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One Year Later: Why I Don't Love Spotify
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Guest post by Kyle Bylin of Live Nation Labs. I've had Spotify for exactly one year. When I first started using Spotify, it sparked an emotion that I hadn't felt since I encountered Audiogalaxy, an early file sharing client, for the first time. I sought out all the music I could think of, amassing a library of 3,901 songs and 848 albums. This is almost nothing compared to the amount of music I used to have, but it felt so exhilarating ...
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Curation: The Evolution of the Global Brain
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Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. “Those who can, do. Those who can't, review. Those who can't review, tweet. Those who can't tweet retweet." That quote is zinging around the internet this week. People are attributing it to Esquire, although I'm not finding it there. I first saw it, ironically, on Facebook. It's also on Twitter, of course. The sentiment expressed above is funny, in a mocking sort of way. It sounds good, but it also makes a ...
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Roman Candles Across the Stars
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The title of today's post is abridged from Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Here's the full passage: “I shambled after, as I've been doing all my life, after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow ...
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Jazz, Politics, Edward Kennedy and the Ghosts of Richard Nixon: Our American Dialogue and the Hatfields and McCoys
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Jazz (Jazzers Jazzing) by Carl L. Hager
To get into heaven, don't snap for a seven Live clean, don't have no fault Oh, I take the gospel, whenever it's possible But with a grain of salt —"It Ain't Necessarily So," from Porgy & Bess by George and Ira Gershwin Edward Kennedy Ellington celebrated his 70th birthday at the White House, where he received the first Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by the newly inaugurated chief resident. Although Duke Ellington ...
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In Defense of Emily White (the NPR Intern)
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This morning I was scrolling through my Twitter feed and happened to click on a post by Josh Jackson that stated “David Lowery Responds to NPR Music Intern who doesn't pay for music." I clicked on the article and was shocked to see my name in the headline. But then I realized, the article was referring to a student who tweeted at me a few months ago saying “Oh the woes of having THE most common English name." I haven't ...
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Does the Digital Album Have a Future?
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Guest post by Aaron Tap (@aarontap), a guitarist, singer, and producer who performs and records with the likes of Matt Nathanson, Paula Kelley, and more. Despite the shift to single-serve music culture, there remains a significant group of fans who want something more from their digital music. Listeners who yearn for a more tactile and immersive experience that helps them delve deeper into their music as if it were being served via an LP. To date, there have been some notable ...
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If the Internet is Global, Why is Music Still so Regional?
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Digital Music News
Sure, great music transcends borders. But music apps, for the most part, do not. It's a strange state of affairs: the web is global in theory, yet in the 'legit' digital music world, it's all about country-by-country restrictions and licensing hangups. Pandora is famously absent from the UK, one of the most important music markets in the world. Spotify took years to cross into the US, and just recently launched in Australia (after starting in 2008). YouTube regularly restricts videos ...
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Streaming Music Will Change Culture for the Better. Here's How:
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Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Forget, for the moment, about how much Spotify pays out to artists. Focus instead on the nature of those payouts. In the olden days (i.e. 20 years ago), recording artists had to convince you to fall for their music once - just long enough to buy a CD. Since the inception of pop music as a physical format, this need to impress the music buyer for a short length of time gave ...
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