Remember when you had to buy an entire album? Then came iTunes and you could use those albums like a buffet at Souplantation. Now Apple is working with the four remaining major labels to develop ways to entice people to buy entire albums. Problem with this is, Apple requires all songs from an album be available for individual purchase. A simple change in policy would seem to fix that, no? [RS]
A few weeks back, and with much fanfare, bitchy music blog Buddyhead returned to the LA blogosphere after recovering form financial and social ruin. Already they’re fighting with Marilyn Manson over founder Travis Keller‘s comments to the LA Weekly about a party session with Manson. It’s not the most material of beefs, but this is what happens after the parties are over, bros [DS].
Daft Punk continues to find ways to avoid making a new album. They’ve been tapped to score Tron: Legacy, the sequel to the 1980s geeky geek cult classic. Someone took some pirate video at Comic-Con this weekend and you can not only hear the French robots’ music, but see a super cool light bike by artist Daniel Simon. Go get your geek on [ITM].
Patrick Wolf claims that he was hugged by Whoopi Goldberg and that she inspired him to book the Palladium in London. It’s very unclear as to how these things connect or to why Whoopi would spontaneously hug the singer [NME].
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