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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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