A lot of this I already knew - I read the Courtney Love article a long time back - but it’s interesting to see the discussion revived again. Click through to read the whole post.
So, back to our original example of the average musician only earning $23.40 for every $1,000 sold. That money has to [...] Read more »

From the BBC:
Rock band Rage Against the Machine have won the most competitive battle in years for the Christmas number one.
The band’s single, Killing In The Name, sold 500,000 downloads beating X Factor winner Joe McElderry’s The Climb by 50,000 copies to clinch the top spot.
Their success followed a Facebook campaign designed to prevent another [...] Read more »

This is incredible:

New software has enabled researchers to recreate a long forgotten musical instrument called the Lituus.
The 2.4m (8ft) long trumpet-like instrument was played in Ancient Rome but fell out of use some 300 years ago.
and:
But Dr Braden and his supervisor Professor Murray Campbell, were approached by a Swiss-based music conservatoire specialising in early music, [...] Read more »