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Stereotypes: A Little App with Big Plans
Guest post by Daniel Turner (@dantrnr) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. While the ideological tug-of-war trudges on between hardline anti-piracy crusaders and digital rights freedom fighters, music tech innovators are focused on the future. This dynamic was on sharp display during the “Streaming Music Business" panel at the recently held California Lawyers for the Arts ...
Why Wait For Google's Youtube Music Service? Stream It Free Now!
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Google and YouTube are working on at least one subscription music service to complement YouTube (free music videos) and Google Music (free music locker and download store). Our theory is that this is because some label(s) are pressuring Google into the music subscription space by threatening to withhold their music ...
Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy Exits, Stock up 20%
Wall Street reacted positively to news that Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy is exiting after 10 years at the helm. Pandora also announced strong quarterly earnings of $125 million, improving ad sales, and a strong forecast for the next. The company lost $14.6 million last quarter, but the stock still jumped almost 20% in after hours trading. ...
SXSW Survival Guide 2013
By Beth Martinez (@dangervillage) of Danger Village, a music publicity firm. In four days, I'll be leaving Los Angeles to attend my eighth South by Southwest Music Festival. Having been attending festivals for over ten years now, I've developed a few methods for surviving the madness that comes with integrating into a crowd of thousands of ...
Musicians Need to Rethink Their Struggle with Piracy
Tyler Hayes (@thealbumproject). Talking about music piracy has become an exercise in self deprecation, an emotional argument that never seems to end. I understand that music piracy was a real issue, it hurt a lot of people, and it still exists, but we're now at the point where it's been talked to death, and then some. ...
Ending Radio's Free Ride
By David Macias, cofounder of Thirty Tigers. He's exploring this topic further at SXSW on the panel Still Hazy After All These Years: Performance Royalties and Terrestrial Radio. The Robinson-Patman Act was a law passed in 1936 in order to strengthen anti-trust law. It forbids one entity from offering the same good or service to two different ...
Music Scenes: The Benefit of Focusing at the Local Level
Guest post by Richard Pulvino (@rpulvino) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. From the late 90's to early 2000's, I immersed myself in the local hardcore music scene in Rochester, NY. I wasn't in any of the bands, but attended shows regularly and would go support friends of mine who were in bands that ...
Bands: Stop Using Flash on Your Website
Flash was once a hugely popular platform used to create streaming audio and video players, animations, and other multimedia content for websites. Now, its popularity is waning, as it struggles for relevance in a more mobile world. When reviewing websites for Bandzoogle at music conferences, I still see many artists using Flash widgets for important content ...
The Game of Music Discovery
Guest post by Marc Ruxin (@ruxputin) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. The wonderful thing about music is that there will always be another new band to love, and another song to rip you from reality and throw you into a more ethereal realm. With exponentially more music being made today than there was ...
Countering the Commoditization of Music by Giving Credit and Creating Value
By Musician and Marketing Consultant Solveig Whittle (@shadesofsolveig). Ubiquity drives the commoditization of music and other intellectual property, lowering value and decreasing discovery. Giving credit, or attribution, counteracts this effect and creates value. I read two posts this week which got me thinking about how these two ideas related in the worlds of both social media ...
