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In Another Napster Moment, Industry Stalls as Consumers Embrace Music Streams
It appears that the recorded music industry may be preparing to shoot itself in the foot yet again. Even as record labels, publishers and pundits debate the pros and cons of music streaming, the consumer has already decided. The popularity of streaming in France, Scandinavia and elsewhere is clear, and the music industry is fond of ...
How Garth Brooks Harms Music Incomes of Others
The Copyright Alliance pointed me to a letter that musician Monisa Angell wrote the Obama Administration. If you want to see the arguments in the music industry painted in black and white. Her note is certainly the black. She raises the question, “Can we afford to have a country where the creator has no value?" Well, ...
Indentify Songs and Collect Them Instantly with Limili
Just when you thought your music discovery efforts were optimized to their full potential, Limili takes them one-step further. Remember that time you heard a song playing and wanted to know what it was, but hadn't the slightest clue? Well, companies like Shazam and Soundhound solved that problem. Limili is similar in concept to those services, ...
Warner Music Group Plannning $750m EMI Bid
Terra Firma's Guy Hands and EMI CEO Roger Faxon claim they have no intention of selling EMI. But its doubtful that their largest lender Citigroup agrees, and since loosing his lawsuit woth the bank, Hands may have no choice. Eager, as he has in the past to take advantage of EMI's struggles is Edgar Bronfman Jr's ...
What is Indie? An Unsigned Artist, Plain and Simple.
Recently, I spoke with Dave Cool, who is director and producer of the documentary film “What is INDIE? A look into the World of Independent Musicians." In it, he chronicles the experience of being an indie artist in the music industry and strives to define and challenge the term “indie" itself. In part one of this ...
Jazz Guitarist John McLaughlin and Fourth Dimension at Boston's House of Blues on November 16
Legendary jazz guitarist John McLaughlin is performing with the 4th Dimension at the House of Blues in Boston on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.). Tickets to the show are $29.50 to $39.50 and can be ordered online. Opening the show for McLaughin is the Jimmy Herring Band. Founder of ...
Bruce Springsteen: The Promise: The Lost Sessions (2010)
By Mark Saleski To call this group of songs “The Lost Sessions" is to put a slightly misleading spin on things. We all know the story, the one of the huge volume of music that Bruce wrote post-Born To Run with some songs ending up on Darkness On The Edge Of Town, some on The River, ...
Bruce Springsteen: The Promise: Darkness on the Edge of Town Remastered (1978)
By Mark Saleski This world of digital sound can be quite tricky. The original line about CDs was that they would provide “perfect sound forever." Yeah, sure. In their haste to get product to market, the early mastering jobs produced less than stellar results. In the intervening years, we've learned a lot about this process, although ...
From the Stacks: Pico's 2010 Stacks, Volume 4
By Pico Here's another half dozen batch of jazz wholesomeness brought to us by both emerging and established artists, from the mainstream to the insane-stream. Half of these are pianoless trios but with entirely different lead instruments, which seems to be a trend among the more adventurous musicians, and these guys can flat out cut it. ...
What's the Best Time to Release Your Album?
[This guest post was written by Jem Bahaijoub, the founder of Imagine PR, a music marketing and PR agency based in Washington, D.C.] All too often, musicians rush their new album's or EP's release without considering what the best time-frame for that release may be. Just because your album is done doesn't mean you have to ...
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