"Let's get everything working, then tell the majors: we want your catalogue and we'll pay. " To this end, Garner says, a stock exchange float of his various companies at the peak of the dotcom boom would have funded music33. "The Friday morning before the float I was in the Savoy hotel, thinking, 'On Monday, I'll trouser 26m quid'. Then the waiter came over and said, 'Call for you, Mr Garner. ' Everything was off – the dotcom boom had imploded. Mintball and my other company Pharmweb went down and we couldn't get anything for music33. Tech finance had collapsed. No one would go near anything like it for two years, by which time Steve Jobs was on his way. " Music33 was quietly abandoned. Months later, in October 2001, Apple launched the iPod MP3 player, which held 1, 000 songs. The iTunes store followed (in 2003 in the US, 2004 in the UK) with an initial 200, 000-song library from top labels sold at 79p per song. It delivered 1m tracks a day within two years. In 2010, iTunes sold its 10 billionth MP3.
Brittany Howard, 'Baby' There are a handful of standout tracks on Brittany Howard's standout solo debut, Jaime, but none quite as mood-setting, heart-pinching, or straight-up soul-moving as "Baby. " As the frontwoman for the Alabama Shakes, Howard is no stranger to unbuttoned emotion—when she's dialed in, her voice strikes like a force of nature, complete enchantment—but "Baby" allows for a fascinating study of her range as a performer: It covers the high, low, and middle ground of her signature blues-funk warble. The song builds slowly before its reaches its peaks and all crashes down. "Baby" hits you at your core. Angel Olsen, 'New Love Cassette' In an interview with Pitchfork, the St. Louis singer-songwriter said "New Love Cassette" was about her trying to "love as openly as possible, " something she'd rarely done before. Backed by a 12-piece string section, Olsen contemplates deep affection in a kind of whisper-mumble croon. But where her voice barely registers above a shout, everything else on the song feels completely cinematic.
We finished auditions last year and then got back together two weeks later for deliberations and I said straightaway, "Right, what have been doing, because you look amazing! "' 'He said what he'd started doing, the foods he'd been cutting out and how it had made such a difference in just two weeks. So, I just feel happy for him. ' She added though that she hopes with the new look, Simon will revert to his famous Mr Nasty TV person. 'I'm hoping that means he gets back to being more evil, because I think he's gone a bit soft, ' she pointed out Spot the difference: The music and TV mogul lost an incredible 20Ibs after adopting a healthier vegan lifestyle last year (pictured left in 2020 and right 2018) 'Now he's back to his slimmer self, I think he's going to go back to being Mr Nasty! Which I'm really praying for, because that's who I love. I love evil Simon best of all! ' Simon's new healthy regime has come at a cost though as Amanda also said that he's skipping out on their post show dinners.
He had lost his glittering back catalogue in 1992 when Factory went bust because of the infamous "non-contract contract" that stated, "Factory own nothing. All our bands have the freedom to fuck off. " So he was no longer taken as seriously as a business prospect. "I think they saw him as a court jester, " Garner sighs. Instead, Wilson went to small, mainly regional indies, amassing Mick Hucknall's dub label Blood and Fire, hip-hop label Grand Central and Manchester dance label Skam, who had Autechre and Boards of Canada. Great artists, but not exactly the Beatles or Madonna. Clarke remembers doing Boards of Canada's first music33 royalties run – "I think it was for £18. " Manchester label Urbanite got £50. "A cheque signed by Anthony H Wilson, " laughs label co-founder Phil Birchenall. "I wish we'd framed it. " Steve Jobs introduces the second-generation iPod in 2003. Photograph: AP To take things to a serious level, Wilson needed capital. "I said, Tony, you need to walk in with money in your back pocket, " says Garner.