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Grooveshark Inks Agreements with Merge, Ultra Records...
It's not Universal Music Group, but Grooveshark has just inked agreements with both Merge and Ultra Records. Merge counts Arcade Fire among its ranks, and the Ultra roster includes deadmau5. Both are opting into an earlier Merlin agreement, inked just months ago. “Grooveshark has been an exciting new partner for Ultra," explained Eliott Walker, senior director ...
A Jazz/Cultural Beachhead in Brooklyn: Sista's Place (Part One)
Some weeks back an invigorating, spirited Saturday evening was spent at Sista's Place, a cooperative black enterprise at 456 Nostrand Avenue (corner of Jefferson Avenue; by subway take A or C train to Nostrand Ave. stop) in Brooklyn. The occasion was an all-star band including trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah, baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett, violinist Billy Bang, pianist ...
How $10/Month Could Turn Canada's Music Industry Upside Down
The Songwriters Association of Canada (or, S.A.C.), “a friendly community of songwriters" which “advocate[s] on behalf of songwriters to protect the value of our work," has worked out a proposal that could turn the Canadian music industry on its head. According to the Montreal Gazette, S.A.C. president Eddie Schwartz is in talks with various Internet service ...
Coca-Cola: Our Next Major Label?
Lady Gaga needed Interscope to blow her up worldwide, and manager Troy Carter isn't confused about the benefits of a major label relationship. But who's gonna blow up artists tomorrow, at least to these same heights? Well, the answer may be no one, and who really cares? Music fans aren't begging for 'global success stories,' and ...
"Ad-Funded" Music? Try "Ad-Fun" Music.
Usually when we think about the ads fans will endure when Spotify launches in the U.S., we think of boring, intrusive ones. Mazda has started a new campaign wherein if listeners click on the ad, they're greeted with the chance to drift with a car at high-speeds and Parallel Park like a mad person. It just ...
Pay-What-You-Want Music Label Opens in Detroit
This Detroit music label is a great example of disruptive thinking. When thinking disruptively, the goal is to flip assumptions on their head. Case in point: Beehive Recording. All the music is free. All the recording and art services are free. Just donate what you can. The new album won't be released in three months; it will ...
NARAS: We're Listening, Steve Stoute...
So, $40,000 well spent? What started with a biting full-page ad in the New York Times has now turned into a discussion. And, Steve Stoute's open-letter strategy may even generate some change in the way the Recording Academy selects winners (maybe). Here's a statement (or some would say, non-statement) shared just hours ago by NARAS, aka ...
The Rights and Wrongs of Making Remix Records
The idea of the remix album is not new. Though they have been around since the late '70s, they only began to garner mainstream attention in the mid-'90s, and since then remix releases have been embraced as two-way marketing tools. Artists and labels alike have used them to get extra mileage out of a particular album ...
Customer Acquisition: Is It Just Too Expensive in This Space?
Sirius XM has more than 20 million subscribers, but at what cost? The company barely skirted bankruptcy in 2009, and the Sirius+XM merger happened out of necessity, not choice. Meanwhile, the company has been hemorrhaging cash since the beginning, and its current earnings are modest (when they're profitable). And this is a great service we're talking ...
Music Exec Watches Personal Music Budget Decline
Ethan Kaplan, former SVP of Emerging Technology at Warner Music Group, has published an insightful essay on his blog about the death of the music business and his shrinking personal budget for music. In it, he makes the point that the humans will die before the business of music does, as for as long as people ...
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