A quick note about updates to the site. I have been spending most of my blogging time working on how the site operates, rather than uploading new content. The new features include:

• Get updates by email – click the orange button (RSS) in the upper right hand corner of the front page. There are a few different subscription options, including RSS feeds to your favorite reader and email updates. To get updates by email, click the box that says “Get Listen delivered by email,” enter your email address, enter the code in the window, check your email, click the link, and then what happens – as the provider says – “no new content, no new email.” Simple.
• Share postings – At the bottom of each posting are two links, one that says Share This and one that says Share on Facebook. If you click on Share This, you will see a bunch of Web 2.0 sites that allow you to share my postings. Share on Facebook, if you subscribe to it.

Now that I have gotten these two things (and many, many other things) up and running, here’s what else I’m working on, content-wise:

• Short reviews of current music in any genre
• Longer reviews of, well, any kind of music. I have been thinking about Bjork and Sun Ra a lot recently – no, not separately, but together. Maybe I’ll even do a mash up
• Quick links to important happenings in the music industry, just to keep you up to date (in case you aren’t already following this stuff)
• Longer posts on music industry shenanigans. Recently I have been tracking stories on how artists establish themselves, CD “sales,” the end of the Internet-Music-World as we know it, and of course, our friends at Clear Channel.

So, thanks again. Subscribe to RSS or email updates. It’s more fun that way.

Thanks,

Rick McLaughlin