The L Magazine's Mike Conklin does an analysis of modern indie music hype (you know, the kind that turns a Black Kids review into a one-word apology followed by an emoticon - "It was disrespectful and childish," Conklin says of that incident, "but it also captured exactly how a
lot of us felt about what had happened to our profession and about how
we were treating young bands.")
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Rdio is a new music subscription service examined by the Times in "Still Trying to Sell Music by the Month." It's a collaboration between the guys from KaZaA, Skype and Joost, which the Times fails to immediately point out. (So supplement that article with this Guardian one.)
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A study by YouthNet shows that online businesses are failing to connect with kids adequately. So Twitter isn't the only one. One idea is to let kids and teens take more control over content. Fourth Story Media is an example of where this works. Penguin's Spinebreakers, says Charlotte McEleny in the New Media Age, is another. (Via @tomewing.)
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Pitchfork debuts Modeselektor's new video, "Art & Cash," in which famous artworks meld into goofy, Modeselektor-curated art installations and scary masks and Biblical references abound.
