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Hopefully I wasn’t talking too much about the potential future of ad supported music services this week. These are tricky time for anyone working in music, may it be music owners or services that want to bring music to the fans.

You can listen to my latest show here.

1. Jimi Hendrix ‘All Along The Watchtower’
2. Archive ‘Bullets’
3. Fredo Viola ‘The Turn (A Pagan Lament)
4. The Decemberists ‘The Rake’s Song’
5. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy ‘Afraid Ain’t Me’
6. Suicide ‘Ghost Rider’
7. Architecture In Helsinki ‘Hold Music’ (Max Tundra Mix)
8. Cazals ‘Somebody, Somewhere (Moulinex Remix)
9. MSTRKRFT ‘Fist Of God’
10. Passion Pit ‘I’ve Got Your Number’
11. The Wee Rogue ‘Into The Mist’

If you can get your hand on the latest copy of Billboard (10th January it says on the cover) make sure you read the Opinion piece on page 4. In addition to giving a good pitch, Lala.com‘s Bill Nguyen wrote a short and well formulated article on listening to music online and business behind it. My favourite quote:

“The web is home to more new music each year than was released in many previous decades. Critics say the music is mostly junk – but the same could have been said for the Web before Google made the knowledge there accessible.”

I couldn’t agree more.

Back from Newcastle now, I was on a panel with Thomas Dolby, Scott Cohen (The Orchard) and John Webster (MMF) discussing “digital music” last night. The topic was broad and so was the 2 hour discussion. I prefer doing it in an hour and then having conversation afterwards with people individually but this worked pretty well as Russ was doing a good job guiding the conversation. I mostly enjoyed some insight from Thomas as he could talk about the changing landscape of the music industry over the last 30ish years from an artist point of view. 

It’s nice to have people on a panel that are ‘doing things’ as oppose to ‘talk about them’. We were discussing this when we talked about who we should invite for our new OpenMusicMedia meet. I felt it worked really well to have Anthony there as he could talk about his product as well as music blogs in general. It’s good to talk about ideas but even better to see them in a practical context. We are now thinking about the next topic, two things we are interested in is the ‘music feels like free’ discussion as well as data portability. More on that soon on the OpenMusicMedia blog. We’re also putting together an old school style mailing list, not everyone is good with rss and twitter it seems…

Oh and by the way thanks to everyone who made is down last week and contributed to a great night!