Results for "Music Industry"

MOG Expands to Roku, iPhone

June 30, 2010

Music streaming service MOG has expanded its reach with the a new deal to offer access via the popular Roku tv setup box and Apple's approval of its iPhone app. For $5 -$10 a month, Roku customers can access MOG's 7.5 million songs via their TV sound system or other connected device. The iPhone app, which ...

Ingrooves Continues International Expansion

June 30, 2010

Playboy Sues Drake for Copyright Infringement

June 30, 2010

Drake has emerged as one of raps hottest acts. The rapper Drakes breakthrough single, “Best I Ever Had," which went from a mixtape to a popular EP, didn't get to be the best all on it's own, according to a copyright infringement suit filed by Playboy Enterprises. In the suit, which Playboy filed in a California ...

Tom Hess on Underrated Music Industry Contacts

June 30, 2010

As a musician, making contacts in the industry is extremely important.  Touring guitarist-turned-music-mentor Tom Hess points out that some of the most valuable contacts an artist can make come from an often overlooked group of music professionals: Concert promoters. While Hess has come up with some questionable advice in the past (hiring hot chicks to attend ...

Sharing What I've Learned - "Pay-What-You-Want" Music Consulting

June 29, 2010

I'm a big fan of sharing. I truly believe that we're more successful when we share everything openly and honestly with those around us. It's part of the reason I started this blog. It's the entire reason I gave a free Ustream seminar on Touring. And it's the reason that I've been considering offering consulting services ...

Music Producers Guild's Credit Where Credit's Due Campaign

June 29, 2010

A UK-based group called the Music Producers Guild has announced the launch of the Credit Where Credit is Due Campaign. The campaign is intended to foster support for an independent database of information about the session musicians and producers who worked on a given song: Who played bass on track seven of the new Beyonc album? ...

The Creators Project Takes Loud, Sweaty, Encouraging First Steps

June 29, 2010

On Saturday, The Creators Project, an Intel and Vice-headed initiative designed to “identify leading artists across the world who are pushing creative boundaries through technology,"  held an enormous music and art event at Milk Studios in New York. The first of four events that will take place in various cities around the world this summer, Saturday's ...

Spotify Payments to Artists Grow 8x

June 29, 2010

Reports coming from Swedish performing rights groups show that Spotify's payments to artists appear to be growing exponentially. Swedish songwriters association STIM spokesperson Susanne Bodin confirmed an “eightfold increase" in payments to its members over last year. STIM had reported that last June's payments were 500,000 kroner with the latest payment rising to 4 million kroner ...

Ascap Attacks Creative Commons, the Eff and Advocates of Free Music

June 29, 2010

"our biggest challenge ever." Last week ASCAP sent a fund raising letter to its members launching a campaign to counter the efforts of the country's most vocal advocates of copyright reform. “Many forces including Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation and technology companies with deep pockets are mobilizing to promote 'Copyleft' in order ...

Muenster-Dummel

June 29, 2010

Rifftides reader Dave Bernard sent this inquiry: What did muenster-dummel mean on the Norgran record jackets? For those born after the LP era, the terms may draw a blank. Norgran was one of two labels founded by Norman Granz (1918-2001), who created Jazz At The Philharmonic in the 1940s. His other early label was Clef. Norgran ...