Everyone is entitled to my opinion...
Wow, it’s only been a month or so since my last post but virtually everything has changed! Hang on for a quick Fogblog Update…
ARIA claim that the Australian music industry is in fine shape, although a quick glance at last year’s sales figures tells me that if Michael Jackson hadn’t died and Susan “Nanna from Heaven” Boyle hadn’t released an album we’d be up a certain creek without a paddle.
Apple have released the iPad which, apart from obviously being named by a man, will “revolutionise the publishing industry”. Hey, that’s my line!
Speaking of Apple, apparently they sold over 8 million iPhones last year. Sony Ericsson on the other hand, had an annual loss of US$1.8 billion. Guess what type of phone I use?
Spotify announced they will launch in the US “this year”. Which means we might get a look in next year. Fingers crossed!
Myspace Music launched something new again but it took so long to load on my computer that I lost interest and looked at cats doing funny things in cardboard boxes instead.
Our esteemed music industry magazine and the head of Phil Tripp Industries had a very public spat about something that seemed important to one of them for a week or so but seems to be forgotten now.
I am personally gutted that there will not be another series of Australian Idol this year. What on earth am I going to write about? “Australia’s Got Talent”? I don’t think so…
Due to the extremely traumatising Haitian earthquake, we now have to listen to We Are The World again. Hasn’t everyone suffered enough?
Rupert Murdoch took on Google and now thinks he can charge everyone for his wondrous newspaper “content” online. It’s so good it’s worth it, right? Seriously, their main problem is that display advertising revenue is not making up for the decline in physical newspaper sales, so obviously you need to pay more for the content right? Has anyone ever questioned the actual quality of the advertising at all? Maybe we don’t click on it because it’s a load of crap, Rupert?
Taylor Swift won a Grammy and then broke it. I tell ya, this gen Y bunch have got no respect…
The scariest headline I read over the break was
“ Billy Idol Was Considered For Frontman Duties In Aerosmith...”
Soundslikecafe
The latest issue of soundslikecafe shows just how up to date this CD series has become, if I don’t say so myself...
Kicking off with ARIA Award winner Sarah Blasko's latest single "Over and Over", Volume 28 also includes the latest John Butler Trio single "One Way Road" (#39 on the Hottest 100) plus the new single from Art Vs. Science "Friend In The Field" (their previous single came in at #2 on the Hottest 100!).
Recent US visitors, Eulogies, chime in with their JJJ favourite "Two Can Play", Melbourne singer-songwriter and part time actor (he's currently appearing in Bran Nue Day) Dan Sultan includes his track "Fear of Flying" and new act Mama Kin, who blew away people at the recent Peats Ridge Festival, features with her break-through single "Tore My Heart Out". Even typing the title makes me sing along…
Add to this the latest single from the legendary Dave McCormack, hot new NSW act Royal Chant, new alt/country artist Jason Lowe, the latest rock act from Sydney, The Next with an acoustic ballad, and recent Canadian visitor Jill Barber and you'd have to agree that cafe music has come a long way since Cafe Del Mar!
