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News: Opinion

Recorded Music as a Commodity and the Power of Artistic Vision

May 11, 2011

Let's just admit it: recorded music is a commodity product. The abundance of recorded music now more than satiates the (plentiful) demand, and the market of recorded music is losing differentiation. Sure, different recordings will suit different needs and wants to some extent, but that's no different from other commodities like coffee or petroleum or pharmaceuticals. So what ...

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News: Music Industry

Music Marketing with QR Codes: How to Get Started

May 11, 2011

QR codes—those strange symbols that use the cell phone to link the offline and online worlds—are are going mainstream in the U.S. for even more reasons than previously discussed on Hypebot. So, now is the time to get involved. Here are some basic resources for creating and mobilizing QR codes with an emphasis on d.i.y. music ...

News: Recording

An Introduction to the Self-Released Album

May 11, 2011

You have been working hard, playing your music and finally have a couple songs or maybe even an album. The question is: How do I sell my music or get on iTunes? On Music Think Tank, Cameron Mizell shares his thoughts on the shifting trends in music retail and gives advice on how to release your ...

News: Performance / Tour

John Kordalewski Jazz Trio at Milton Public Library on Saturday, May 14

May 11, 2011

Jazz pianist John Kordalewski, bassist John Lockwood and vocalist Diane Richardson perform at the Milton Public Library this Saturday, May 14, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. The free concert is sponsored by the Friends of the Milton Public Library. Kordalewski, a Milton resident, leads the jazz group The Makanda Project and teaches at Bunker Hill Community College. ...

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News: Opinion

Music's Secret to Competing with Free: Raise the Price

May 11, 2011

Tweet Pundits are declaring that, due to so much free music on the web, Amazon's 69-cent- a-tune program is the ultimate sign of retail music's demise. But some basic laws of marketing are being ignored within these conclusions. The solution to competing with free might be counter-intuitive: raise its wholesale price. Insanity? Let’s see. Sometimes it ...

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News: Recording

Booker T. Jones - The Road to Memphis (2011)

May 11, 2011

His name is linked forever with the town, and the sound, of Memphis. But Booker T. Jones' influence moves beyond Beale, into hip hop and today's rhythm-and-blues—something that's underscored on The Road to Memphis, co-produced by The Roots drummer/bandleader ?uestlove and out today on Anti- Records. Not that Jones, a three-time Grammy winner and Rock and ...

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News: Recording

Forgotten Series: Paul Motian - I Have the Room Above Her (2005)

May 11, 2011

By Mark Saleski You wouldn't suppose that most musicians would look favorably upon being compared to an old pile of rocks. How about an old, organized pile of rocks? This isn't some kind of clever reviewer trick. Honestly, it's just a coincidence. While giving Paul Motian's I Have The Room Above Her the first listen, I ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Transmedia Resurrection of Stick Against Stone

May 11, 2011

This summer, the surviving members of Stick Against Stone will play some gigs together for the first time in close to 30 years. In addition to these shows, a documentary about the band's history and its deceased frontman, Get It All Out, will be released. The writings and poetry of their frontman, John Creighton, has been ...

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News: Recording

William Hooker and Thomas Chapin - Crossing Points (Nobusiness, 2011)

May 11, 2011

Multi-instrumentalist Thomas Chapin was one of my guiding lights when I started getting into jazz really heavily in the 1990's. His Knitting Factory releases are all stellar, and he could play anything from swing to bop to free, but was possibly at his best when combining all genres or dispensing with the notion of genre entirely. ...

News: Technology

Skype is Now More Valuable Than the Entire US Recording Industry...

May 11, 2011

Amount Microsoft paid for Skype, 2011: $8.5 billion. US-based Recording Industry Revenues, 2010: $6.85 billion. Technology eviscerates again? Skype was originally created by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (among others), also the original brains and entrepreneurs behind Kazaa. The distributed, peer-to-peer architecture of Kazaa heavily informed the Skype architecture—in fact, the name Skype is a modification ...