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Video: Real-Time Music Criticism on Youtube
HowToListenToMusic provides a glimpse into how real-time music criticism might work. This critic has taken to PowerPoint like slides that analyze the song while we listen. It was enough to make me listen to Ke$ha's “Your Love Is My Drug" against my will, asI grew curious as to what they'll say. The reviewer is semi-serious, with ...
Grooveshark Rises in Popularity - So Now What?
Grooveshark proudly announced on their blog yesterday that they made it onto Google's annual Zeitgeist—a roundup of the most popular search terms on the web throughout the year. They made the list of the Top Ten searches in the United States. Strangely enough, as far as regional of interest goes, the United States is actually last ...
Sonicbids and Headliner.FM Collaborate, Launch App
Sonicbids and Headliner.fm have collaborated to launch a new app for artists to reach new fans. The Headliner.fm app enables artists to trade recommendations with similar groups and promote to their fanbases through artist-approved status updates on social networking sites and mobile devices. With this collaboration, Sonicbids artists will gain access to the Headliner.fm app and ...
Interview: Indie Band Survival Guide Authors PT. 1
Recently, I spoke with Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan, who are authors of The Indie Band Survival Guide: The Complete Manual for the Do-It-Yourself Musician. As well, they're lead members of the Chicago band Beatnik Turtle. In part one of this interview, Chertkow and Feehan talk about why they never quit they're day jobs once they ...
Citigroup Likely to Take Control of EMI by Christmas
The official line is that they are still weighing options, but Guy Hands has reportedly been telling Terra Firma investors that they could loose control of EMI to lender Citigroup before the end of the year. His statements come a few weeks after he lost a last ditch lawsuit against CitiGroup claiming fraud and just days ...
Papa Roach Bashes Geffen/Interscope in New Single, Says Execs at Old Label Should "Burn"
There's no shortage of songs where artists express their utter despisement for the music industry. In their latest single “Burn," Papa Roach bashes their former record label Geffen/Interscope for allegedly being “two-faced." In a recent interview with Rockaaa.com, lead singer Jacoby Shaddix said, “There's a lot of two-faced shit in this business. Geffen/Interscope pissed me off—it ...
Music is Now a "Public Good" Like Street Lighting.
How do you punish someone that doesn't believe what they're doing is wrong? Better yet, how do you tell someone that file sharing is immortal when they don't think that it should be illegal in the first place? These are the questions that Joe Cox, an economist from the University of Portsmouth Business School, found himself ...
The Great Mirage of Music Ownership
iTunes and Amazon have spent lots of money trying to convince the next generation of music buyers that owning a physical box set is the same thing as having MP3s of it on their iPod. Even after all these years, most fans are still less than persuaded. Steve Jobs will proudly tell you that an MP3 ...
Buy Your Digital Music from a Vending Machine
The future of the music industry has arrived: the MP3 vending machine. MOD Systems has released its Download2Go digital music kiosks in Quick Chek convenience stores. Shoppers can now grab a quick bite to eat and a new album while they're browsing around. With these machines, all the user has to do is tap the screen, ...
Is Music Moving from Rip and Burn to Watch and Share?
Last week Forrester analyst Mark Mulligan tweeted: “Need some help: if 'Buy & Listen' was 20th cent. music consumption, 'Rip & Burn' the 1st digital generation, what's it for Digital Natives?" The question was part of research Mulligan and his team are doing for an upcming study “Digital Natives, the Generation Music Product Strategy Forgot." Some early ...
