From Toothpastefordinner, found via TechCrunch.

I’ve been following this site for a few months now.  It’s a hip little mp3 aggregator that links to blogs that post music tracks and lets you search them by artist, or title, or whatever.
It’s been a great way for me quickly listen to new artists, find classic tracks, or get a taste of what’s hip and happening in the music world.
A month or so ago they underwent a major redesign, adding a ton of graphics and new functionality.  In many ways it wasn’t really as good as it …

I covered this last week here, but the full interview is up now and it’s too good to miss.
I spent a little time looking for quotes to pull out, but the whole thing is really worth reading, and really gives a lot of insight into the mystery of just how the music industry managed to paint themselves into a corner.

Okay, this is unusual but cool.
It’s entire community site dedicated to remixing Nine Inch Nails songs.
And it’s official and legal as well.

Living through the Napster debacle it was hard to imagine that the music industry could have been any more clueless than they appeared to be.  But it turned out they were, and they still are:
When Morris is asked why the music business didn’t work harder, in the early days of file-sharing, to build its own (legal) online presence, there’s this exchange:
“There’s no one in the record industry that’s a technologist,” Morris explains. “That’s a misconception writers make all the time, that the record industry missed this. They didn’t. They just …