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[Current] statistics show that the sale of CDs have reached an all time low, and when combined with the current world economic crisis it certainly casts an ominous shadow over the recorded music business globally. The prognosis is worsening, with the UK’s biggest independent distributor Pinnacle Entertainment going bust this week.
Pinnacle handle the record distribution for over 400 independent labels, and it employed more than 90 staff, so their bankruptcy will come as a major blow to the music scene worldwide. The range of labels represented by Pinnacle include One Little Indian (Bjork, Sigur Ros, Sneaker Pimps), Burning Heart (REFUSED, The Hives, Boysetsfire, Millencolin), Rough Trade (Belle & Sebastian, The Strokes, Antony & The Johnsons, Arcade Fire) and many more.
NME.com report that the trade body for independent labels, AIM, have called an emergency meeting to put together a strategy for how to help the huge number of labels now in danger of going down with Pinnacle’s sinking ship. The accountancy firm BDO Stoy Hayward have been appointed as Pinnacle’s administrator, and their business restructuring director Matthew Tait told Billboard that they are going to “handle the trading assets and work with the company to achieve the most favourable outcome.”[Current] statistics show that the sale of CDs have reached an all time low, and when... more
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Kanye West's career said to be out there somewhere as well.
Amateur astronomers are monitoring a shiny tool bag that has been orbiting Earth ever since it was dropped last week by an astronaut during a spacewalk outside the international space station.
[see the 'bag that got away' » http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27905284#27905284]
Veteran spacewalker Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, a member of the shuttle Endeavour's visiting crew, lost her grip on the backpack-sized bag on Nov. 18. At the time, she was cleaning up a mess from a leaking grease gun she was carrying to help mop up metal grit from inside a massive gear that turns the space station's starboard solar wings.
The tool bag cost $100,000. and its loss meant astronauts had to share the remaining tool bag for subsequent spacewalks.
Once the tool bag floated away, some thought they'd seen the end of it. Not quite. A satellite tracker at Spaceweather.com now is monitoring both the space station and the tool bag.
After sunset on Saturday, Edward Light, using 10 x 50 binoculars, spotted the bag in space while he scanned the sky from his backyard in Lakewood, N.J., Spaceweather.com reported. On the same night, Keven Fetter of Brockville, Ontario, video-recorded the bag as it passed by the star Eta Pisces in the constellation Pisces.
More bag-viewing opportunities are expected.Kanye West's career said to be out there somewhere as well.
Amateur... more
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