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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Seattle's Live Music Business Model is Broken
Drummer Tarik Abouzied has a post on his website entitled, “Seattle’s Live Music Business Model is Broken,” which he says, “is about informing the live music audience of the realities behind putting on these shows and what I see as an unsustainable situation, and trying to move past the usual finger-pointing and complaining so we can ...
Music Scenes: The Benefit of Focusing at the Local Level
Guest post by Richard Pulvino (@rpulvino) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. From the late 90's to early 2000's, I immersed myself in the local hardcore music scene in Rochester, NY. I wasn't in any of the bands, but attended shows regularly and would go support friends of mine who were in bands that ...
Will Music Streaming Kill the Music Business for Good?
Will subscription services, like Spotify & Last.FM obsoletize the need or desire to own music files, thus killing the lifeline of artist and record company revenue? Some say not enough people will pay for music monthly (as if it were electricity) for it to be sustainable. Who’s being realistic verses who is being romantic can be ...
