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Torrentfreak Face the Music: Grooveshark is Doomed
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Moses Supposes
About two weeks back my article on which P2P sites would be affected if Congress takes makes illegal streaming a felony, caught the attention of TorrentFreak.com. And why not. They made my list of sites that would have to radically alter their content and advertisers if such a law went in effect. Well, Ernesto, the lead writer for TorrentFreak and his fans bashed me with meatball Psychoanalysis but ultimately offered no real counter argument to mine, except one—GrooveShark: aP2Pish streaming ...
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Music Degrees, $50,000 and the Military Band
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MusicianWages.com
I've been checking out some of the recent blogs here at MusicianWages, in particular, How to Actually Make $50,000 a Year and How Do I Get A Job After Music School and felt something really should be said about the military musician, since many of us have music degrees and make over $50,000 a year. First off, making a living as a musician is -NEWS FLASH- not easy. Graduating from music school with a shiny new degree does not guarantee ...
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Why Bands Need to Track Their Merch
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We All Make Music
Every time I attend a show, I check out what the bands are selling at the merchandise table. When I like a band enough to buy a record, usually I spend some time talking to the band members to get an idea of when the record was made, where they recorded, and so on. There is also something else I pay attention to when I buy a record or other merchandise. I watch carefully to see if whoever sells me ...
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My Life an Album a Year
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Dusty Wright's Culture Catch
By Steve Holtje My 50th birthday was March 29, which has me feeling retrospective. I could just make lists of favorite albums, but that would mostly cluster around my formative years (lots of '70s and '80s stuff). Going a year at a time produced a more nuanced and less obvious set of albums. Thanks for indulging me, it's the best birthday present. 1961 Bill Evans: Sunday at the Village Vanguard (Riverside) Of course, in 1961 I wasn't actually ...
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2001 Flashback - Experts Believe MP3 Can Be Killed
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HypeBot
Pho, an infamous music industry and technology e-mail listserv, unearthed a great WSJ article from 2001 the other day. It documents the uptake in interest in the MP3 several months before the first iPod launched. The record industry wanted to make the MP3 obsolete, since it was an “unprotected" format, and it looked to the tech companies like Microsoft to help them do it. Now, it's no surprise that the record industry resisted the MP3 and did anything in their ...
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Artists: Stop Giving Away Your Most Valuable Asset...
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Digital Music News
The following is an open letter from artist and music entrepreneur Evan Lowenstein. He's the 'Evan' in Evan & Jaron and founder of StageIt (stageit.com, @backstageit), a company that allows artists to monetize interactive, live experiences online. Most recently, they've attracted participation from Jimmy Buffett. “Over the past ten years, technology has enabled our fans to enjoy our music for free. If you're an unknown artist looking to get discovered, this has been a real boon for you. On the ...
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Music, the Man and the P2P Rebellion: Are Copyrights the Vietnam of Today's Youth?
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Moses Supposes
Where once pop music was the soundtrack of the revolution, now it's the revolution's object. Clearly this is not your daddy's sit-in. But today's youth may be in for a rude awakening when they realize what they are really rebelling against— their own freedom. I grew up in the aftermath of the “hippie" era; the one that made political protests into a social activity. You risked arrest to end the Vietnam War— and met girls. Music was the rallying point. ...
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A Psychological Analysis of Record Industry Decline
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HypeBot
Everyone has their own theory on why the record industry is in decline. In part, they all hold a grain of truth. Hundreds of things helped exacerbate the process—some obvious, others not. The diagnosis will always remain open to speculation. After ten years (or more) of the smartest minds in various fields prognosticating and predicting the death and subsequent rebirth of the record industry, it's quite difficult to offer an original take on what happened. It's all been said, at least ...
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