I intended to get this post up earlier.  Too many people demanded too many things of me.  Tomorrow I may just shave my head and do what I want.

Here’s the news:

Musings on why Starbucks is failing in it’s bid to be a music distributor.  (Coolfer)

 See the Iso booth construction at DM Mobile Studio.

 Protooler shares:

             1.  Reactions to Digidesign’s “New Thinking”

             2.  A quick look at all the audio consoles at the Frankfurt musicfair.

             3.  A video of the SSL Matrix console (I want one!).

             4.  Videodiary of the Frankfurt music fair (part 2 -wrap-up).

JamLoop unveils its first ever Used Musical Instrument Search Engine!  (woohoo!) (harmony central)  I did a search for a Kalimba and most of my results were from ebay.  (booo!)

Faltering Warner Music Group is paying its CEO $1 million dollars for base pay for 5 MORE YEARS!  Warner stock has fallen 68% in the past year (according to Music Row).   Why can’t record label execs do their jobs for less pay?  (Hypebot).

9 mistakes to avoid when making your next CD (Musicthinktank via New Music Strategies).

From Cnet news;  the US House of Representatives is threatening to block financial aid to universities who don’t police P2P music sharing on their networks. (Ad-Supported Music).

Guitar flame echos one of the points I try to make when teaching aspiring music industry students:  The Guitar Is Not The Most Important Track in a recording.   See there, guys–I keep telling you this…

On Seth Godin’s blog:

                          1.  Watch this video before you buy your next ad. (funny)

                          2.  If you’re remarkable, you shouldn’t bother with a resume. (thoughtful)

PTNewbie shares a tutorial on how to use REASON(software) in Pro Tools.

Finally, KilledbytheVideoStar shares a cool review on the up-and-coming band Vampire Weekend.  Hmmm.  Ovidiu, it sounds to me like these guys should have read your post before entering the recording studio.  Also, if anyone can tell me if they filmed this really slowly and then sped it up, please do.  If this is some sort of video plugin, I want to know about it.

Alternate link = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XC2mqcMMGQ

Have a great week!

j