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Universal Music Cuts Deal With Soundcloud, Reported Equity Stake Could Hurt Artists
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HypeBot
Soundcloud went on a takedown spree last week, angering some users. Now we may know why. After months of sometimes contentious negotiations, the audio hosting site is reportedly finalizing a deal with the world's biggest music group, Universal. Soundcloud is in the final stages of a licensing deal with the Universal Music Group, sources tell MBW. The deal would reportedly give UMG a substantial stake in Soundcloud. While details of the deal are not yet known, many in the ...
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The Outdoor Music Festival Boom
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Are music festivals too popular for their own good? While the recorded music industry remains tumultuous, the popularity of outdoor music festivals only continues to grow, to the point where finding enough big name artists to act as headliners has become a challenge. Guest Post by Zoe Mitchell on the Berklee College of Music - Music Business Journal Over 32 million people in the US attend at least one music festival a year and more often than not travel 600 miles on ...
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Pandora's Tim Westergren: Bringing Music Into The Light
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Although some claim that now is the best time in history to be a musician, many artists have great difficulty in accessing information regarding the rights and usage of their music. That can be detrimental, not only to their career, but it also makes life difficult for anyone wishing to use their music. Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren weighs in: Guest Post by Tim Westergren, co-founder of Pandora. In a recent New York Times editorial called “Open the Music Industry’s Black ...
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The Incompatibility Problem With Streaming Services
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With Apple Music and Tidal nipping at Spotify's heels, the streaming world has become a competitive one, and as artists start to release content exclusives on only one service, listeners may start to find their online listening experience fragmented. Guest Post by Faza on The Cynical Musician The streaming landscape has changed quite a bit since the beginning of the year. We’ve seen the launch of Tidal, Apple’s new service is humming along nicely and now Digital Music News reports that Spotify may be considering ...
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Chet Baker: The Final Days
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In keeping with tradition, I'm ending the week with a video—a Dutch documentary on Chet Baker's final days in Amsterdam directed by Willem Ouwerkerk. While the film doesn't have the drama or humidity of Bruce Weber's Let's Get Lost (1988), it's a fascinating and highly informative companion piece that is rich in poetry and blues. Baker died in May 1988 after falling from his Amsterdam hotel room. Here's Chet Baker: The Final Days (1990), which aired in the Netherlands in ...
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Cuneiform Records Launches The Music Outpost - A Sister Company Devoted To Licensing Music On The Sonic Frontier
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Joyce (Nalewajk) Feigenbaum
Re-Imagining Music in the 21st Century starts on August 17, 2015 An Existential QUESTION: How does a 31-year old record label that specializes in avant-garde, non-mainstream music and has released over 400 albums of high-quality music to date, survive and thrive in the 21st century digital age, an era in which all music—whether popular or avant-garde—has been devalued, and in which record stores have disappeared? How does it enable the impressive music in its back catalogue to not only live ...
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12 CD's For 1¢ Is Dead: The Original Artist Rip-Off Columbia House Files For Bankruptcy
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Remember 12 CDs or cassettes for a 1¢? Fueled by slippery clauses buried deep major label contracts, Columbia House, formed the backbone of many 70's and 80's music collections. Once billed as a vehicle for music discovery, the record “club" has filed for bankruptcy. Columbia House, the mail order music service that built a billion dollar business on the back of 'Eight CDs for a penny,' has filed for bankruptcy protection. According to the Los Angeles Times, Columbia House parent ...
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