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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 ...
Leveling Up: Is the Music Industry Ripe for Gamification?
Guest post by Richard Pulvino (@rpulvino) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. I've become addicted to thinking about gamification thanks to a class I took about the topic via Coursera, an online education platform. It's impossible not to. The course gamed my mind to think about game elements all of the time. I started ...
iTunes as a Music Discovery Service
By Tyler Hayes, who runs the music discovery site Nxt Big Thing. iTunes is both a mainstream juggernaut, destroying the competition in market and mind-share, and a great discovery tool, arguably just as good as any local indie record store. Often the store gets overlooked simply as a music store where people, who know what they ...
Big Data: The New Oil, or the New Snake Oil?
Guest post by Will Mills (@will_mills_) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Mills is the Director of Music and Content at Shazam. Big data played a pivotal role in this year's U.S. election, with both candidates attempting to harness the power of information to win. Barack Obama's campaign in particular mined deep metrics of ...
Will the Internet Radio Fairness Act Drive a Stake in the Creative Process?
By Frank Liwall, President and Founder of independent publishing company Royalty Network, and its label Krian Music Group. I don't believe in devaluing music further. I do know that when an industry is thriving, there's opportunity to invest in and cultivate talent. So the question becomes, can we continue to invest in talent, when challenges like ...
The State of Music Psychology
Guest post by Diana Hereld (@christypaffgen) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. The psychological conversation surrounding music has boomed. In a few short years, the studies of music therapy and the applied neuroscience of music have hugely invaded the mainstream — the question is, why? As many publications have noted, the initiative that music ...
A Better Social Music Experience
Guest post by Alex May (@AlexmDrums) of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Of the growing number of social music services and apps, none of them have realized the full and broader potential of social platforms; a large gap still exists between listening to music and being social about it. Current music services and apps ...
Jazz, Baseball, Politics and the Beltway Blues: Our American Dialogue, Part II
by Carl L. Hager
Ref: How Life Imitates the World Series (Penguin, 1983) by Thomas Boswell Well, that's over. $2.6 billion later, the U.S. presidential election is history. No more polls, no more red state / blue state electoral maps, no more trash-talking. Right on its heels, the BBWAA (Baseball Writers Association of America) announced the ...
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