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Jazz, Politics, Edward Kennedy and the Ghosts of Richard Nixon: Our American Dialogue and the Hatfields and McCoys
by Carl L. Hager
To get into heaven, don't snap for a seven Live clean, don't have no fault Oh, I take the gospel, whenever it's possible But with a grain of salt --"It Ain't Necessarily So," from Porgy & Bess by George and Ira Gershwin Edward Kennedy ...
Emily White Calls for Professionalism in 2013 / Poll: Who is the Music Industry's Best?
By Emily White of Whitesmith Entertainment and Readymade Records. I love music and the music industry. I'm a geek about doing the work and love working with artists to help achieve goals and build sustainable careers. As an artist manager and consultant, I work with or create new teams around each artist on our roster. I ...
Music Distributors Refuse to Join Labels in the Present
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. If you know people who work at record labels, you know they are not without complaint. From Napster to YouTube, half of the new technologies in the world at any time seem specifically designed to subtract money from their bank accounts — oh, and everyone thinks they're too rich, serve ...
Goldminds: A Vision for the Future of the Indie Music Community
By Derek Webb, Co-Founder of Noise Trade. As I'm closing in on the end of my second decade as a professional, indie-minded musician, I've been thinking about how I got here. Through the starting and leaving of a moderately successful band, ups & downs navigating a solo career as an almost hyper-niche artist, and the all but accidental ...
The Opportunity of Streaming Services for Artists
Guest post by Rishi Mirchandani (@rmirchandani) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. He handles operations for Turntable.fm. There has been a lot of debate over streaming services and the royalty rates they pay. Critics point to royalties from services like Spotify, where it takes 200 streams to earn the equivalent of one download, as evidence ...
Fado em Si Bemol: Fado... With a Pinch of Jazz
by Ana Francisca Gonçalves Pereira
Jazz reinvents itself every day, in any way, like a chameleon transforms Itself to match its surroundings. It is thanks to this ability that jazz's place in the world has been firmly cemented; from a musical point of view, there seem to be no physical or spiritual boundaries to what musicians can arrange with ...
The Holy Grail of Music Listening: Social, Discovery, and Recommendations
Guest post by Sagee Ben-Zedeff (@sageeb) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Ben-Zedeff is the founder and CEO of Serendip Media. Three months ago, Nielsen published one of my favorite reports of the year, Music 360. It's a rather comprehensive, in-depth study of consumer interaction with music in the US. The results this year didn't surprise me, ...
MOG's Fallen King: Hyman Gets the Boot
David Hyman had a dream that came true. He spearheaded a Spotify competitor that delivered near-audiophile quality music to your phone. So good was MOG, that in July of 2012 it was bought by headphone innovator, Beats for reported $14 Million, which included relocating Hyman and his family to Malibu is serious first-class style. But, less ...
Music Discovery: The Path to Digital Failure
Guest post by Kyle Bylin of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Billboard has doubled down on a particularly dangerous idea. In the trade publication's annual FutureSound white paper, it proclaims that music discovery is “The Key To Digital Fortune." This is, at best, egregious hyperbole, and, at worst, complete mystification. Senior correspondent Alex Pham, who ...
An Empowered Future for Musicians
Guest post by Matt Urmy (@matturmy), Founder and CEO of Artist Growth, for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. I would never presume to be able to provide truly valuable insight into the values and philosophies that shaped the business models of the music industry from previous decades. I simply do not know enough about it. ...
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