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It's hard to spot a cultural shift. The start of one movement and the end of another isn't easy to identify because most people don't care much for change and prefer that the world they know remain constant. It's a comfort thing mixed with denial, and such feelings grow stronger as we age. Besides, change never ...
Aram Sinnreich: "Criminalizing File-Sharing Is... It's Literally Pathological; It's Insane."
Aram Sinnreich, a professor at Rutgers University and author of the book Mashed Up, gave this speech at NYU in early December. It starts off a little slow, but it picks up speed as he breaks into music industry analysis. If you're looking for the quote that I pulled from the talk, you'll have to buffer ...
MySpace Eyes Massive Layoffs as News Corp Looks For a Buyer
MySpace is considering massive layoffs that could cut as much as 50% of the struggling social network's 1100 person workforce according to a several sources. Parent company News Corp has been pushing MySpace to make this cuts for months even as it looks for ways to dump the division unless a miracle turnaround materializes. Almost all ...
The Basics of Remixing, Part Four: Show Me the Money...Or Not!
Welcome to the latest installment of Production Tips, our new monthly feature offering, well, production tips, hosted by Simon Langford. Last time we looked at ways in which you can get remix parts (most often vocal stems or a capellas) in order to start building your own showreel. This would then enable you to approach labels ...
The "Extremely Destructive Belief" That Artists Shouldn't Be Compensated...
The creative process takes hours, days, even years to complete. So why does the public feel that artists shouldn't be paid for their art? Earlier Monday morning, SoundExchange executive director John Simson officially announced his departure, but not without addressing that critical issue. Simson has been credited with growing SoundExchange from its inception, current accounting and ...
Ariel Hyatt: 7 Things I Hope for the New Music Industry in 2011
Happy New Year everyone! I'm raising my glass to MORE! 1. More Support For Each Other. It takes a team to launch any effort, whether it's releasing an album, getting a song licensed or just getting more fans and followers. I see all too often artists going for it all alone without any help and support, ...
STLJN 2010 Year in Review
On this final day of 2010, let's take a look back at some of the most newsworthy, noteworthy, popular and/or interesting items posted here on St. Louis Jazz Notes over the past 12 months: January 2010More filings in KFUO saleThe Bad Plus' Reid Anderson interviewed for “A to Z"Emmis launches 96.3 HD-3 with smooth jazz formatConcert ...
How to Avoid Failure in Your Social-Media Campaign
50% of social-media campaigns will fail. That prediction comes from Gartner. From the perspective of interactive marketer Adam Kmiec, “Social media has become a self-propelled hype factory." Every day another new social platform is released. These bright, shiny objects are chased. The Kool-Aid gets drunk. Then, a day later, the next big thing comes along. It ...
Bandcamp Partners with Songkick
Rather than create yet another place that artists have to post their live performance listings, music sales and marketing platform Bandcamp has partnered with Songkick. Songkick already collects shows data from ticket vendors and venues globally, and provides that data to Bandcamp (as well as YouTube, HypeMachine, Yahoo, and others). and they appear automatically on the ...
Promoters Promise Cheaper Tickets in 2011
PROMOTERS TO SELL MORE MERCHANDISE TO MAKE UP FOR LOST REVENUE Pollstar is reporting that concert promoters are planning to make shows more affordable in 2011, after high ticket prices caused low attendance throughout the past year. Promoters say they will push the sale of t-shirts and other merchandise to make up for the lost revenue. ...
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