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Are All-or-Nothing Music Crowdfunding Campaigns Superior to Flexible Funding?
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HypeBot
One of the many widespread assumptions regarding crowdfunding is that all-or-nothing campaigns, required by Kickstarter, give those campaigns a psychological boost due to factors such as urgency when the campaign's success is in doubt. In fact, much of the argument for all-or-nothing over flexible funding, often associated with Indiegogo, focuses on such psychological factors. While this makes me think that the problem isn't in the funding model, it also makes me realize that we need to find out more about ...
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Spotify and the Dark Arts
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Hey, my name's Alex. I rap (decently) I blog (above average) and I tweet (unsatisfactorily.) Check me out. When Coldplay announced they weren’t releasing their album on Spotify a few months back, it got me thinking; I’ve been streaming music for a couple of years now and I’ve never thought about how this is affecting everyone. Is this service really that beneficial to the music industry? Is it beneficial to me as an artist? While it does offer up a ...
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Is Digital Payola Involved in Music Discovery and Recommendation?
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By Taylor Lambert and Kevin Erickson for Future of Music Coalition. In the age of on-demand streaming, it’s common to hear people talk about music as “limitless”— something that flows forth endlessly like water. Indeed, musicians around the world release a huge volume of new music every day. But in practice, most consumers’ exposure to the world of new music is extremely limited. It’s one of the thorniest problems—if there’s so much music out there, why do consumers end up ...
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Kid Jazz?
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
I fail to comprehend how an organization that boasts the jazz savvy David Cezares can repeatedly stumble in its other references to jazz. Ever since MPR removed jazz programming from its state affiliates (despite the ongoing options provided by parent NPR), we find occasional nonsense in its print offspring, Minnesota Monthly. I recall the statement a few years ago that went something like “jazz is hard to find and difficult to understand." (And that was when it was easier to ...
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How Will Twitch Acquisition Influence YouTube?
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By Corey Rice of The AristoMedia Group. YouTube’s acquisition of Twitch has a lot of feathers ruffled over how Google’s influence will affect the social broadcasting gaming site. Will users be forced to login with Google+? Will they have to contend with Google’s voracious content ID system? But the really exciting part of this acquisition is what Twitch’s influence will be on YouTube. Twitch is valuable because they’ve created a truly interactive broadcast environment for gamers. Viewers can voice or ...
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Here are jazz's 12 most important musicians
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Michael Ricci
Herbie Hancock — pianist, composer and maker of musical revolutions — is coming to San Francisco this week (May 16-18) for a series of sold-out shows at SFJazz. With his visit in mind, wheels began to turn: Why not create a list of the dozen greatest living jazz musicians? Hancock would be on it; that was a no-brainer. But who else would make the cut? Why bother with such a list? It's a good way to generate conversation and debate, ...
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Steve Albini and Damon Albarn on Art, Business and the Internet
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Two artists that can always be counted on to say something interesting recently held forth on tech, the internet and the art and business of music in separate interviews. Steve Albini takes a strong and surprisingly positive stance with little room for discussion. Damon Albarn reveals more ambivalence about tech and its effects on our lives. Both provide interesting takes on a world in which musicians have even more to sort out than ever. The following quotes come from two ...
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Vinyl is Not Dead (Never Has Been)
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RJ on Jazz by R.J. DeLuke
Blue Note Records gives vinyl a boost, releasing several classic albums for the Turntable Despite the origin of the CD roughly three decades ago and the more recent digital revolution, the old fashioned “record album," spinning at a rate of 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, never went out off style. Some companies have produced them all along. Others have simply maintained and revered the vinyl of old. With the right equipment — high-end turntable and proper receiver an speakers — ...
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