Submitted by GuyGG on Wed, 10/10/2007 - 1:59am
- While I may not be a fan of bands like Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails, they are my current heroes in the music realm. Their recent snubbing of the recording conglomerates was absolutely fantastic. This article also touches upon some wonderful statements by Yahoo's music chief to the "big 4." Folks like Yahoo and Amazon have begun paving the way for the future of the music industry. Said industry has been dragged through the mud time and time again in recent years, most deservedly so, and it's moves like this from very high profile performers like Radiohead & NIN that could be the spark to ignite the real fire. Here's hoping that the music industry is set ablaze by the resulting inferno. Doubtlessly a disco inferno. As a film score fan, I'd be more than happy to see some of the specialty labels like Varese Sarabande, Intrada, Film Score Monthly, La-La Land, Prometheus and others continue their move towards limited release efforts. Intrada in particular has gone full guns on that approach, and the results to date have been more than pleasing. Personally, I still prefer to have a physical CD as opposed to a download, if for no other reason than the fine packaging design the score labels put forth, and for the quality improvements. Still, regardless of how things adapt, odds are extraordinarily slim that the end result of the music industry getting bottomed out could possibly result in things getting any more annoying or worse than their current utter mismanagement of the situation. My two cents.
- Speaking of score label La-La Land, here's a first listen preview of their upcoming Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 CD. It's due out 2 weeks from today, on the 23rd. I'm an impatient little imp waiting for this one. Composer Bear McCreary continues to out-due himself for this series.
- Speaking of Galactica, Sci-Fi has begun posting the mini-episodes that lead up to November's Razor tele-movie event online (one new one each Friday). These aren't just scenes from Razor, but extra little snippets they shot to lead into that narrative.
- Now here's an NCM Fathom event that I'll actually drag myself out to see - Star Trek: The Original Series' restored episode The Menagerie.
- Shots of the packaging for Shout Factory's sure-to-be-great new release of My So-Called Life on DVD. As somebody who went through the Another Universe special lunchbox edition debacle back in the day (yes, I actually got one), I'm looking forward to a company that can actually do a great job with the deserving series.
- Speaking of under appreciated shows getting DVD releases, it looks like A&E is going to start releasing the overlooked cable series adaptation of Weird Science on DVD. Neato.
- Fox has released the first trailer for the interesting looking new film Jumper. It's directed by the very talented Doug Liman, so I have high hopes. If nothing else, it'll hopefully provide for another great music score from composer John Powell (though I'm not sure if he's been attached to the project yet - but given his work on both Bourne and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, I'd kinda assume he'll get the gig).
- I haven't yet watched the few episodes since the pilot for Gossip Girl (but will by this weekend). However, the series has earned the distinction of being the first of the new season to pick up a full season order.
- A 75-year-old woman has done what a great many of Comcast's subscribers have dreamed of.
- Check out the video of the truly nifty door
- So, not only is McG rumored to be directing Terminator 4, but Vin Diesel is the rumored star. Hmmm. I guess he'd work pretty good in the role.
- SNL has been on a roll lately. Here's an amusing skit about K-Fed as the #1 parent.
- For those of you lucky enough to have gotten in on Google's stock when it was still a decent deal, you're surely happy that it made its first crossing of the $600 a share barrier.
