All Entries Tagged With: "OpenMusicMedia"
Exile From Mainstreet – The Rough Trade Experience
The Music Void’s Chris McLellan reports from the semi-regular (and now international) digital music industry gathering known as OpenMusicMedia . The theme of this month’s meeting concerned the future of local, independent record shops. Have web-based music and the evil Box Stores sealed their fate, or do local shops like London’s Rough Trade indicate that [...]
Event Report – ‘Live & Kicking’ At OpenMusicMedia (London)
The Music Void was rewarded for making the journey across an uncharacteristically cold and snowy London last week in order to attend the monthly digital music pow-wow known as “OpenMusicMedia”. Held at the William IV pub near Old St., conveniently close to the Last FM mothership, some of the UK capital’s most interesting people from [...]







Apple’s iTunes Store gave labels much-needed succour after its launch in 2003, slowing down big losses by replicating physical’s per-track purchase paradigm in digital. But now, even after many such services have abandoned copy locks, growth in downloads has largely flatlined, or even worse. The new promised land lays in...


