I'll pass on Google+. My interest is with Diaspora* Check out their alpha ☛ https://joindiaspora.com/people/1502b944bb7afa39

"More impressive new stats from SouldCloud" Heh. But seriously Bruce, SoundCloud is indeed one of the finest music sites in the world ☛ http://soundcloud.com/sheerzed

What goes around comes around. In the short term you may feel energised and empowered that you have "persuaded" people through strong arm tactics. You don't. Tactics invariably end up being tactics and the resulting stench will suffocate any genuine progress.

PS: And if you missed John's show first time around check out the John Peel Sessions tab here > http://www.patestapes.com/

Many thanks Bruce for posting the whole of this speech. It's good to read not just the "vampire" soundbite that's currently doing the rounds. I met John Peel once. It's true...he listened to absolutely everything that was given to him (including my demo with an old band which ended up on another show's demo spot). I still miss John and his essential and influential show.

Empires expand and then invariably they retract. This looks promising though https://joindiaspora.com/

I just got this Bruce, "Sorry, we are unable to retrieve the document for viewing or you don't have permission to view the document" I reloaded and got the same. Either Disney's Hollywood Records, as Adijayjay has previously stated, "still have some king of power somewhere" or Tunelab (nice site) has restricted the link in some way. Shame. I would certainly like to view a contract like this. "Universe" Yeah right, which one?

Hello Hypeboters and Hypebot. I hope you all have a great weekend.

Twitter is fitter.

From the article: "His unease about the web is not just a matter of legality for him, however, but one of aesthetics. "I personally can't stand digital music," he said." "Aesthetics". Hmmmmm. All CDs and now vinyl are pressed from a digital data source. So, does that mean he can't stand all of his own music since the inception of CDs? For modern recordings, the controversy between analog recording and digital recording is becoming moot. No matter what format the user uses, the recording probably was digital at several stages in its life. I like vinyl. But does Prince like only analogue sourced vinyl? But then again the article also states: ""It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that." When asked about the fate of those unhappy with having no choice, he replied: "There are people who are unhappy with everything. There's a dark side to everything." I used to like Prince.

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Nice article Jack. Apple is not the new Tower though. I worked at Tower in the final months. When I got there it was already corrupt and in receivership with numerous complications driving the business further into the ground: Managers using employee discount codes to sweeten music reps, upper management meetings ending up in the parking lot smoking weed (which sounds great to me but is highly unprofessional), cocaine being sent overnight in vinyl overseas packages to fellow associates, theft, Ticketmaster outlets being used for preferential treatment of music reps. Indeed, the last point was where I resigned due to threats of violence from one manager for not "playing the game". Apple are hardliners and run business (when they are not allowing dumbass code jockeys to screw up product development) with a tenacious, merciless strategy that verges on world domination. Tower were hippies at heart and kept rolling the blunts bless them. It used to be the best record store in the world.

Ah, it's fixed now. They really are good at fixing things.

Indeed Bruce. SoundCloud is currently down at the moment so true to their word they are actually fixing it right now http://soundcloud.com/sheerzed

So, which one is best? Is it Amazon Cloud Player? Spotify? Or will it be Apple? Well, there's only one way to find out....FIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense. - Philip K. Dick, VALIS (1981)