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Is Music Capable Of Healing Our National Divisions?
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As more artists enter the political fray, often hard-lining one side or the other, it's important to remember music's incredible ability to also bridge division and bring people and communities together. By Michael Alan Anderson. This first appeared in The Washington Post On Friday, Taylor Swift, formerly reticent about entering the political fray, released a new song, “You Need to Calm Down,” that is probably her most explicitly political work. This comes on the heels of her recent advocacy for ...
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Universal Music Vault Fire Story Could Alter Company’s Valuation
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Recently a new story from the New York Times revealed that a major fire in one of Universal Studios vaults had caused the company to lose more than 100,000 of its master tapes, and as a large share of the company may be headed for the auction block, questions are being raised as to how this loss might affect its overall value. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Last week a bombshell of a story from New York Times contributor Jody Rosen revealed that ...
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Wife Upload's Husband's Snoring To Spotify, Apple Music. 30,000 Streams Later...
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Fed up of her husband’s snoring, a wife who uses the name Duck Mischief turned his night time noise into an 80s movie style dramatic theme song and released it on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and other streaming services. 30,000 stream later... I got so fed up of my husband’s snoring that I turned It Into an 80s movie style dramatic theme song and released It on every possible music platform worldwide. I made him this certificate when it passed ...
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6 Things You Must Ask Your Automated Content Recognition (ACR) Vendor
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Automated Content Recognition, or ACR, has become an integral part of the consumption of music and video as we experience them today. As more platforms publish user generated content, effectively monitoring use of copyrighted material has become increasingly difficult. So, how does one choose an ACR vendor that can be relied on? Guest post by Audible Magic VP of Product Development and Marketing, Jay Friedman Automated Content Recognition (ACR) is essential to music and video consumption as we know it ...
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Sofar Sounds Raises Huge Amount Of Money, But Artists Don’t See Much Of It
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Sofar Sounds, a service which specializes in setting up artists with shows, particular house concerts, has had a pretty successful financial track record, putting on over 600 shows a month and bringing in an impressive amount of revenue- unfortunately, not much of that money seems to be ending up in the pockets of the actual musicians. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 What if you played a gig and lot of people showed up, paid good money to ...
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Measuring Music’s Timelessness: A Tricky Business
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Whether expressed or not, a latent goal of most musicians is to create music that endures, and hopefully has life beyond its creator. But just how does one measure music's timelessness? Here Patrick McGuire explore the complexities in defining music's longevity. Guest post by Patrick McGuire from the TuneCore Blog If you make music for a living or even just as a hobby, you might not know it, but a goal tucked deep in your mind is to create work ...
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Dublin Vinyl Adds Direct-To-Fan Service For Artists, Labels
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Record pressing plant Dublin Vinyl has launched a direct-to-fan service for independent labels and artists. Dublin Vinyl now offers vinyl manufacturing right through to fulfillment, has begun accepting orders directly from artist or label’s e-commerce sites including Bandcamp, Shopify, Woocommerce and Big Cartel, and shipping them directly EU based fans. Commenting on the news, Dublin Vinyl Managing Director, Hugh Scully said: “We’re always looking for new ways to help our clients and make the vinyl process as easy and cost-effective ...
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Why Apple Just Killed Off iTunes [Mark Mulligan]
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Yesterday, Apple announced the end of iTunes on the Mac and its replacement with three separate apps for music, podcasts and TV. The reason given was feature bloat which slows performance. But top analyst Mark Mulligan says that its really part of “the great unbundling" which has been going on across other digital services for years. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA from his Music Industry blog Apple has announced that it is closing iTunes and replacing it with three new ...
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