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Reigniting Our Love Of AM Radio
Once an integral part of the nighttime listening experience, AM radio has since fallen out of favor somewhat, as with many traditional forms of media consumption. The medium is far from dead however, and in this piece, Fred Jacobs explores a plan to rekindle our love of AM Radio. Guest post by Fred Jacobs of Jacobs ...
Google Home Smart Speaker Sales Soar, Great News For YouTube Music
Two analysis of the smart speaker market paint a somewhat different picture. But both point to two trends: smart speaker sales are soaring and Google Home smart speakers are gaining ground on Amazon. That's good news for all music streamers, particularly YouTube Music. A new Strategy Analytics survey concluded that Amazon shipped 4 million Echo speakers ...
An Expert's Tips On Music Business Networking
While networking's value as a tool for getting ahead in the music industry has long been established, how to do it effectively, and what is exactly it is are somewhat harder to define. In this piece we hear some tips from a pro on what exactly makes for good networking. Guest post by Jason Blume of ...
Grant Green: Funk in France
Blue Note Records probably owes Grant Green's family an apology. The guitarist was the finest jazz guitarist of the 1960s, topped only by Wes Montgomery. Today, virtually Green's entire discography has made it into the digital age. But it may surprise many that a good number of his albums for Blue Note weren't released during his ...
Electrifying Track: Tranein' In
From time to time, I intend to focus on a single track that I find electrifying and represents a definitive work by a significant jazz artist. The purpose of such a narrow focus is to separate one song from an artist's body of work, put it in context with the time in which it was released, ...
Memorial Day 2018
It is Memorial Day in the United States, a time for parades, picnics and family gatherings across the land. This is the perfect occasion on which to honor the US armed services by acknowledging and displaying the accomplishments of their bands dedicated to the music that is the primary stock in trade of Rifftides. We begin ...
The Reason Record Labels Hate Free Streaming Tiers
While streaming services may often be touted as the saviors of the music industry, label execs are no fans of the 'free tiers' offered by most of these platforms, arguing that the widen the music business's value gap. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 If you were to poll record label execs off-the-record on ...
5 Web Tools For Musicians To Try
In this piece Fiona Z shares five recently discovered valuable tools artists can use to improve their online experience, streamline social media usage, edit video, sign online paperwork and more! Guest post from Fiona Z Lately, I’ve been diving into summits, podcasts and I’ve also signed up to go to CD Baby’s DIY Musician Conference (let me know ...
Why Twitter Still Matters For Musicians
Although some self-promoting musicians may choose to eschew the platfrom, Chris Robley here details why the controversial social network still holds significant value for artists as promotional tool, particularly in comparison to some of the other social media platforms out there. Guest post by Chris Robley of DIY Musician Twitter lets musicians do three things they ...
How Record Labels Screwed Up The Music Industry, And How Spotify, Apple Saved Them
ALTERNATIVE TAKE: Mike Masnick explores the sordid history of how the record labels' behavior in the early days of the internet literally brought the music industry to its knees, and how these same labels have been saved by the tech industry led by Apple and Spotify. By Mike Masnick from Techdirt If you've been following how much the ...
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