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Rethink Music Preview: Ralph Jaccodine on the Future of Artist Management

April 22, 2011

[Editor's Note: Next week, we're going to be covering Rethink Music up in Boston. To get you in the mood, we thought we'd reach out to a couple panel moderators and get some advice/information out of them. This second and final piece is a Q&A with artist manager Ralph Jaccodine] For all the upheaval that the ...

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What Do Music Fans Want to Own, and Why?

April 21, 2011

On Music Think Tank, Chris Stoneman discusses the topic of ownership. With the changes in how fans consume music, ownership has changed as well. Chris explains three ways we desire music and how these desires affect our need to own something. Read on to see how fans want to consume music and what some companies are ...

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The Tyranny of Novelty

April 21, 2011

This guest post comes from Jeremy Schlosberg, the founder and curator of Fingertips , which has been seeking out the web's best free and legal music since 2003. A press release received yesterday afternoon informs me that Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Damian Kulash of the band OK Go, and writer Neil Gaiman (Palmer's husband) will be ...

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Rethink Music Preview: The Orchard's Richard Gottehrer on What Independent Musicians Can Expect from Record Labels

April 21, 2011

[Editor's Note: Next week, we're going to be covering Rethink Music up in Boston. To get you in the mood, we thought we'd reach out to a couple panel moderators and get some advice/information out of them. This is the first of two pieces] Richard Gottehrer knows the music business inside and out. Over the course ...

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Redigi Raises $535,000 for Used MP3 Store

April 20, 2011

Cambridge, MA based startup ReDigi has raised $535,000 from 21 investors to operate a used digital music download store according to an SEC filing. When we've written about ReDigi previously, Hypebot readers, including at least one music industry attorney, expressed healthy skepticism about the legality of selling used downloads. Despite ReDigi's detailed explanation, I remain unconvinced, ...

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QR Codes Move into Music's Mainstream

April 20, 2011

A music industry tipping point of sorts arrived for QR (quick response) codes as PepsiCo announced that, through June 26, Taco Bell customers who buy the “Mountain Dew Free Music cup" can scan a QR code on the bottom of the cup to download free music and videos. The downloads will also be available for free, ...

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The Silver Bullet for Music Business Success?

April 20, 2011

On Music Think Tank, Minh Chau has found an overarching theme that leads to music business success. Through various stories and advice from music industry events, Minh realized that the silver bullet for music business success is: collaboration with emerging/aspiring industry people. Read on for the silver bullet explanation. “The silver bullet: Collaboration with emerging/aspiring industry ...

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Forget About Legality: Amazon's Cloud is Simply Overpriced...

April 20, 2011

Have you tried Amazon's Cloud Drive yet? Well, it works perfectly. Except, it's perfectly overpriced, for a number of critical reasons. So how much do they want? After 5GB of free storage, Amazon asks you to pay. That is, $20 a year for 20GB, $50 for 50GB, $100 for 100GB, $200 for 200GB, $500 for 500GB, ...

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Eyewitness: Thumbs Carllile

April 19, 2011

Last week, JazzWax reader Uwe Zänisch in Berlin sent along a note about guitarist Kenneth “Thumbs" Carllile (1931-1987), a country picker with an superb technique. Rather than spoil the story, let me have Uwe pick it up: “Some days ago I was at YouTube and found a very interesting clip featuring an unusual guitarist in a ...

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HP is Getting into the Cloud Music Business

April 19, 2011

Hewlett Packard will join Amazon and could beat Google and Apple in getting into the cloud music business. The news comes via a power point presentation being used to sell small and medium businesses on its upcoming TouchPad tablet computer scheduled to ship early this summer. According to one slide captured by preCentral, the TouchPad will ...