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Is Jamiroquai following Radiohead onto the Internet?

After finishing up with Sony Music's Epic records and that unprecedented eight album contract it looks like Jamiroquai might be the next musicians to follow Radiohead and offer their music via the internet. This would put their new music under their direct control while cutting out the record company and making direct contact with their fan base via their own website. Speaking of Jamiroquai's website they've just re-launched sans references to their former record label also stating their plans to make their content available via widgets for people to post on their websites, blogs, and social networking profiles like facebook and myspace classic, effective viral marketing. The relaunched official Jamiroquai band website is currently offering video content via links to and code from YouTube. I applaud their efforts but the video quality needs to be higher quality. I'm sure the video quality will improve. There's no denying the effectiveness of empowering people to place code back on their blog, website or social networking page. This will result in an even more powerful viral marketing effect that will benefit the band and their fans because interesting, quality content always finds an audience even in the vast play pen that is the World Wide Web. The major record labels must be shitting bricks!

This is the latest news from Jamiroquai.com




I love buying music via the internet. I was an instant, loyal customer of Apple's
iTunes and still love buying downloadable media from iTunes. I love downloading music, audiobooks, podcasts and video both movies and TV shows. So, I certainly understand the appeal for musical talent taking control of their work and reinventing the way music is distributed to, in this case eager fans waiting for your next album.




Have you ever checked out the
iTunes U area of the iTunes music store the content available there is awe inspiring? Podcasts that you can subscribe to which automatically download right into your iTunes library so you can listen to them whenever you want, sync to your iPod and take them with you for your commute or workout, wherever — whenever. Love my iPod, iTunes, iPhone, MacBook Pro and my Mac mini which is actually setup as our network server and is connected to our Sony 50" HDTV - the mac mini has an external firewire hard drive connected to it, which is where my iTunes library is stored and downloaded to. I stream my music from mac mini to a Sharper Image speaker that is connected to an Apple Airport Express which is controlled (streamed) via iTunes to the self-powered speaker.


Here's a YouTube video clip I pulled from the official Jamiroquai band website. I'm sure the video quality will improve as they develop their website and its content, including video.




Looking for their music on CD, check out what's available at Amazon.com maybe they'll show up in Amazon's recently launched mp3 download music store; that would be cool. For all things Jamiroquai check out Amazon.com -- selection & great prices too!













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