domp

My co-founder and I have been working on a new music industry model. If you're around the Boston area and interested in collaborating than send me an email: dom@bandshee.com

I wasn't really a fan of joost. It was very choppy for me. All I wanted to do was see some Stella episodes but it kept completely stopping and starting the next one. A friend of mine said it was much smoother in the earlier releases so I'd assume that it'll run nice at some point. I'll give it another chance in a few months.

http://gigaom.com/2007/04/09/lastfm-launches-subscriptions/

There's another little thing on this. I guess they're now 'pushing' the ad-free radio more since the royalty rates increased.

I think there's going to be a lot more of these sites popping up in the near future. Someone's got to take down that monster.

I love this stuff! What a coincidence with the LEGO name. I can't believe they didn't plan that out. The Six Apart name is interesting too.

There was a good thread about this a couple weeks ago. People recommended a lot of great books.

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=5572

I took it that he meant that the artist wasn't willing to work at his music enough to gain traction and wanted a quick track to success by signing to a big record label. With that being said, I think that the majority of YC submissions aren't looking towards this as an only alternative but one of many routes that could be taken.

(took out the first paragraph I had here. I should have read the full article!)

People that are applying for YC definitely are just seeing this as another possibility and not an end all to their idea. I'm sure that a very small amount of people are going to give up their business if rejected.

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=9161

Oops.

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=8301

This is on the same sort of topic. PG isn't looking to make it a DIGG but to stick to the startup crowd.

I thought so too but I wasn't sure all of the features that were involved with iminlikewithyou.

The reason is because there was no other outlet that had the ability to make them rich and famous overnight. The major labels controlled all of the media outlets until the internet came along.

Nowadays hardly any band would choose a major label over a large independent. There is no benefits anymore. Anyone can reach that critical mass of users without having to use Rolling Stone or MTV.

The people that sign to major labels, for the most part, want to be rich and famous. They aren't trying to make a career out of their music but more a career out of themselves. If not then they would be playing a local club in New Hampshire on the weekends.

So, in my opinion, it's more about the artists being retards. They see that major labels are a fast track to millions of records being sold. They don't want to spend years in clubs to gain traction. They don't want to sell CDs out of their cars. They don't want to save up to produce their own record. They want to take the easy way out and have someone else do the work. It is their own fault for signing a major label contract that takes advantage of them. If they are incapable of seeing better outlets for their music then they deserve to deal with the horrible circumstances of being on a big label.

Sorry this is so long.

Wow thats pretty amazing.

Once they start giving the artist's a bigger cut of the prices then I'll start to care. Right now 35% is going towards Apple, and I'm sure EMI is seeing about 70% of each sale. I couldn't care less if EMI and Apple make more money off of their artists and consumers. The whole DRM thing was bound to fail anyways.

don't worry about it. It's not my website. This is the only video I've seen by them. I think it's cool that they're adding video reviews though.

This is a very positive review of what's going on here. The video is pretty interesting too.

I noticed a lot of people were digging this startup. Center Networks just posted that they have some invites to give out.

Center Networks got some invites for this company so if you want to try it out go to the link and ask for one.

http://www.centernetworks.com/we-have-tapefailure-invites-to-the-private-beta

Yeah sorry about the Jajah/Vonage hoax. It's all in good fun though. No need for smacks.

HA! this is funny cause my co-founder made up a phrase like this but used Nirvana as the band. Create something that makes the industry readjust to you while I guess trying to avoid early death. I dunno he has some whole manifesto.

Nice thoughts though and Ben Folds is great.

I agree. The name doesn't really give you a sense of what the service will be. I hold a strong belief that a company name is crucial. It should be simple and memorable.

Read/WriteWeb wrote an article about this April Fools joke. Check it out:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_end_of_an_era_1april07.php

This article gives a great view of how the record labels were reacting to this innovative approach to music. It also has some helpful tips on starting a startup.

"Entrepreneurs with new ideas will always have a way to reach potential users and customers. They just won't be able to do it here any more."

Are they trying to just become a regular news outlet then? It seems like a bad move on their part to abandon the entrepreneurs and startups that made them what they are today.

Is this an April fools joke?

This Magnify video site looks great. I see a lot of promise with websites being able to create their own video page for their niche market.

If tons of more things are running off of radio waves how bad would that impact our health? Any ideas?

Yeah I can see that. I found that I had no preference in many of the image comparisons so I just clicked one. Did they simply take the average result from the past YComb people or was there more to it? (btw sorry for posting this topic before you!)

I didn't find this to be accurate at all in telling me what kind of a person I am. Anyone else take the quiz?

Our submission focuses on this sort of data, but just not for all websites. We're looking to provide tracking and statistics for our target market.

This is an interesting idea. Although $50,000 is a high price to get an album recorded with a producer. It seems more like a contest then a new music model.