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Music And The Power Of Public Sector Radio
It's National Radio week and this great piece from Berklee's Music Business Journal delves into music's lengthy and ongoing relationship with public sector radio both in the US and elsewhere, and how music on public sector radio is used to influence society. Guest post by Alexander Stewart from Berklee's Music Business Journal Broadcasting, especially radio, is a ...
Pirate Bay Ordered To Pay Labels A Paltry $477,000
Despite being an early target of multiple lawsuits brought my several labels and music trade groups, torrent tracker Pirate bay is still operating and helping to enable music and media piracy worldwide. Now , 6 years after a lawsuit began, a court has ordered to Pirate bay founder to pay labels, just $477,000. A court in ...
Diggers Factory Brings Community To Indie Vinyl Pre-Sales
Diggers Factory founder Alexis Castiel takes us behind the scenes of his crowdfunding styled vinyl pre-order and production service designed to keep artists from wasting money on vinyl production. In this article he explains how the idea for the company came about and where it's headed. Guest post from Soundfly's Flypaper Diggers Factory is an online vinyl ...
Who Was Flip Nuñez?
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about singer Bev Kelly and included a track of her singing Long Ago and Far Away live in San Francisco in 1960. After her first run through the song, Bev introduced her pianist prior to his solo: “Flip Nuñez." Most readers may be unfamiliar with the pianist-singer and composer ...
John Vanore: Stolen Moments
There were only seven musicians on Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth in February 1961. But as Creed Taylor, the album's producer, told me in an interview in 2008, the extraordinary way Nelson arranged the septet enabled them to sound 10 times larger. Even more surprising is that the entire album was completed at ...
How A Full-time Solo Pianist Made A Living Via Streaming Royalties
Here Michele McLaughlin, a full time solo pianist explains how she has been able to successfully earn a living from the royalties earned through the streaming of her music. Here Chris Robley chats with her about the opportunities her music has found on streaming platforms. Guest post by Chris Robley of DIY Musician I remember as ...
Lyor Cohen Drinks The YouTube Kool-Aid: The money will come, but for now "fans not being exposed to new music is death."
When former WMG CEO Lyor Cohen joined YouTube, the music industry wondered if this often brash insider could change prevailing opinions of the video behemoth: great for promotion, but the royalties paid are far too low. Few opinions have shifted; but in a new open letter, Cohen remains both optimistic and defiant, seemingly blaming musicians and ...
This Man Is The Secret Weapon That Investors Believe Will Save SoundCloud
News came late last week that SoundCloud had been saved, for now, by an emergency $169.5 million cash infusion. Co- founder Alex Ljung would step aside to make room for new CEO Kerry Trainor. But how can the new exec turn the deeply unprofitable music streamer around? Fortunately, he has a secret weapon, Fred Davis. Over ...
Join The World's First Live Facebook Festival - A Call To Artists and Fans
In this latest post to MusicThinkTank, we look at Right Chord Music's creation of a new type of music festival, that harnesses the power of Facebook Live, inviting bands and artists from around the world to occupy their Facebook newsfeed in an innovative live music experience. Harnessing the power of Facebook Live, new music blog Right Chord ...
SoundCloud Saved By Emergency $169.5M Investment As CEO Ljung Steps Aside [OFFICIAL]
SoundCloud has closed an emergency round of funding that will allow the struggling streamer stay online, Co-founder and CEO Alex Ljung will step aside as a new leadership team takes control. SoundCloud has closed a reported $169.5 million emergency in funding that allows the struggling streamer and audio hub to stay online. Co-founder Alex Ljung will ...
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