“Exam Time,” or “Excuses, Excuses”

I’m sorry I haven’t written any new material these past 4 days. As a full-time student (and fuller-time multi-tasker) I’ve been frantically finishing up this semester’s last minute work.

I’ve got some great new posts coming up, though. Three upcoming ones deal with:

• A look at the present day feasibility of Gerd Leonhard’s Music Like Water theory
• Another argument for a new anti-piracy policy (or “new tactics for the war on share-erism”)
• A break from the music scene with a forecast for arthouse cinema’s future

There’s also a bunch of other things in the works, but I’ve felt bad leaving you all hanging for four days now!

In return, I give you a couple of links I only wish I had the time to expand upon these past few days:

• Tom Waits’ skin-and-bones site revision  launched with possibly the best press conference footage I’ve ever seen
• According to Notcot, the new NIN album (released online for free on Monday) has individual album art for every song
• Gerd Leonhard on the importance of social media (specifically blogs) in the new music landscape
• A unique new radio design with an analog social media twist
• Bob Lefsetz’s unique and no-holds-barred rant on the music industry’s failures at combatting piracy
• Qtrax has another major label signed on for free and legal P2P music (that makes 3 in total)
• The labels are starting to release “long tail music” (aka hard-to-find, low demand, niche market material) through Amazon

I really do wish I could have written more about any of these… Expect a new post before Friday.