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Will Budget Cuts Hurt Jazz Education's Swing in the USA?
by Joan Gaylord
Though economic indicators suggest we are slowly emerging from the Great Recession here in the United States, repercussions could echo through the jazz world for a generation. The past five or so years of extreme cuts to public school budgets--especially the arts programs-- could mean a dearth of well-trained, young musicians.“I am seeing students ...
Prediction: Major Label Will Aquire Diy Distributor
By Frank Woodworth (@GlacialConcepts), Director of Business Development at Thrillcall, a concert discovery and ticketing platform for web and mobile applications. A major label is going to buy a DIY distributor, such as TuneCore or CD Baby. This is the next logical step in the roll up of distributors. In the past five years the independent distributors have ...
Music Leads the Way in Return to Analog
A seemingly inevitable cultural embrace of analog, or what we used to call “real world" products and experiences, is underway and the music industry is very much in the forefront with indie record stores, vinyl, merch and live shows. But to hear a rep from Google speak the music industry is fetishizing the past and vinyl ...
The Early Beginnings of Direct-to-Fan: How Grateful Dead and Phish Made It Happen
By Virginie Berger (@virberg), founder and general manager of the creative and development agency DBTH. To cut to the chase and get at the heart of the matter, the biggest apparent challenge that I can identify for direct-to-fan is that the music industry is broken and no one has yet discovered a practical model that will allow the typical ...
Ignore the Labels if You Want to Get Signed
Ethan Schiff is an artist manager. He's on Twitter @ethanschiff and blogs on creative music entrepreneurship at www.SchiffBlog.com. Although the music industry is evolving, it is still hard for artists to get out of the “pick me" mindset, which has been drilled into bands' heads through a combination of the traditional record business model and endless ...
Prediction: Apple, Google Finally Launching Subscription Services Will Be a Game-Changer
By David Dufresne (@DavidDufresne), CEO of Bandzoogle, a website builder and marketing platform for independent music artists. I think when Apple and Google finally launch subscription music services (or partner up with an existing one), and bundle them with each iOS and Android device sold, this will be a huge game-changer. It will definitely be the tipping point towards ...
Do We Expect Too Much from Music Listeners?
By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. I often wonder if the music industry expects too much of music listeners. This might seem like an odd concern, considering that an equal portion of label executives seem to expect nothing but music piracy and concert going from today's listener. But hear me ...
ASCAP Expo: The Hot Topic is the Future
By Geoff Nudelman of Telos Studios. For the songwriters, composers, and producers in attendance, the Expo's second day took a bigger focus on the future of the business from a variety of perspectives. Ken Jordan of The Crystal Method and RJD2 opened the day with a very technical conversation about how the quality of music has ...
The Times Are Changing for Artist Investors
By Matt Urmy, CEO of Artist Growth. When a young person announces that they have decided to pursue a career as an artist or entertainer, probably the most common response they get is something along the lines of, “Good luck with that." Despite this belief that trying to make a living as an artist is a ...
Rhapsody Offers Sage Advice to Rival Upstarts
By Jon Maples of Rhapsody for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. One of the wonderful and humbling aspects of being in the streaming music business for over 10 years is that we've seen lots of strategies and ideas over time. Trust me, Rhapsody does not like to be considered the old man who yells ...
