As an old-school internet guy *and* a massive music nerd, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the future of the music industry (and similar content businesses) over the past 15 years and I’ve come to the conclusion that most traditional publishing models are totally unsustainable at this point, and are just being kept on life support by copyright, DRM and other types of artificially-imposed scarcity. But the overwhelming sense of community and real passion I’ve found in dealing with all the “You Are Listening To” artists in the last year makes me very optimistic that this violent restructuring of the music “industry” is actually the best thing that could possibly have happened to “music” itself, and so it’s a real honor to be a part of that, to whatever extent I’m able to contribute.
Eric Eberhardt, creator of You are listening to, a website mixing live police radio feed with ambient music, kind of blew our minds with his Q&A. Read the whole thing on our blog. Check out his project page here. (via kickstarter)