I have to say that as a fan of A-ha I was apprehensive about someone attempting to cover one of their classic tracks but Color Theory aka Brian Hazard has done a brilliant job so much so I had to stop listening to it in the car because I would play it so loud it would distract me when driving. I suggest a smart a&r person who wants to improve their hit ratio for the year should pick this up.
Monthly Archives: November 2010
My Major Company: the future of record labels ?
Crowdfunding is huge and probably the latest trend in the music business. We have had Slicethepie and Sellaband but My Major Company seem to up the bar.
Describing themselves as a proper fully staffed record companies, they have had one act raise £100,000 in a week and another, Some Velvet Morning have raised a third of this in a week.
Seems to bridge the gap between DIY record labels and a traditional label. You can join the site as an investor but not as an artist which sets it apart from Sellaband for example, where you can join as an artist. I think it is interesting and it does give members of the public a more robust platform making their investment less of a risk. Only time will tell if it will catch on.
Watch their manifesto below:
Samsung Galaxy
It’s not quite an iPad and it’s bigger than an iPhone but is it any good ? It certainly won’t have any of the Apple apps but it looks pretty good to me.