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LMFAO, The Band Sues LMFAO, The Beer
Legal action is in the house tonight. As the massive growth of the craft brewing industry continues, so too has the number of trademark disputes related to beer names. The latest involves the pop duo LMFAO's fear that Pigeon Hill Brewing Co.'s LMFAO Stout could potentially be confused with the band. By Timothy Geigner on TechDirt ...
Why Aren’t More Musicians Using Twitch?
Twitch, a service which allows users to live stream their video game playing to fans, remains a largely untapped source of potential revenue for gamer musicians, with the exception of some early adopters like Deadmau5 and Imagine Dragons. Guest Post by Cortney Harding on Medium A few years ago, I was hanging out with the head ...
Universal Music Cuts Deal With Soundcloud, Reported Equity Stake Could Hurt Artists
Soundcloud went on a takedown spree last week, angering some users. Now we may know why. After months of sometimes contentious negotiations, the audio hosting site is reportedly finalizing a deal with the world's biggest music group, Universal. Soundcloud is in the final stages of a licensing deal with the Universal Music Group, sources tell MBW. ...
The Outdoor Music Festival Boom
Are music festivals too popular for their own good? While the recorded music industry remains tumultuous, the popularity of outdoor music festivals only continues to grow, to the point where finding enough big name artists to act as headliners has become a challenge. Guest Post by Zoe Mitchell on the Berklee College of Music - Music Business Journal ...
Chet Baker: The Final Days
In keeping with tradition, I'm ending the week with a video—a Dutch documentary on Chet Baker's final days in Amsterdam directed by Willem Ouwerkerk. While the film doesn't have the drama or humidity of Bruce Weber's Let's Get Lost (1988), it's a fascinating and highly informative companion piece that is rich in poetry and blues. Baker ...
The Incompatibility Problem With Streaming Services
With Apple Music and Tidal nipping at Spotify's heels, the streaming world has become a competitive one, and as artists start to release content exclusives on only one service, listeners may start to find their online listening experience fragmented. Guest Post by Faza on The Cynical Musician The streaming landscape has changed quite a bit since ...
Pandora's Tim Westergren: Bringing Music Into The Light
Although some claim that now is the best time in history to be a musician, many artists have great difficulty in accessing information regarding the rights and usage of their music. That can be detrimental, not only to their career, but it also makes life difficult for anyone wishing to use their music. Pandora co-founder Tim ...
Cuneiform Records Launches The Music Outpost - A Sister Company Devoted To Licensing Music On The Sonic Frontier
Re-Imagining Music in the 21st Century starts on August 17, 2015 An Existential QUESTION: How does a 31-year old record label that specializes in avant-garde, non-mainstream music and has released over 400 albums of high-quality music to date, survive and thrive in the 21st century digital age, an era in which all music—whether popular or avant-garde—has ...
The Beatles at Shea: 1965
Fifty years ago on Aug. 15, 1965, the Beatles performed at New York's Shea Stadium. The Mets were in Houston playing the Astros that weekend, and the Fab Four appeared before a full house—55,600 fans, mostly screaming teenage girls. In today's Wall Street Journal (go here), I write about the concert—not about how the music was ...
Fair Music Transparency Report [Followup]
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In a followup to an earlier post, this article explores how, in spite of living in an age where music is more accessible than ever before, the commercial end of the business has a long way to go as far as getting artists the money they deserve. Guest Post by Allen Bargfrede on Rethink Music This should ...
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