links for 2008-05-02

• First sight: Little Lost David | Folk and acoustic | guardian.co.uk Music
  "... he's been gifted with a voice that can soar to ethereal heights as effortlessly as it plumbs red-raw depths, and he does indeed 'lose' himself in the sound."
  (tags: music guardian littlelostdavid)
• London Connections: A complete map of the East London Line route through Shoreditch
  I've meant to go and look at all the derelict railway viaducts in Hoxton/Dalston/Shoreditch for years. Finally did it last week, in a superficial kind of way. Very confusing, but this brilliant diagram helped clear things up retrospectively.
  (tags: london shoreditch railway derelict viaduct history urban eastlondonline)
• Transpontine: Venue Pre-history
  Transpontine is a self-proclaimed "South East London blogzine". This post covers the history of The Venue. It was called the Harp Club when I first lived in New Cross; I have fond memories of A Million Rubber Bands and the Flim Flam Club.
  (tags: london southeastlondon newcross transpontine thevenue)
• Little Lost David is finding his way - The Star
  "One thing I learned from my previous band is if you are chasing something people don't generally take notice of you. Record companies are not interested. It's like with girls - there's a thrill in the chase but it's nice if they come to you."
  (tags: music littlelostdavid aspirations)
• demonbaby: When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.
  One of three music-related links I've had hanging around on my desktop for months, intending to write about it. Not likely to happen (it's from last October!), so it's time to del.icio.us it. A lucid analysis of the state of the record industry.
  (tags: music industry capitalism community copyright download internet torrent bittorrent oink p2p)
• throwingmusic: CASH Music is Now
  The second of those three links: Kristin Hersh on her CASH Music venture and the concept of a read-write musical culture. "Demand substance. Substance in music, in education, in art, in health, in film, in information, in everything."
  (tags: music download mp3 cashmusic readwrite kristinhersh)
• Jound Message Board :: View topic - New songs
  The third of those three links: Will Sheff of the band Okkervil River, on the band's attitude to file-sharing. It's a fascinatingly ambivalent exploration of whether file-sharing is beneficial or detrimental to bands.
  (tags: music copyright filesharing internet willsheff okkervilriver)
• Basement.org: Enough With The Lists
  I found the previous link via this post, which is interesting on value and scarcity: "... we just keep accumulating stuff with the desired intention to consume it later. The problem is we can't possibly consume at the pace we're producing."
  (tags: consumerism data information internet value scarcity)

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