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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 ...
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 ...
The Most Important Problem the Music Business Must Solve
By David Sherbow (@MusicBizGuy) of My Life With Music. What is the greatest problem which the new music business must solve to maintain it relevance in the future? In my humble opinion, it needs to figure out how to simply curate new music, filter it down to a small enough selection that is easily digestible and ...
For Music Discovery, Definition Often Varies
By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Over the years, the definition of music discovery has changed. For some, music discovery encapsulates the serendipitous event of finding a new song or artist, which is often wrapped with infatuation of a new crush. You can't stop talking about the ...
Eddie Layton's Springtime Touch
The smell of spring awakens the little kid in most baseball fans. Back before ballpark trons and digital audio systems, the music that pushed fans to root for the home team came from an organ. Often squirreled away in a booth high above in the upper rafters, the organist was responsible not only for motivating fans ...
Live Concert Streaming - The Time is Now [Op-Ed]
Prior to co-founding EVNTLIVE in January, 2012, David Carrico was CEO of CMG, a music industry marketing, consulting and management group. Here, he calls on the music industry to work with new companies and business models to create a much needed new revenue stream from online concert streams. “It's not just about EVNTLIVE," Carrico says, “this ...
Should Pirate Site Advertisers Be Punished? Spain Eyes Crackdown
Should company's that advertise on pirate sites be punished as supporting piracy? It's a debate that's raged in the music community in recent weeks fueled in part by Cracker's David Lowery. On his Trichordist blog, Lowery wrote that brands who advertise on pirate sites are “supporting not only music piracy, but also the mainstream piracy of ...
Philippe Petit: At Home
You may think that a wire-walker has little or nothing to do with jazz or art. But to me, wire-walking is all about rhythm, balance and expression. In the case of Philippe Petit—perhaps the world's most famous wire-walker and juggler—there's also poetry and philosophy. Philippe, as you surely recall, brazenly and illegally walked between the Twin ...
Keeping Jazz Alive: One Weekend at a Time?
Sometimes I wonder if I am just fooling myself (and anyone who asks) that jazz is really alive in the Twin Cities. When I am at Jazz Central, the Artists Quarter, Black Dog or Studio Z, for example, the vitality of the music is beyond question. Veterans like Donald Washington, George Cartwright, Peter Schimke, Milo Fine, ...
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