Ian Rogers just interviewed Jon Irwin the Rhapsody President. In the interview he seemed to spend a lot of time talking about Rhapsody competitors and how their products were really limited.. and not talking about why Rhapsody actually stands out from these other service.
Here at RouteNote we have been trying to sign with Rhapsody for about 3 years and in that time they have been refusing to add new partners. I can’t really see Rhapsody ever leaving the USA, thus its a bit of a waste of time!
Moog Music ha released the Minitaur, which is in the Moog Taurus Bass Synthesizer family. Minitaur is a compact and powerful analog bass synthesizer.
Features:
» Compact rugged steel chassis
» One knob per function interface
» Two stable oscillators with Sawtooth and Square waveshapes
» Classic Taurus Style Moog ladder filter
» Two Minimoog-style Envelope generators for modulating VCF and VCA
» Midi-syncable LFO with Controls for Rate, VCO LFO Amount, and VCF LFO Amount
» DIN MIDI and MIDI over USB
» Analog Control inputs for pitch, filter, volume and gate
» External audio input
» Headphone output
The Moog Minitaur costs $679 and will be available sometime this Spring.
The Tied are an up and coming band from Kent in the UK. They have been gigging a lot and have even found some success in a battle of the bands contest recently. The Tied has joined RouteNote and their music is available via RouteNote Direct.
Now you can Share/Embed your RouteNote Direct music into any Website, Facebook or Myspace!
The RouteNote Direct embed widget is a basic audio player that anyone can add to any website. Once you click on the embed button a RouteNote Direct release page it will show a widget page in which you can select the style you wish and even edit the colour of the widget.
SoundCloud has just raised around $50 million in funding, valuing the company at $200 million. Its great to see music startups gaining a lot more VC money and SoundCloud is an amazing product.
SoundCloud is aiming to do what YouTube did in video, but for audio, and I think they have already achieved this!
Ever wondered how Turntable.fm looked after their music licensing, well here is how they do it. Turntable.fm co-founder sat down with Techcrunch to talk about the basics of Turntable and how they are just focused on running their product only in the US.
This Week in Music features Richard Jones who is the current manager of the PIXIES and other bands. Richard talks about how he uses direct-to-fan business model with PIXIES and other models.
