
SoundCloud pages have been redesigned with a beautiful new layout and easier song navigation (primarily for desktop view)… give it a try here:

Need quick last minute gift ideas? iTunes Store lets you gift digital music by printing out a personalized gift certificate of your purchase right from your own computer, to give in person, as well as the option to immediately send the gift certificate by email… all Mike Shupp digital albums are available in the iTunes Store here.
Clear thinking here, in this great article posted to hypebot.com by David Macias, of Nashville-based Thirty Tigers… he addresses recent misinformation and assumptions being perpetuated about Spotify royalty payouts and fairness in the evolving digital music landscape. Understanding digital revenue streams is hard enough, without the added confusion of factually incorrect social media posts being widely shared and re-tweeted:
“Saying incendiary things that aren’t based in fact is damaging. The music industry stuck their heads in the sand about the pros and cons related to the digitization of music in the 1990s, conducted their affairs in an atmosphere of fear and lack of understanding, and many bad decisions resulted. The power in the music industry is now shifting from labels to artists and managers. Now that we have more control, let’s be careful not to make similar mistakes because we’re approaching the discussion from that same vantage point of misinformation and fear.”
Read the whole article here:
Making Dollars: Clearing Up Spotify Payment Confusion – hypebot
Silver Spring-bred Tosin Abasi and Animals As Leaders have been re-wiring my brain for a few days now (the… fb.me/1Zt8Ri4Jz
— Mike Shupp (@MikeShupp) November 17, 2012

Neil Finn has launched a comprehensive new website (yes!), “which has been a long time coming” in his words, and which also coincides with the release of his new “Song of the Lonely Mountain,” which plays over the end credits of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (link below). The site looks like a real treat for fans of all things Finn such as myself, with music, video, and beautiful photography from each phase of his career. The EPK videos from The Finn Brothers’ “Everyone Is Here” (one of my favorite albums) are included, as well as a 2010 interview I’d never seen… and pages and pages of Crowded House video and interviews.
Neil Finn | Official website of Neil Finn
Rolling Stone – Neil Finn Reaches Epic Heights on ‘Song of the Lonely Mountain’
“Everyone Is Here” EPK – Finn Brothers

I am loving Intrepid Pursuits’ Timbre live music discovery app for iOS. It’s a really simple and intuitive tool for quickly looking up what shows are happening in your area tonight or in the coming week, and quickly hearing what the artists sound like. Music previews, if available, are pulled from the iTunes store and play immediately. Intrepid Pursuits’ founder Mark Kasdorf says “We want to be a service that lets you listen to a lot of music quickly. We don’t want you to not find any jazz, or any country, because you think you don’t like it…” and The New York Times calls it “radically simple…”
An Android version is expected by year’s end.
Timbre Offers Previews of a Variety of Bands Playing Nearby – NYTimes.com
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— Mike Shupp (@MikeShupp) November 10, 2012
Amazing Interview with Jack Conte Of Pomplamoose & More on Upward Spiral Podcast bit.ly/RHvozY
— hypebot (@hypebot) November 9, 2012