1.  Invest in a song!  You can own rights to “Friends in Low Places” and many other songs.  (DAI).

2.  Nashville Songwriters Assoc. buys the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. (coolfer)

3.  Mediafuturist reminds us that the future of Internet is in the phone.

4. Read Hypebot’s interesting theory on the Rise of the Musician Middle Class.

5.  Sound as furniture:

Sound/Chair begins as a sound that is precisely crafted to form the shape of a chair when visualized as a 3-dimensional object using a volume, time, frequency plot. The chair is an exact replica of the soundwave graph. The result is a product with dual existence as both a sound and chair, and a new approach to designing products. (Listenerd).

6. Who’s popular where? – the worldwide music listening map!    (Listenerd).

7.  Ad-Supported Music sheds some light on the Radiohead debate:

…once the novelty of these “name-your-price” schemes wears off, the percentage of people who pay will fall to near zero.

8.  Million Music Marketing reports that ChartU beta has launched.  This allows bands to upload music which is voted upon by listeners and sorted into “Charts”.

9.  The Good Musician tells us why Music Theory is the best.

10.  Jonathan Savage reminds us that Creativity in schools needs more support.