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Standing Next to the Grooveshark Sales Funnel
Look. You can scratch, claw, scream, and bitch about Grooveshark and services like it all you want, but fans don't care. I'm not saying its morally correct, but the average fan doesn't care if artists are getting paid for streams. Fans don't care if the labels make money off Grooveshark. Most of all, fans don't care ...
Best of 2010: The Most Interesting and Innovative Music Start-Ups
This post was written by Chris Bracco, and originally appeared on his blog, Tight Mix. You can follow Chris on Twitter or subscribe to his . The end of the year is approaching rapidly, and a lot has happened in the music industry over the past twelve months! There have been many incredible albums released this ...
Video: Real-Time Music Criticism on Youtube
HowToListenToMusic provides a glimpse into how real-time music criticism might work. This critic has taken to PowerPoint like slides that analyze the song while we listen. It was enough to make me listen to Ke$ha's “Your Love Is My Drug" against my will, asI grew curious as to what they'll say. The reviewer is semi-serious, with ...
Citigroup Likely to Take Control of EMI by Christmas
The official line is that they are still weighing options, but Guy Hands has reportedly been telling Terra Firma investors that they could loose control of EMI to lender Citigroup before the end of the year. His statements come a few weeks after he lost a last ditch lawsuit against CitiGroup claiming fraud and just days ...
Papa Roach Bashes Geffen/Interscope in New Single, Says Execs at Old Label Should "Burn"
There's no shortage of songs where artists express their utter despisement for the music industry. In their latest single “Burn," Papa Roach bashes their former record label Geffen/Interscope for allegedly being “two-faced." In a recent interview with Rockaaa.com, lead singer Jacoby Shaddix said, “There's a lot of two-faced shit in this business. Geffen/Interscope pissed me off—it ...
The Music Industry's Biggest Blunts, 2000-2010...
Why do we play this game? It seems that in times of digital disruption, the music industry has had this strange tendency to cling to potential saviors, almost all of which disappoint. The major labels are masters at this, though this goes far beyond the Big Four. And, it makes you wonder whether the same blue-sky, ...
Music is Now a "Public Good" Like Street Lighting.
How do you punish someone that doesn't believe what they're doing is wrong? Better yet, how do you tell someone that file sharing is immortal when they don't think that it should be illegal in the first place? These are the questions that Joe Cox, an economist from the University of Portsmouth Business School, found himself ...
Facebook Exec Says: "We Are in the Music Space"
(UPDATED) When asked if Facebook would use it's social platform to reinvent the music industry like Zynga changed gaming, Ethan Beard, the Director of the Facebook Developer platform, replied “ We are in the music space." Beard was referring to Connect and the ability for outside music companies to tap into Facebook's social network, and as ...
MidemNet Lab Names Top Digital Music Sartups
MidemNet Lab has announced its 2011 class of top digital music start-ups. For this 2nd edition, the companies with the strongest potential in mobile apps, B2B and B2C music services were chosen by UK consulting firm Music Ally to take part in a showcase during MIDEM January 22-26 in Cannes. Here are the finalists: Mobile applications: ...
A CD Label That Plays to Sounds of Chicago
When the pianist Bradley Parker released his first LP in 1979, he went to the Chicago Tattooing and Piercing Company parlor on Belmont Avenue and had the album title, “Latin Black," inked across his left forearm. This was novel among artists in the '80s, when tattoos belonged primarily to sailors and biker gangs. Mr. Parker—also known ...
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