Home » Search Center » Results: Opinion
Results for "Opinion"
Countering the Commoditization of Music by Giving Credit and Creating Value
By Musician and Marketing Consultant Solveig Whittle (@shadesofsolveig). Ubiquity drives the commoditization of music and other intellectual property, lowering value and decreasing discovery. Giving credit, or attribution, counteracts this effect and creates value. I read two posts this week which got me thinking about how these two ideas related in the worlds of both social media ...
The Game of Music Discovery
Guest post by Marc Ruxin (@ruxputin) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. The wonderful thing about music is that there will always be another new band to love, and another song to rip you from reality and throw you into a more ethereal realm. With exponentially more music being made today than there was ...
Caught in Time: The Music Industry's Struggle to Adapt
Guest post by Justin Stansbury (@twentyeyes138) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Not too long ago, I was discussing with a friend of mine what we felt our purpose in life is. For some, their purpose may be to become a writer, a doctor, or a lawyer. But for me it's music. Regardless of ...
Death, Rebirth & New Revolution
by Ian Patterson
The death knell has often been sounded for jazz and many would argue that the last revolution in jazz took place as the '60s handed the baton to the '70s, with the electronic-influenced jazz typified by trumpeter Miles Davis' ground breaking albums In a Silent Way (Columbia, 1969) and Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970). Many believe that ...
Considerazioni a margine di “Faces&Places – uomini e luoghi del jazz a Bologna”
by AAJ Italy Staff
La nebbia a gl'irti colli Piovigginando sale, E sotto il maestrale Urla e biancheggia il mar;... Anche se a Bologna il mare non c'è e di nebbia negli ultimi anni non se ne vede un gran che, l'autunno ha comunque portato i suoi frutti di stagione: la vita culturale della città, i cui appellativi “dotta" e ...
Next Big Sound's Victor Hu on Youtube Replacing Radio and Labels Ignoring Likes
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. We stopped by Next Big Sound's New York office for a chat with its data scientist Victor Hu, formerly a mathematician for the U.S. Department of Defense and “stats whiz“ for the New York Yankees, to see how the company gauges music popularity for clients including Billboard, which relies on ...
The 3 Most Profitable DIY Revenue Streams, and Why Many Artists Succeed at Only One of Them
Guest post by Jay Frank (@Repojay) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Independent artists can make more money than ever before. The walls of major label distribution have crumbled, and have been down for a decade. Social networks make promotion to fans easier and cheaper. Add in home recording, crowd-sourced artwork, and other cost cutting ...
Music Discovery is a Burned out Phrase
By freelance music writer Tyler Hayes (@thealbumproject). Previously only for those seeking out new music, music discovery is now something forced on the average Internet citizen from companies looking to expand subscription music and rebuild after the Napster fall. Rather than making real progress towards helping people find new music to listen to, the 'music discovery' ...
How to Improve Your Music Tech Event
Guest post by Cortney Harding (@cortneyharding) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Many of us spend a lot of time and money attending music tech events, as the number of them has mushroomed over the last five years. In fact, it seems like there is a nomadic class of people who do almost nothing but ...
A Happy New Year and the Auld Lang Syne
On a night very much like this one, 83 years ago, jazz came to the rescue of Western Civilization. Big Band leader Guy Lombardo arrived right on time and brought in the new year with his lightly swinging rendition of “Auld Lang Syne," a traditional Scots song that poet Robert Burns used as the basis of ...
