Links for 3.10.08: The Beatles on iTunes, depressed bloggers, aliases…
*Depressed people turn to blogging. I could have guessed this, were I not so apathetic.
*McCartney signs a $400M deal with iTunes to make Beatles songs available.
*AdAge covers the Walkmen (a personal fave) and the art of selling out (indie style).
*Check out the hottest music soc net’s (Imeem’s) guide to SXSW. SXSW. Guides. Effers, every one. [hypebot]
*SlicethePie (covered previously on the listenerd) crowdsources A&R and band management, allowing fans to back and make bucks on up-and-coming bands. They recently received $2M in venture funding. [hypebot]
*REM is releasing its new album through iLike before it hits stores. On a side note, I am somewhat bored with disruption of musical distribution channels.
*I love aliases. Not pen names proper, but the disposable aliases used by the famous to travel quasi-anonymously. Ron Mexico. George Fox (who is apparently a real person and acquaintance of Mr. Spitzer). Further study is here needed.
