From the blurb department: A New York Times article that describes how a music blog broke an indie band (registration required). For a non-registration summary, you can go here.
Is this a sign of the death of the old economy? Netizens sidling up, Oliver Twist-wise, and humbly asking, "Please sir, may I undermine your business model?"
No. It's simply a matter of an old economy industry co-opting the toys of the new one. An interesting story, then, but one that is, technologically speaking, a bit of a wash.
The blog its bad self? Here.
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The Times article mentions some other music blogs -- with names like Fluxblog, Stereogum, and
Largehearted Boy, have some influence, "but even those still have a long way to go to fundamentally alter the landscape of the music industry. Many labels view blogs as little more than potential providers of free publicity; even a blog like Music for Robots, which gets about 8,000 unique visitors a day, is little more than a blip on the radar of major labels.
But blogs are acting as incubators for new talent like the Hysterics. It's doubtful that MTV would have discovered the band as quickly otherwise."
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