Paints an interesting picture doesn’t it?  Goes to show why I play music for the love of it, rather than focus on money.  Sure I love selling albums, and this helps fund future recording, as well as pay off old recordings, but if anybody needed any proof that the music industry isn’t exactly lined with gold these days it’s this.  Don’t give up your day job.

Yeah yeah tell me something I don’t know right.

This morning I found this site called The Next Big Thing. It’s basically a real time stats tool, that compares an artists plays, comments, and fans across various social media sites, like Last FM, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube.  Perfect for an artist, so they can work out where to focus their attention.

This would of course be easy if I didn’t have a name like Dave Anderson, and seemingly 4-5 accounts.

So instead I wanted to compare a few of my favourite singer/songwriters:

David Ford vs David Gray vs Damien Rice

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I’ve found a new hiding spot online to put my album. I say hiding spot, because there is just so much out there, quality stuff to, that just sits dormant waiting for somebody to open the draw, brush off the cobwebs and tune in.

This website is called thesixtyone.com

It’s an online radio basically, where you can listen to tunes for free.  Like most things I think it’s US based, and I haven’t figured out if I can sort by country, or even music from your city, because I think it would be good to find somebody local so I can go see them live.  i.e not on a computer machine.

The thing with this website that I like is that it has really big pretty pictures that go with the music, unlike Lastfm which has kind of small one’s. I like being able to picture a mood in a song, or in a band, which is something that iTunes doesn’t do. Makes me feel as though I kind of know them, or I kind of get what they are trying to convey.

I’m thinking we really need to return to the days where we envoke all the senses in a musical experience.  Not just shuffle it on your crappy, no screen ipod.

So I’ve put up some pictures to go with my songs. It’s kind of cool, but I guess if I had more time I’d play with the pictures and make them really special.

Here’s my new little hiding spot

Hype Machine is one of my favourite sites for discovering new music.  The website scours the interweb, and compiles a ‘real time’ ranking of what’s hot in music. Yep you no longer have to wait for the kids at Triple J to tell you wh’at’s hot.

Recently published on the site is  the Top 50 of 2009, with rankings for artists, albums and songs.  Not only is it a great resource, it looks damn cool and you can stream the music.

Anyway I thought you all might be keen to also discover another way to lose a few hours, and find yourself some new music.  I’m presently locked on Antler’s | Hospice.  Never really heard them before but I’m hooked.

Off you go. http://hypem.com/zeitgeist/2009/