Results for "Music Industry"

The Music Consumer in the Modern World

August 8, 2010

This post is by cultural critic and essayist Eric Casero. We are all well aware by this point in time that the music industry is undergoing a process of massive change.  As popular music continues to evolve and change as a form (or series of forms), technological evolution continues to alter the ways in which ...

WMG Reports Wider Losses on Declining Revenue

August 8, 2010

Blaming a weak release schedule, Warner Music Group reported a widening loss of 16% in Q3 compared to the prior year quarter on total revenue of $652 million. This is the six consecutive quarterly decline for the major label group, but beat many analysts expectations. Other highlights of this morning's report: Digital revenue was $179 million, 27% of total revenue ...

RedAntenna Shares Listening Data with Gigswiz

August 8, 2010

Direct-to-fan marketing service RedAntenna is now collaborating with GigsWiz, a developer of analytics tools for the live music industry, to share data related to key decision making metrics. That way, together, they will be able to develop a better overview of local demand for music industry professionals. RedAntenna will gather and share listening data with GigsWiz. ...

The Paradox of Music: Why More is Less

August 8, 2010

May 12th. That's the day that I published my first thoughts on how choice theory and the ideas of Psychologist Barry Schwartz could be applied to the current state of digital music. Nearly four months later, I'm proud to say that I followed my curiosity to it's end and was able to write three essays on ...

Vinyl Revival: Reissues from Blue Note's Heyday

August 8, 2010

THERE are two kinds of obsessive record collectors: those who buy original pressings of rare old LPs because they're rare and old, and those who buy them because they sound good. In the jazz world one record label has attained near-mystical status among the antiquarians and the audiophiles: Blue Note, especially the albums released in its ...

Keeping Jazz in the Family

August 8, 2010

Here is another great discussion between KPLU's Nick Morrison and Kirsten Kendrick. Below is video and a transcript of the interview. To hear the audio from the interview, click here. If you love jazz, then you know it's often a family affair. Here's one example: the Heath Brothers Quartet performed this weekend at Jazz Port Townsend, ...

Music Ally: Digital Music Stats for July 2010

August 4, 2010

2012 (Or the Year We Finally Took Music Back)

August 4, 2010

This guest post is by Wesley Verhoeve (@wesleyverhoeve); he is an artist manager, producer, curator, and the founder of Family Records.   Man, I remember what the music industry was like in 2010. It was still recovering from 1-2 punch of the Great Fraud of the 1990's and the Digital Disaster of the 2000's, but some light ...

Jazz has a new home in NYC!

August 7, 2010

Bossa Nova Music Productions, the company that has successfully presented over 200 jazz concerts at numerous Whole Foods Market locations, is now starting a brand new series at Food Emporium—Bridge Market in NYC. The series will be on every Thursday starting August 12th from 7:30pm to 9:30pm. These Bossa Nova Music Productions' events are free to ...

Blue Note Records Signs Ravi Coltrane

August 5, 2010

EMI's Blue Note Records is proud to announce the signing of saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Ravi Coltrane. Coltrane will be entering the studio in December to record his debut as a leader for the label, which is due to be released in Spring 2011. Coltrane has previously recorded for the label as a member of The ...