Readers may have missed two music stories we posted recently elsewhere on Wired:
Radiohead's "pick your own price" release of In Rainbows
might have seemed like a one-size-fits-all template for the strugglingmusic biz, but the band's management never harbored such illusions.Bryce Edge, a manager for the band since 1991, called the experiment, which ended Monday, "a solution for Radiohead,
not for the industry." He was right, of course: The average garage bandcould follow Radiohead's routine to a T, but nobody would care.[continue]
With CD sales tanking, bands and their managers are looking to squeezeextra cash out of the live-music revenue stream by getting a piece ofonline ticket scalpers' profits.
Now Radiohead, The Verve and more than 400 other bands have joinedthe Resale Rights Society, a new British industry group that wants tolevy fees against websites that facilitate so-called secondary sales oftickets. The money would be used to compensate artists, managers,
booking agents and promoters.[continue]
