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"The music industry is very healthy. The record industry is the problem. The notion that the only way to monetize artist creation is 10 songs that come out every 18 months, in a package called an album — the classic record model — isn’t what it used to be. [Musicians can profit from] reality shows. Fashion. Maybe I release five or six tracks and the rest comes in a paid subscription, that is basically a fan club…. Most labels are going to become management companies [making money from booking concerts, etc. rather than selling CDs.] There will be a lot of pain." - Microsoft's J Allard on the state of the music industry right now in the New York Times

As long as your willing to cough up some modest and not so forthright personal information, DFA Records is giving you the chance to download two songs and one video, for free through 7Digital . The songs are radio session tracks from Prinzhorn Dance School and Shocking Pinks and a video of LCD Soundsystem playing "Us Vs Them" live in Manchester. The download option expires on November 30th.

It always a sad day when a fellow lab of the experimental musical variety closes, and with that introduction, it should be said that Gold Standard Labs has decided to shut its doors. On Monday, they made the following announcement from the GSL web site, "In recent years, we've experienced the onset of factors that have seriously limited our ability to maintain what we feel is the essence of the label; the experimental attitude and artistic freewheeling of times past are simply no longer sustainable. Rather than compromise our goals and beliefs, or allow our course to be charted by financial constraint and an industry in flux, we've decided the time has come for GSL to cease releasing new music, and to close this chapter of our story." The current home of bands like Dmonstrations, The Mars Volta, Sabertooth Tiger, as well as being the past home to Arab On Radar, GoGoGo Airheart, XBXRX, and a long list of bands. The announcemen...

Trent Reznor recently announced he was taking Nine Inch Nails down the path of freedom by being label free , and he quickly followed with the news of a new remix album that will feature the likes of saul williams, ladytron, bill laswell, the faint, and more on a release called Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D. He'll release for download through Amazon, Vinyl, and a CD / DVD package, as well as offering pre-formatted tracks for GarageBand, Ableton Live and Wave files for people to remix on their own. Hold on to your hats, people, he's just getting going with this not being tied to a label thing . Here's what Trent Reznor said about it on the Nine Inch Nails web site"I can make this easy for you: if you just want to hear the tracks as cheaply as possible, get it digitally. The highest fidelity will likely be Amazon (through legal means). If you want something that's aesthetically cool and will enhance any collection, get the vinyl. Trust me, it looks great. The extra tracks are fa...

Now in the midst of the big PR tour for upcoming album release of Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind , Vashti Bunyan made a recent appearance on BBC's Radio 6 , recording 3 acoustic tracks for the Freak Zone show. You can check out an archived version at the BBC web site.

Just in from the All Tomorrow's Parties people -- Pitchfork will curate the 2008 Spring version of All Tomorrow's Parties in the Spring of next year. They'll bill it as ATP vs. Pitchfork, meaning that both camps will split up the picking of the bands. The festival happens May 9-11 at Camber Sands Holiday Park (in the U.K.), and has announced some initial bands, with more to come: Pitchfork's choices so far: Of Montreal Man Man Los Campesinos! Caribou Glass Candy Dirty Projectors ATP's choices so far: Sebadoh Ween Pissed Jeans Fuck Buttons Apse

Dark and scary and of this earth. Ladies and gentlemen, with Clipd Beaks , I give you the first band offering worthy of the Fall season. The music is actually more experimental than scary, and scary might be a bit of a strong word, but the band uses subconscious themes to a devastating effect, and the power of that sound might freak you out. Real drums, analogue synth, lots of creativity and some lo-fi samples of found sounds get thrown together into a heady vortex of sound and cacophony and chaos. Occasionally they bring the music back into to order, just so they can make it all crazy again, you know? The back and forth is nice. They recently signed to LovePump United to release their upcoming album Hoarse Lords on November 6th. MP3 : Clipd Beaks Clipd Beaks: Hoarse Lords Track List: Release Date: November 6th, 2007 01 Melter 02 Wrathscapes 03 Manipulator 04 High on Charms 05 Hoarse Lords 06 We Will Bomb You (We Will) 07 Woo Melodies 08 Black Glass 09 Let It Win