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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!
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!
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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So I watch all this fantastic programming...
...on a SONY HDTV. We have the 50" SONY SXRD high
definition rear projection (not the bulky old style
this TV is only 18 inches deep. We purchased it last
fall from Amazon.com and they shipped it to our door
FREE SHIPPING and their price was incredible. The
picture is 1080p, or 1080i the TV switches to
whatever setting it reads from the content when you
change channels. I really love this HDTV obviously I
have a history with SONY TVs, I have owned SONY
Trinitrons over the years. Watching native HD
programming like the VOOM Network channels or FOOD
NETWORK HD the color and detail still stops me in my
tracks and I work in Hollywood so I'm used to the
best quality audio and video. We're really enjoying
having HDTV at home. I dumped our cable company in
favor of DISH NETWORK because they have more HD
channels than any other provider right now that
includes cable tv companies and DirecTV. I love those
VOOM Network channels, more on that in a separate
post. This signal from DISH NETWORK is so clean and
sharp and vibrant compared to the mushy signal from
our local cable TV company. Even the standard
definition (SD) programming is better from DISH
NETWORK and looks amazing on our SONY SXRD HDTV. In a
future post I'll tell you about this really cool SONY
DVD player I have hooked up to our new HDTV...
