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The New Creative Class: Will They Disrupt Music Production?
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The starving artist is quickly becoming a thing of the past. And with new digital tools arriving daily and empower artists, we are seeing a birth of a new creative class: The artist entrepreneur. These producers are ditching their previous gigs for a more lucrative day job; one that balances equal parts business-know-how with artistic talent. Guest Post by Rory Seydel on Landr.com Meet Rich Aitken of Nimrod Productions. Over the past 15 years Rich has made music for AAA games, selling over 300,000,000 copies as well as producing ...
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Ornette Coleman, Traditionalist
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
There will be a funeral service for the saxophonist, composer, bandleader and iconoclast Ornette Coleman in Manhattan at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning, June 27. Coleman died on June 11 at the age of 85. Rifftides noted his passing that day. The service at The Riverside Church, between W. 122 St. and W. 120 St., will be open to the public. Thoughts of Coleman took me to a day in the 1960s not long after the release of his album Free ...
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Have Large Music Festivals Peaked?
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Music festivals here. Music festivals there. Music festivals everywhere. Are there too many music festivals? Despite some signs to the contrary, legendary music manager and promoter Harvey Goldsmith says we reach the peak and a decline is coming. According to music industry veteran Harvey Goldsmith, music festivals have reached their apogee and the current world of major festival events will soon be a thing of the past. “The festival circuit has peaked. It really peaked about two years ago. There's ...
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Zoe Keating’s Experience Shows Us Why YouTube’s Attitude To Creators Must Change
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By Mark Mulligan on Music Industry Blog It is easy to think of the internet as a mature medium, especially for those who were born into the internet era. However we are still at the earliest of stages. We are where radio was in the 1930’s and where TV was in the 1950’s: the first signs of the future markets are in place but the real maturation is yet to come. The greats of those early days, the Marconis and the RCAs, are now long ...
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The Death of the (Musical) Middle Class
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Guest Post by Courtney Harding on This Week In Music Tech Tumblr With the publication of Ethan Kaplan’s totally brilliant “Generic Article About Spotify” a few weeks ago, I thought we’d truly hit the limit on how many ways we could skin the streaming cat. But alas, here’s comes noted old white man and Pink Floyd member Nick Mason to complain about Spotify (and Apple. How cute, he thinks it’s 2006!) They don’t pay artists. They “devalue” music. Only one more cliche and I get ...
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Not Another Streaming Debate
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Guest post by LIVIA TORTELLA of Black Box In 2009, Jordan Kurland invited me to my first Bandwidth Conference when it was hosted in San Francisco; great name, no press, invitation only. The space was perfect for productive and intimate conversations. Five years later, Ashli Lewis (founder and organizer of Bandwidth) continues to keep the conference true to it’s roots as a music meets technology heart-to-heart. When I got a call from Ashli over the summer inviting me to lead a discussion at Bandwidth, I immediately thought yes. I asked my ...
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2014: The Year Nothing in Music Broke, and Nothing Got Fixed
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By Cortney Harding on This Week In Music Tech. This was the year of the treadmill. I mean that both for me personally (ever train for an ultra-marathon during a polar vortex?) and for the music business as a whole. 2014 felt like a whole lot of running, but there was no real forward movement — everyone wound up in pretty much the same place they started. There was some big stories, of course. Beats Music launched, attracted something like ...
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Why Streaming (Done Right) Will Save the Music Business
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By Jason Epstein and Rob Glaser, members of the board of directors of Rhapsody. “There’s somethin’ happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear...” —Stephen Stills When the legendary American rock band Buffalo Springfield sang those words in 1966, they were singing about a youth uprising in LA, at a place called “Pandora’s Box.” Little did anyone know that almost 50 years later these words would be an equally apt way to describe another youth uprising, surrounding another Pandora, as ...
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