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One Person's "Modern"
When I was in graduate school, we knew that “modernism" began around the First World War; we are now in post-modernism," although the name makes me itchy, especially when it's collapsed into pomo." I feel a kinship to “modernism" as practiced by Woolf, Joyce, Kandinsky, Stravinsky, and so on. Looking at the world through rose-colored glasses ...
Amazon and Walmart Tie for #2 U.S. Music Retailer
iTunes Still #1 As Digital Grows iTunes continued to be the top retailer of music with 28% of all music purchased by U.S. , up 4% since Q1 2009 according to researcher NPD. Amazon gained 3% to tie Walmart's shrinking music department for second position at 12% Sales of digital tracks and albums accounted for 40% ...
Will MySpace Music Stay Free? It's up to the Labels
At yesterday's TechCrunch Disrupt conference, MySpace co-presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones were interviewed about the future of the struggling social networker. On falling numbers -“We have 120 million unique visitors worldwide. US numbers have been fairly flat. Page views are down... substantially by design. MySpace used to have processes that took 10 page views ...
A Record Collection of Links
Collecting In The Age Of Streaming Music The guest essay comes from Robbert van Ooijen, a graduating master student New Media & Digital Culture at the Dutch University of Utrecht. It's based on a research paper he wrote at the wonderful Dutch start-up Twones and asks what remains of the intimate relationship ...
Will.i.am on Rave Culture
“The underground is bigger than the surface. That's what people don't understand." Black Eyed Peas co-founder and producer will.i.am discussed his experiences discovering the first-wave rave scene in the early 1990s. In fact, he and Electric Daisy Carnival founder Pasquale Rotella went to high school together (Palisades Charter High School), and attended the same early raves ...
Musicians Differ in Responses to Arizona's New Immigration Law
For the singer Larry Hernandez, the 2010 Billboard Latin Music Awards should have been a moment of pure celebration. But when it came time for Mr. Hernandez to accept his award as new artist of the year, he got drawn into politics, prefacing his remarks with a condemnation of the tough new immigration law that his ...
Musicians and Health Insurance: Taking the Pulse
A new Future Of Music Coalition study “Taking the Pulse“ found that, of the 1,451 musicians who responded, 33% said they do not have health insurance. This is nearly twice the national average of 17% uninsured, as estimated by the Kaiser Family Foundation. (pdf of full report here.) With that as a backdrop, the ...
Phonograph Blues: Robert Johnson Mastered at Wrong Speed?
Robert Johnson's “The Complete Recordings," issued in 1990 by Columbia/Legacy, is one of the most popular blues collections ever released, and is undoubtedly the biggest- selling album ever by a pre-World War II bluesman. The compilation of works by the late, legendary singer-guitarist -- originally released in two LP volumes, in 1961 and 1970 -- has ...
Imprisoned, Phil Spector is Credited as Producer of Wife's New CD
The collection of up-tempo pop songs apparently were recorded before he was sentenced to 19 years to life for murdering struggling actress Lana Clarkson. Music producer Phil Spector was legendary for his work with Tina Turner, the Ronettes and the Beatles. But certainly his greatest feat would seem to be the release this summer of a ...
Why an Ellen Degeneres Record Label? And Why Now? Allow Ellen to Explain
For several days and a few scant hours, the rumors swirled online and in the corridors of music industry power brokers. Which major record label would be the one to sign Greyson Chance? You know, the 12-year-old viral video sensation dubbed who set YouTube aflame with his sixth-grade talent show rendition of Lady Gaga's “Paparazzi" earlier ...
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