'Sell out with me, oh yeah...': White Lies and Weezer attempt to answer the question of how to make music pay

The music industry is in trouble. A bold statement? Not really. It seems to be the stock phrase with artists, labels, music journalists and media analysts everywhere these days.

People are not paying for music to the same degree as they used to, and are accessing their music in other ways, mainly for free, and mainly illegally. Industry experts are looking for the answer, but at the moment, have had very little success. Despite this having been a hot topic for a while now, it has been driven home to me over the past week, with the coming together of a couple entrepreneurial  experiments that I felt failed terribly.

LOST? I am, especially when mapping the workings of Rivers Cuomo's mind.

Firstly, I popped to a show last week with my good friend James (or The Popscener as he is known to the blogosphere).

Should be doing journalism work but couldn't resist...

Just a quick one, really.

I'm completely snowed under with work at the moment, so this has been a little neglected, but I promise I'll pick it up again very soon when I find something of importance to write about. I'm loving the new Relient K album, so maybe a review of that will be coming your way at some point.

But in the meantime, in true procrastinating student style, and in the wake of my Top 50 of the 00s feature, I decided to create a new Spotify playlist.

I tried to put one track from each of the albums in the playlist, but unfortunately Spotify didn't host all of them, so it falls short by six tracks or so. By the same problem, some tracks are live versions or are those appearing on compilations.

Anyway, you can hear my playlist here.

Give it a listen and enjoy! Hopefully it will open your ears up to some fantastic artists, both old and new.

Catch you on the flipside...