MySpace Music: iTunes killer or MyMess?
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
MySpace Music, the new online music service from MySpace.com, lets you stream millions of songs for free, share playlists, and download MP3s. But critics complain that the site is hopelessly cluttered and that independent labels are being shut out. Today: a Soundcheck Smackdown on the merits of MySpace Music. Also: 23-year-old bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding is bringing a fresh approach to the sometimes stodgy world of jazz vocalists, mixing the traditions of soul, pop, world music and more. She performs live in our studio.
Guests:
Esperanza SpaldingThe MySpace Debate
The popular social networking website has always been a place for small bands to reach out to fans and in many cases, achieve success. But the website is now owned by Ruphert Murdoch and when it launched its online music store last month it left the indies out. In the ...
Esperanza Spalding
Jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding has always been precocious. She started playing the club scene Portland, Ore., as a teenager. When she was 20, she became the youngest faculty member ever at Berklee College of Music in Boston. And now at 23, after playing with jazz giants like Herbie ...
Lost in (My)Space
So yesterday, I’m on the plane flying back from Paris, and since I’d already seen a couple of the English-language movies on offer, and didn’t feel like trying to make out the subtitles on the French films, I watched an indie Scottish flick called ...