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What Happens when Everyone's a Music Maker?
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HypeBot
Are we moving from an era of media consumption to one where were are all creators? Blogs enable us all to be writers. Cameras on mobile phones have turned us into photo journalists. Now new apps are bringing music creation to the masses. Dave Hayes explored this phenomenon and predicted an interesting future during his recent presentation at TedxCardiff.
UPDATE: I had some trouble with the code (Sorry to those that it effected yesterday.), so go check it ...
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Too Much Kind of Blue? The Case for Giving Overexposed Masterworks a Rest
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Miles Davis Online
*Absolutely worth a read this holiday weekend. Hope everyone is doing well!
Richard Williams recently wrote a book called The Blue Moment: Miles Davis Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music. I haven't yet read Mr. Williams study of the great jazz trumpeters best-known album, and to be perfectly honest, I doubt I'm going to do so. Why? Because this is, amazingly enough, the third book about Kind of Blue to be published in the past decade. It ...
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One Person's "Modern"
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Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
When I was in graduate school, we knew that “modernism" began around the First World War; we are now in post-modernism," although the name makes me itchy, especially when it's collapsed into pomo."
I feel a kinship to “modernism" as practiced by Woolf, Joyce, Kandinsky, Stravinsky, and so on. Looking at the world through rose-colored glasses that are a little askew, intentionally. Breaking things up to see what nifty shapes they might take. Shoring those fragments against our ruins.
In ...
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Amazon and Walmart Tie for #2 U.S. Music Retailer
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HypeBot
iTunes Still #1 As Digital Grows
iTunes continued to be the top retailer of music with 28% of all music purchased by U.S. , up 4% since Q1 2009 according to researcher NPD. Amazon gained 3% to tie Walmart's shrinking music department for second position at 12%
Sales of digital tracks and albums accounted for 40% overall music sales in the first quarter of 2010, up 5% from Q1 2009.*
iTunes Flat For Last 4 Quarters
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Will MySpace Music Stay Free? It's up to the Labels
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HypeBot
At yesterday's TechCrunch Disrupt conference, MySpace co-presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones were interviewed about the future of the struggling social networker.
On falling numbers -“We have 120 million unique visitors worldwide. US numbers have been fairly flat. Page views are down... substantially by design. MySpace used to have processes that took 10 page views that should have taken 1."
How important is music? “It's incredibly important. The pedigree of MySpace is around musicians. Free streaming access from record ...
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A Record Collection of Links
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HypeBot
Collecting In The Age Of Streaming Music The guest essay comes from Robbert van Ooijen, a graduating master student New Media & Digital Culture at the Dutch University of Utrecht. It's based on a research paper he wrote at the wonderful Dutch start-up Twones and asks what remains of the intimate relationship between collector and collection in the age of streaming music. van Ooijen also blogs @ HaveYouHeard.It.
The world is about to embrace streaming ...
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Will.i.am on Rave Culture
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Michael Ricci
“The underground is bigger than the surface. That's what people don't understand." Black Eyed Peas co-founder and producer will.i.am discussed his experiences discovering the first-wave rave scene in the early 1990s. In fact, he and Electric Daisy Carnival founder Pasquale Rotella went to high school together (Palisades Charter High School), and attended the same early raves and club nights (the most popular being Club What?). Here's an edited transcript of the conversation. Will was on the phone in Europe while ...
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Musicians Differ in Responses to Arizona's New Immigration Law
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Michael Ricci
For the singer Larry Hernandez, the 2010 Billboard Latin Music Awards should have been a moment of pure celebration.
But when it came time for Mr. Hernandez to accept his award as new artist of the year, he got drawn into politics, prefacing his remarks with a condemnation of the tough new immigration law that his home state of Arizona had just adopted.
It is deplorable that they are discriminating against us just for the simple fact of looking Latino, ...
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