Boston.com (via Kings of A&R) wrote about Dresden Dolls YouTube viewership. The band has 300,000 views of its video "Backstabber," which the band created without support of its label. "The wonderfully democratic thing about YouTube and the Internet in general," said Dresen Dolls' singer Amanda Palmer, "is that all you need is a good idea and a way to execute it."

(No mention was made of Moby's cheaply made videos (here's one, "New York, New York"), which were released to YouTube and attracted no buzz whatsoever.)

"We're looking at a changing economy, in which music is free, and artists are going to have to learn to make their living through touring and merchandise sales," says Palmer. Now that's very true. For a band that chooses to live off small nightly takes and merch sales, YouTube and MP3s will suffice. They'll have their pick of about a dozen or so U.S. cities in which people actually go out to shows on a Monday night, but it'll be possible.

Sonicbids also gets a mention in the article. It's a company that aims to lower the cost involved with hooking up artists with promoters.