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Crowdsourced music

I recently came across two very interesting new web projects - Sellaband and Amie Street - with different but related approaches to marketing unsigned bands online. Sellaband takes an micro-angel investing route; Amie Street acts like a kind of supply-and-demand driven stock market for tracks themselves. Both are examples of crowdsourcing, and fascinating, so I wrote about them for the Times. Unfortunately - due to space restrictions - my interview with Amie Street's Elliott Breece didn't make it into the printed article, but - if I get time, and with Elliott's permission - I'll try to post a transcription here in the next few days.

Common Good Books

Garrison Keillor's opened a bookshop in his home City of St Paul, Minnesota.

John Abercrombie in full, on Jazz on 3

If you caught the John Abercrombie Trio broadcast, from the summer's Jazz on 3 Manchester Jazz Festival broadcast, and enjoyed it, then you might be interested to know that the full gig's being re-broadcast, tomorrow night. More details here.