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Music Industry Fail: This Time It's Personal.
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HypeBot
The big mistake that the industry continues to make is that too many are thinking of music in terms of social engagement, when it is actually a deeply personal experience. The huge success of Amanda Palmers Kickstarter campaign, which has so far raised over half a million dollars, exemplifies this point. People are willing to shell out on music when they feel a personal connection to it. When they feel part of the process on a very personal level - ...
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Musicians and the Public Image
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MusicianWages.com
By Chuck Anderson Is it just me or have you ever noticed that musicians are consistently portrayed by the advertising media as losers, homeless, broke, druggies, alcoholics or just plain simpletons? From my perspective, I am not only offended by this but enraged enough to try to raise consciousness about this entire subject. Are some musicians druggies and alcoholics? Yes, but so are some lawyers and doctors. There are very few harder working and dedicated professionals than those working in ...
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India Provides a Glimpse into the Future
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Digital Cowboys By Dave Kusek
ll markets are not the same. Most people in India have not had access to high-speed Internet or a PC. The wired broadband penetration of India stands at about 13 million subscriptions and there are only 50 million PCs in the country. Very few Indians have broadband or a PC of their own. 3G expands consumer audience by 100 million listeners Despite the lack of broadband and PC penetration, there are currently 121 million Internet users in India. Guess where ...
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Tyler Hayes: Apps vs. Music
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Guest post by Tyler Hayes, founder of Liisten.com, an independent music discovery site.. Spotify will lose close to $900 million this year. Are we still sure that subscription services will save the industry? A better hope at trading music for money and becoming profitable is to look at the app market, specifically iOS and the Mac app store. The app-as-a-business model, which has been around, but has recently been popularized by Apple's iOS, has too many similarities and things that ...
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Modern Jazz at the Apollo Theater
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Modern Jazz at the Apollo: 1950s-1960s When the Apollo Theatre opened the doors for its inaugural show on Friday, January 26, 1934, the trendsetting variety bill included the great jazzman Benny Carter and his orchestra. The big band, or so-called Swing Era was in full flower and these swinging 17-piece behemoths, sparkplugs of the happy feet crowd at historic Harlem haunts like the Savoy Ballroom, soon found a welcoming home at the Apollo. Such great big bands as those of ...
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Music Exec Jimmy Iovine Calls Subscription Music "Culturally Inadequate", Plans Alternative
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Jimmy Iovine, the chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, is dissatisfied with the current state of subscription music and has plans to do something about it. But what concerns Iovine is not the revenue paid to artists and labels, but rather the quality of the experience. “Right now, subscription music online is culturally inadequate," Iovine told Bloomberg BusinessWeek. “It needs feel. It needs culture What Apple has in the downloading world is very, very good. But subscription has an enormous ...
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At Least One Indie Artist is Making Big $'s from Streaming Music
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Guest post by Chris Duncan of The Orchard's Daily Rind. If you're from outside of Scandinavia, you probably have no idea who Jonathan Johansson is. Let me fill you in. He's a very hip Swedish artist who has been steadily building a healthy fanbase in the Nordics with the aid of his label, Hybris. It was recently reported in Denmark's Børsen newspaper (equivalent to the Financial Times or the Wall Street Journal) that Jonathan Johansson made more than $20,000 from ...
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Missing Gene Lees
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Gene Lees died two years ago this month, on April 22. That day I wrote, “We lost a writer unsurpassed at illuminating music and the world that musicians inhabit. I lost a cherished colleague whose work inspired me, a dear friend whose companionship brightened my existence.” The Portland, Oregon, broadcaster, poet and visual essayist Lynn Darroch was another of Gene’s friends and admirers, although, he said in a message, “It wasn’t a smooth ride.” There were no smooth rides with ...
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