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MTT: A Fragmented Music Community
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Dante Cullari posts about how music is spread out all over the Internet. The fragmented nature of the Internet has produced hundreds of music websites. Artists can benefit from eliminating several different websites and focusing on one website for their music. By using one website, fans will be able to access your music easier and potential advertisers can get an accurate number of views, fan numbers, etc. According to Dante, the band, Temple Scene, can use their high number of ...
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10 Truths About the Modern Recording Industry
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(UPDATED) Fellow music industry journalist and net friend Jason Feinberg published a post yesterday on MediaShift where he chronicled the ten things that he believes to be true about the modern music business. Not to be left out of the fun, I decided to form my own list of truths. Over the course of the last two years in my post of writing for Hypebot, I've learned a thing or two, have written a number of essays, and have had ...
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Needle Park: Mad Men and JLP
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Jazz Loft Project by Sam Stephenson
There are many ways in which the TV show Mad Men overlaps with our decade-plus of research on the Jazz Loft Project. This past Sunday night Midge, Don Draper's Village girlfriend from the first season, reappeared as a Village heroin junkie with a junkie “husband" (most junkie couples weren't legally married) willing to prostitute Midge for cash (photo above). Yesterday on Slate's weekly discussion of Mad Men Julia Turner mentioned that Alexandra Dufour had tipped them on LIFE magazine's long ...
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T Bone Burnett Responds: "Musicians Deserve Better. the Audience Deserves Better."
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Yesterday, T Bone Burnett was stuck on a plane for five hours and took a moment to respond to just about every single Hypebot reader that mocked him for the somewhat shocking advice that he offered to musicians at the FMC Policy Summit. If you don't recall, he basically said that the best counsel he could offer an up-and-coming artist in today's climate is to, “Stay completely away from the Internet." Don't bother uploading your music to MySpace, because the ...
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Google Willing to Help Record Labels Combat Music Piracy, but It'll Cost Them
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If the record labels want Google to help them find links to infringing content; it'll cost them. As much as $5 per thousand queries, say new reports. It costs money to provide services to aid the labels in their 'war on piracy' and Google plans to recoup every penny. After all, they have operating costs too. But, to be a viable solution to the labels, this service would have to not end up costing them several million dollars a year, ...
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Nobel Peace Prize nominated jazz artist and actress Cynthia Basinet petitions the United Nations
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Cynthia "c." Basinet
New York —Nobel nominated jazz artist and actress Cynthia Basinet petitions the United Nations Sixty-fifth General Assembly Fourth Committee on behalf of issues facing the Western Sahara. Ms. Basinet, said “the limits of Morocco's record were apparent in its ban on demonstrations. She suggested that Morocco's judges should curb immunity on police and continue positive steps by ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and take very seriously the ...
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MTT: Is Your Music Lost in Translation?
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In his recent post, Max Willens explores the difficulty of translating and bringing ideas into the real world. He references a New York Times editorial, Found in Translation, which describes the challenge of transforming an idea into a novel. Similarly, artists struggle with how satisfied they are with their work. Max brings up some interesting questions about how initial ideas change when artists collaborate with engineers to clean up tracks, mix, etc. “On the one hand, creators are blessed ...
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T Bone Burnett: New Artists Should "Stay Completely Away from the Internet."
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T Bone Burnett had some choice words to give up-and-coming artists at the FMC Policy Summit last week: “Stay completely away from the internet." It's a rather provocative statement. The reason he gives is that once an artist joins the legions of bands on MySpace they've already lost. That by uploading their music to the web an artist instantly devalues their work and throws it on top of the growing and excessive pile of music. At his best, he also ...
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