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Full Text of Amazon's Cloud Music Email to Labels
Amazon unleashed a storm of industry criticism recently when it launched it's music Cloud Locker and Cloud Player. Some even called it illegal. Yesterday, Amazon answered its crtics with a letter directly to the record labels. (Hypebot has detailed analysis of the letter and surrounding issues here.) Read the full text of Amazon's cloud music email ...
Jazz Stamp for USPS
By Paul Rogers One day last year the friendly voice of Howard Paine was on the phone asking me if I'd like to design a jazz stamp for the US Postal Service. Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and about a dozen others have been honored with stamps in the past, and in ...
Part 2: Resume Building
I wanted to play keyboards on Broadway, but I didn't know where to start. I did know, at least, that moving straight to New York with a liberal arts degree and 10 years experience in community theatre was a bad idea. I knew the first thing I needed to do was gain more experience and build ...
Labels Could Owe Artists More Than $2 Billion in Unpaid Royalites
This guest post by Dave Kusek, a VP at Berklee College of Music and CEO of Berkleemusic was experpted with permission from his Future Of Music blog. If you are a recording artist or a manager and have been distributing music on iTunes under a deal with one of the big record labels, pay attention. ...the ...
Take Your Time, Do It Right - Five Essential Steps to Self-Releasing a Record
Most bands put a lot into making their records. They spend tons of late nights in the studio, arguing over things like whether the snare should be louder or softer; they fuss over the creation of artwork, the selection of the packaging, the creation of the liner notes. Often, the entire process takes months. Despite limited ...
Advice: Finding and Making the Most out of a Music Industry Internship
This post is by Hypebot intern Hisham Dahud. His Twitter: @HishamDahud. There have been a few discussions circulating the web lately about unpaid internships in the music industry being worth it or not. The fact remains that the entertainment and music sectors continue to be areas where many people are willing to work for free, so companies ...
Record Industry Profits if Napster Never Hit [chart]
For over a decade, US album sales have been racing to the bottom. In the trial brief for their case against LimeWire, the record industry has presented a graph that shows how sales may have fared had Napster never occurred. It's an interesting chart to analyze. Would sales have continued to race to the top or ...
Governor Deval Patrick Declares April as Jazz Month in Massachusetts
Governor Deval Patrick has issued a proclamation declaring April 2011 to be Jazz Month in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The proclamation praises the legacy of jazz as an American art form and the contributions of Massachusetts jazz performers like Chick Corea from Chelsea, Roy Haynes from Roxbury, Phil Woods from Springfield and others. And the proclamation ...
How to Create a Killer Fan Newsletter
If there is one aspect of your online marketing toolbox that you should never, ever neglect, it's your fan newsletter. Even though social networking sites have exploded in popularity, e-mail marketing is still one of the most effective marketing channels around. Having fans' e-mail addresses (and zip codes when possible) gives you access to valuable data that ...
The Majors Really Hate the Cloud. Just Ask mSpot...
Not-so-little mSpot has had a cloud-based music service for months, yet they are likely to get eclipsed by the likes of Amazon, Google, and Apple. So goes the game, and this is one thunderstorm that could be tough to weather. But instead ofenabling licensing to sell MP3s within their cloud structure, major labels eventually denied those ...
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