It’s Independent Film Week and the IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Conference, so I thought I’d bring up Radiohead before some panelist does. A couple of years ago I remember sitting at a panel (not at the IFP, actually) at which a young filmmaker was asking how to jumpstart his own business model. A guy onstage in a suit who probably billed at $600 an hour looked at him and said, “The answer is Radiohead,” referring to the band’s strategy of releasing their In Rainbows digitally over the internet for whatever price fans were willing to pay. (The band subsequently released a […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 19, 2010Some Friday night listening pleasure from the Atoms for Peace concert (I sadly missed).
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 16, 2010The guys who run the new music/MP3 blog Good Weather for Air Strikes have launched a new blog devoted solely to music video downloads called Videoteque. Named in homage to Radiohead, the site features no streaming video, just downloads, many in iPod-ready MP4 format. First up, yes, a bunch of Radiohead clips by such directors as Michel Gondry and Jamie Thraves.
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 26, 2006