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Occupy the Music Industry
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The falling security of the US economy bears an uncanny resemblance to the relative microcosm that is the music Industry. The occupy movements 99% are angry at the 1% with all the wealth. Those at the top are overtly occupied with increasing their own worth, with little respect for the prosperity of people who make up the majority of the population. The success rate of musicians is staggeringly similar to the 99 to 1 statistics. Those with power enjoy the ...
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Blogger Criticizes Artists for Making Money; Tunecore CEO Jeff Price Responds
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TuneCore CEO Jeff Price responds: Before I say another word, yes, I know I'm rising to the bait. I know this response means more eyeballs for Digital Music News—a semi-legitimate music industry blog that tends to be sensational to drive eyeballs. I know that Paul Resnikoff's constant personal attacks on TuneCore and me are a goad and good for his web traffic. Okay, sometimes the only way to refute a gambit is to accept it. If this means more people ...
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Active vs. Passive Fans: Why Radio and TV Still Rank Tops for Music Discovery
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The data presented in a recent NPD Group/NARM study found terrestrial radio and syndicated television among the main influential sources of music discovery (60% and 49% respectively). With all the new avenues for music discovery out there, why are the majority of people still choosing to shape their musical tastes through premeditated and controlled media sources? By assessing the data, it leads one to believe that the majority of music consumers are not taking full advantage of this new media age we live in. ...
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Big Mistake? Pandora Currently Has No Plans to Integrate into Facebook...
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Digital Music News
A Spotify-style Facebook integration is not on the roadmap for Pandora—and may never be—according to founder Tim Westergren. Instead, the company is pushing a strategy that prioritizes Pandora's homegrown social networking tools, while still enabling some push updates and connectivity options through Facebook, Twitter, and email. “We're going to watch how [those tools are] embraced and what listeners tell us and that will sort of dictate how do we evolve it over time," Westergren recently told Forbes. And, that's not ...
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Benny Golson on the Value of an Interview
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
In our ongoing series of dialogues with artists on their expectations of music critics & journalists, and the publications they write for, NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson—one of the more thoughtful people in this music—weighed in with two essays. Here is the second of Benny's two erudite contributions to the dialogue. The Value Of An Interview In the early nineties, after being interviewed by a respected journalist of international repute, I was told by a mutual friend of ours that ...
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Pete Townshend: "Rock Music is Junk", iTunes is a "Vampire" and "What's Next is Already Here."
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The BBC invited The Who's Pete Townshend to give a lecture in honor of iconic UK broadcaster John Peel. During the wide ranging, smart and often amusing speech, Townsend professed his love of streaming music and called iTunes a vampire. But that was just the start... Pete Townsend: Firstly, I'm honored to have been asked to do this first lecture in the name of John Peel. John and I were never close friends, and I know he was not ...
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Part 7: What Musicians Expect from Music Critics and Journalists
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
This is Pt. 7 in our series of dialogues with musicians where we pose the following burning question: When you read music journalism and criticism, what qualities are you looking for in the writer and the writing? This week's correspondents: Drummer-bandleader Allison Miller, and flutist-bandleader-composer Nicole Mitchell. Allison Miller “I look for writers who are open to, and take the time to understand the “concept and statement" behind an artists musical presentation. I like writers who attempt to interpret the ...
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Madonna's Brother is Currently Sleeping Under a Bridge in Michigan...
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Digital Music News
Could there be a starker commentary on America right now? Try this for income inequality: it turns out that Madonna's older brother Anthony Ciccone is now sleeping under a bridge in Traverse City, Michigan, after a fallout with the family. And this is a 'gruesome,' sub-zero existence: as temperatures continue to drop, Ciccone has already suffered frostbite on his feet. “My family turned their back on me, basically, when I was having a hard time," Anthony Ciccone told the Michigan ...
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