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The Velvet's first album is still ahead of its time.

Fellow blogger and Salon editor Scott Rosenberg reviews Motavalli’s “Bamboozled at the Revolution” and Weinberger’s “Small Pieces Loosely Joined.”: So we know who got bamboozled. But who did the bamboozling? There really are no culprits — aside from one sad account of software hustlers actually defrauding the folks at the …

Do what we say or we will record you poorly – Ha Haaa!: Issues surrounding the music industry are heating up, and most stories revolve around the record labels, musicians, congress, consumers, and music pirates. Often lost in the noise is the importance of another major player in the business: …

Brad Hill comments on issues pertaining to classical music and the digital revolution: I’m a lifelong classical fan, and take a special interest in the digital distribution of this genre. Because of the length of its tracks, the demographics of its audience, and the relationship of orchestras to record labels, …

How’s this for a European sensibility, although I would have hoped for better from the British: The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Eurythmics, Culture Club: What do they all have in common? They’re British and they all topped the American charts, mid-’60s to mid-’80s, mop-top pop to camp …

Peculiar but interesting discussion of this site going on at Blogroots (see comments): people are having a hard time figuring out what we are. Are we a blog, a magazine, a community? I think we are all of the above. What do you think we are?

Pho’s Jim Griffin on the state of the biz: the worm is turning at record companies and their media parents everywhere, where financial statements and audits and following trails of money leads you to an industry swirling the drain and praying for the deus ex machinas of technology and government …

Blogger Pontifex addresses MP3s and other Blogcritics topics: There are, as far as I can tell, two propositions of the MP3 proponents: Downloading is not significantly harming CD sales. If record companies don’t coopt the P2P movement, they’ll be out of business. I’m hoping those are two schools of thought, …

It’s lonely at the top: Hilary Rosen, chairman and chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, has the kind of public profile most trade association chiefs would kill for. She is always in the papers, she regularly appears in media industry rankings such as Entertainment Weekly’s “Annual Power …

State Sen. Kevin Murray (D-Culver City) attacks RIAA on the “seven-year rule” in Billboard: The RIAA last week issued a statement outlining five concessions it claimed had been made by labels in their ongoing talks with artists’ groups over the seven-year rule. According to Sen. Kevin Murray (D-Culver City), what …