30

Boutique labels have always been the source of some interesting music. One of my favourite has always been 4AD, the experiment offshoot credited by Beggars Banquet in 1980.  If I [...]

Killing Joke is Back

I’ve always been a fan of Killing Joke, even when (especially when?) they were doing nutty things like quitting the UK for Iceland because they feared that Armageddon was imminent [...]

Digital Music Streaming Services: A Comparison

As more people give up on the hassle of possessing music in favour of being to accessing whatever music they want, whenever they want, we’re seeing more and more streaming [...]

OMD Returns

If there was an award for Most Pretentious Band Name of All Time, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark would have to be a finalist, if not the odds-on favourite. But [...]

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