SXSW is still fresh on my mind so pardon me while I rant. In the shifting world of music delivery mechanisms, artists are still looking for a label... but what does "label" really mean these days? Branding is one of the most important issues. The renaissance produced artists without record labels. Not all of them starved or died penniless. Word of mouth filled the concert halls and wherever else they played. This is where I can go on another rant about Ticket Master and their dubious practices to extort money from artists and fans through a monopoly in the ticket sales space. I will hand it to Paul Allen for seeing the future on that one.
Shared computing was the way that most computing started. Anybody remember terminals? With the advent of faster bandwidth and Web 2.0 the circle is complete and sharing remote resources is back with lots of cool bells and whistles. For the artists, live performances still seem like the best revenue stream. The Internet is still the best word of mouth there ever was. Savvy artists can use this. The music industry is still alive and well. It is just morphing into new ways to deliver the artist's crafts... and to generate income. The jury is still out. For now... I'm going to go sync my iPod to iTunes.
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