burn it: state of the biz

5.2.08

state of the biz

In the Guardian today a pretty thorough article on the state of the music business.

It does not cease to amaze me how rapacious the industry has been in the past, not sure if that justifies theft but I do feel better that the artists seem to be gaining more control over their business affairs as the major labels struggle.

1 comment:

OP-lo said...: Read this on the way home yesterday. Who the heck are the Bros anyway? I think it's justice served for the raping of the artists and the consumer in years past. Personally, I bought very few actual CDs in 2007 (or the last several years for that matter)- less than 20 - and if I did, I paid no more than $7 a piece through some buy 1 get 4 free deal at BMG. This is good in teh eand because they will have to search harder for more artists - making a little from a lot instead of a lot from a few big names.; Feb 6, 2008, 7:38:00 AM

BIXI Best of 2009, February 6, 2010

1 Phoenix -- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2 St Vincent -- Actor
3 The XX -- XX
4 Atlas Sound -- Logos
5 Neko Case -- Middle Cyclone
6 Grizzly Bear -- Veckatimest
7 Animal Collective -- Merriweather Post Pavilion
8 Yo La Tengo -- Popular Songs
9 Passion Pit -- Manners
10 Cymbals Eat Guitars -- Why There Are Mountains
11 The Flaming Lips -- Embryonic
12 Converge -- Axe to Fall
13 Wilco -- Wilco
14 Wild Beasts -- Two Dancers
15 Japandroids -- Post-Nothing
16 Baroness -- Blue Record
17 Dirty Projectors -- Bitte Orca
18 Real Estate -- Real Estate
19 Memory Tapes -- Seek Magic
20 DOOM -- Born Like This

Burn-It X Best of 2008 - Feb 7, 2009

1 Deerhunter... Microcastle/Weird Era
2 Fleet Foxes... Fleet Foxes
3 Vampire Weekend... Vampire Weekend
4 Cut Copy... In Ghost Colours
5 M83... Saturdays=Youth
6 Portishead... Third
7 Frightened Rabbit... The Midnight Organ Flight
8 TV on the Radio... Dear Science,
9 effed Up... The Chemistry of Common Life
10 Why?... Alopecia
11 Sigur Ros... Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
12 Kanye West... 808's & Heartbreak
13 The Walkmen... You and Me
14 Deerhoof... Offend Maggie
15 Los Campesinos... Hold On Now
16 Culture Reject... Culture Reject
17 Dodos... Visiter18 Bug... London Zoo
18 Lil Wayne... Tha Carter III
18 Fleet Foxes... Sun Giant EP
18 Beach House... Devotion

Burn-It IX Best of 2007

1 Deerhunter - Cryptograms / Florescent Grey EP
2 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3 Panda Bear - Person Pitch
4 Radiohead In - Rainbows
5 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
6 St. Vincent - Marry Me
7 Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
8 The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters
9 Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
10 Pelican - City of Echoes
11 Kanye West - Graduation
12 Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
13 Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
14 Field, The - From Here We Go Sublime
15 Battles - Mirrored
16 The National - Boxer
17 Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
18 Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
19 Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
20 Feist - The Reminder

Burn-It VIII Best of 2006 - Feb 3, 2007

1. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
2. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
3. Lilly Allen - Alright, Still
4. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
5. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
6. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
7. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
8. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
9. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
10. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
11. Cat Power - The Greatest
12. The Thermals - The Body The Blood The Machine
13. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
14. M. Ward - Post-War
15. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
16. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
17. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
18. Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
19. Oxford Collapse - Remember the Night Parties
20. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mistics

Burn-It VII Best of 2005 - Feb 4, 2006

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
3. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
4. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
5. The Decemberists - Picaresque
6. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
7. Deerhoof - The Runners Four
8. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
9. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
10. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
11. Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die
12. The Clientelle - Strange Geometry
13. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene [Windsurfing Nation]
14. Kanye West - Late Registration
15. Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
16. Wilderness - Wilderness
17. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
18. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
19. Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
20. M. Ward - Transistor Radio

Burn-It VI Best of 2004

1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
3. The Futureheads - The Futureheads
4. Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
5. The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
6. The Walkmen - Bows & Arrows
7. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
8. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
9. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
10. Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
11. A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
12. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
13. Annie - Anniemal
14. Kanye West - The College Dropout
15. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
16. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
17. Les Savy Fav - Inches
18. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
19. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
20. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans

Burn-It V Best of 2003

1. New Pornographers - Electric Version
2. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
3. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
4. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
5. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
6. Cat Power - You Are free
7. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
8. The Strokes - Room on Fire
9. Manitoba - Up In Flames
10. Grandaddy - Sumday
11. Decemberists - Her Majesty the Decemeberists
12. The Wrens - The Meadowlands
13. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State
14. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Pig Lib
15. Postal Service - Give Up
16. The Rapture - Echoes
17. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
18. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
19. Pinback - Offcell EP
20. Deerhoof - Apple O'

Burn-It IV Best of 2002

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
3. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
4. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
5. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
6. Beck - Sea Change
7. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
8. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
9. The Notwist - Neon Golden
10. Sigur Ros - ( )
11. Enon - High Society
12. Yume Bitsu - The Golden Vessyl of Sound
13. Neko Case - Blacklisted
14. Isis - Oceanic
15. Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
16. Destroyer - This Night
17. Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
18. Clinic - Walking with Thee
19. Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown
20. John Vanderslice - The Life and Death of an American Four Tracker

Burn-It I 2000 & 2001 Comp - Mar 5, 2001

1. Les Savy Fav - I.C. Timer; Emore: Rome Upside Down
2. Radiohead - Morning Bell; Kid A
3. Stephen Malkmus - Pink India; Stephen Malkmus
4. Yo La Tengo - Let's Save Tony Orlando's House; And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
5. Supergrass - Your Love; Supergrass
6. J Mascis & The Fog - Ammaring; More Light
7. Sleater-Kinney - Youth Decay; All Hands On the Bad One
8. PJ Harvey - A Place Called Home; Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
9. Super Furry Animals - Y Gwyneb Lau; Mwng
10. Q & Not U - A Line In the Sand; No Kill No Beep Beep
11. XTC - Standing In for Joe; Wasp Star (Apple Venus, Pt.2)
12. Elliott Smith - Somebody That I Used to Know; Figure 8
13. Badly Drawn Boy - Everybody's Talking; The Hour of Bewilderbeast
14. Spoon - Me and the Bean; Girls Can Tell
15. Chris Thomas - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues; O Brother, Where Art Thou
16. Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything; The Moon & Antartica
17. Unwound - Demons Sing Love Songs; Leaves Turn Inside You
18. Tortoise - Six Pack; Standards
19. Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake; The SoftwareSlump