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According to the New York Times, Radiohead is set to leave the major record labels out of the loop again with a deal to release their new album In Rainbows on CD with a indie label (the band already self-released the album digitally). The band is apparently set to sign a deal with the British label XL Recordings to distribute the album in international markets and with ATO Records in the United States. The band has had some positive dealings with indies before, especially XL, when front man Thom Yorke's solo album The Eraser was released last year.

The newspaper reports "under the proposed deal, Radiohead would license the album for a specified period of time but retain ownership of the recording." That proposal is not surprising, but one has to wonder whether the deal will also add the album to other digital stores, namely Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s iTunes Store, or the new Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) MP3 store. With the success and continued availability of Radiohead's own store for the album, that seems unlikely, but the indie labels do seem to have more healthy relationships with the digital stores than their major counterparts.

Although the details and confirmation of the reported deal are unavailable to the New York Times, the prospect that Radiohead will leave the majors behind is quite in keeping with the band's moves thus far. Even before the album's release was announced, it had been speculated that Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE: WMG), whose sister publishing firm manages the band's composition rights, would be interested. Another rumor sparked was that Starbucks' (NASDAQ: SBUX) Hear Music would take an interest, after the company's coup with Paul McCartney.

In any case, Radiohead's move away from major labels is no surprise, but could such a "free" deal have been made with a major or are the independent label's distribution networks that formidable. Hopefully when the details are officially announced the answers will be provided.

Radiohead reportedly leaving out major labels in album deal originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Following the solo catalogs of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and Ringo Starr, George Harrison has joined the digital market this week.

Despite being the last solo Beatle catalog to be made available, Harrison's catalog is the most recent to be upgraded and remastered for physical release, and those editions are the versions now available in digital stores. While that is no surprise, what it means is that there are two albums actually missing from the new digital catalog: 1974s Dark Horse and 1975s Extra Texture (Read All About It). It seems apparent from remarks by Harrison's widow, Olivia, that the remastering work will not cease because of this move.

All that remains now is for The Beatles catalog to be made available, but that is still rumored for some time in the new year. With that addition, quite a body of work will be available for fans and listeners digitally, even if the solo catalogs are not true successors to the group's catalog. It is unfortunate that the solo catalog's would be made available before the group catalog, especially for new fans that have no guide to understand how the music of the solo catalog's follows and makes distance from the output of The Beatles. Some might see that as a positive in light of views that The Beatles were a John or a Paul show, but that is what it is.

The reality of the situation is that The Beatles managing company Apple Corps Ltd. was in dispute with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) for so long, pushing off other projects like remastering (which now seems to coincide with the pending digital release). The Apple vs. Apple case ended in April 2006 in favor of the iPod makers. Apple is reportedly one of the major companies in talks with The Beatles representatives to get the band into stores like iTunes.

George Harrison's solo catalog goes digital originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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