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Last.FM, the UK based, social-music platform – with over 20 million registered users – have launched their ‘Campaign for better music’ with the ‘Now form a band’ web site, designed to be a leg-up guide to the sites and softs that could prove helpful in the promotion of unsigned bands. From the site manifesto:

In the old days, if you wanted a career in music, there were only a few ways to do it. And once you managed to get the attention of a record company, lots of other people – like managers, A&R reps, producers, label executives (even accountants !) – would get involved with your music. Some of those people were great. Some of them weren’t.

Things are different now. Music is changing.

The Campaign for Better Music is here to say: it doesn’t have to be like the old days. We’re going to show you how to produce, promote and distribute your music, without spending a load of money, and without lots of other people getting involved.

…Things are changing in music – you should be a part of it.

Things are changing, the goal posts have moved – it’s true. Now Radiohead have gone the last mile and ripped the rule book into shreds.

In Rainbows is perhaps the most anticipated album of the last five years, but now it’s on its way out, what’s causing the headlines is this:

…what makes In Rainbows important — easily the most important release in the recent history of the music business — are its record label and its retail price: there is none, and there is none. #

Radiohead.com has a redirect to a tailor made site for the album sales. Here, you can either pay for a “discbox,” which will include the new album on both CD and vinyl, as well as an additional CD of seven extra songs and photos, artwork and lyrics, or downoad the album in mp3 and pay as much as you see fit! It wont be available until the 10th Oct. but you can pre-order.Hit me with your memory stick, it’s nice to be a lunatic …

Remembered: Creep winner of the Art category in the FlashForward film festival awards (Boston) last month (you might have seen it before, its been around a while now), from www.lowmorale.co.uk