The Music Press Report

“Seattle journalist Douglas McLennan is a leading national figure in Web journalism. Here he talks about his venture, the imperiled state of newspaper arts coverage, and why Seattle and Portland orchestras are not much noticed across the nation.” (thx BF)

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“The International Jazz Collections holds amazing things, such as photographs, scores, recordings and correspondence from important artists and critics.” (thx BF)

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“8 out of 10 music fans are turning away from professional reviews and going online for music recommendations.”

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“As soon as my writers are in the firing line, then immediately, I’ve got to look after the best interests of my writers, you know. I’m definitely not going to take it down because the band asked me to.”

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“Advertisers and record labels are turning to MP3 websites to reach a much-desired demographic.”

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“We’re hearing something fairly horrifying — that Rolling Stone senior editor Austin Scaggs is starting a ‘Perez Hilton-esque’ music blog for the magazine next month.”

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“Once we re-surfaced on Tuesday after a few weeks on tour in Europe, we were informed that someone at Q Prime (our managers) had made the error of asking a few publications to take down reviews of the rough mixes from the new record that were posted on their sites. Our response was ‘WHY?!!!’”

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“The premise of the new series is that Sam King, an extremely low-level fictional employee of Universal Music, decides to found his own record label in the company mail room.”

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“They invited a blogger to a listening party, without having the sense to have that blogger sign a non-disclosure agreement. What was the expected result?”

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“Seeqpod also launched links to three music blogs showcasing songs from its vast, real-time directory of music including DearRockers, which showcases letters fans have written to their favorite artists, enclosing $5 as karmic payback for any music that they may or may not have been downloaded without permission.”

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