Radiohead and Google have partnered on a new project that is a very cool example of using cutting-edge video technology, social media and an open source approach to promoting music.
Radiohead’s latest video, for House of Cards, was created without cameras or lights. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of [...]

Radiohead,¬†the poster-boy for¬†Internet music promotion,¬†is promoting its album, In Rainbows, with an hour-long canned Internet video that will premiere New Year’s Eve on Al Gore’s Current TV.
The pre-recorded performance will include all of the tracks from In Rainbows plus some “other bits”, according to the band. The event will air on Current TV and Current.com [...]

comScore today released a study of online sales of In Rainbows, the new record album from the band Radiohead. The album’s release has challenged the music industry’s traditional distribution and sales model by allowing consumers to determine the price they are willing to pay.
Unfortunately for the future of musicians everywhere, nearly 2/3rds of Radioheads fans [...]

Nine Inch Nails announced at its site that it is going forward without a major-label contract:
I’ve waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I [...]