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Why Music Startups and Ad Networks Suffer from "Flavor of the Month Syndrome"
Last week, I was out in Indiana, chatting it up with one of music's respected tastemakers. I had just presented Earbits to several local business leaders, talking about the potential of our platform to become a streaming service of scale. Said tastemaker, a well-known blogger and host of his own show on Sirius, told me that ...
Music Fans in the Internet Age: Same Behaviors, Amplified
Over the past few years, different variations of the same question have repeatedly bubbled up on the music blogs: has the internet killed music fandom? If music fans are indeed a dying breed, the industry and art form of music face a problem of apocalyptic proportions. After all, fans keep the amps humming, the records spinning, ...
The Success of the Online Music Market Will Be Won or Lost in Translation
"The net effect is the creation of a sort of musical babelfish." Guest post by Jason Herskowitz ( @jherskowitz ) of Tomahawk and Official.fm. This post originally appeared on sidewinder.fm. It only takes a quick glance at your favorite social network to see that people love sharing their favorite music. But the people on the receiving end are often less than enthused, either ...
Are Music Fanatics a Dying Breed?
Guest post by Alex May of sidewinder.fm A recent video of an album teaser by Muse quickly separated the fans from the critics. The hatred expressed toward the band erupted over a clip of a song on an album that hasn't been released yet. Several listeners suggested that even though they're fans of Muse, this song has ...
Enthusiastically Disorganized Music
Why is it that, having found a perfect quote, I can never find it again when I want to quote it myself? Sitting on a plane recently, reading (laboriously) through The Rise of a Jazz Art World by Paul Lopes, I found what feels like the perfect -if really inaccurate—phrase to describe jazz, particularly for those ...
Modernizing the Merchandise Madness
(UPDATED) Dave Kusek is a senior consultant in technology and marketing and General Manager of Digital Cowboys Consulting. Kusek is the former CEO of Berkleemusic.com and co-author of The Future of Music. For artists struggling to make a living in the digital age, a strong merch strategy can be the difference between living life as a starving artist ...
On the Banks of the Jabbok With Chet Baker
by C. Michael Bailey
When Yale professor Harold Bloom was interviewed by NPR shortly after publication of Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (Riverhead, 2005), he was quite candid about his relationship with his own Judaism and Yahweh: Bloom: ... I may, as I say, lack trust in the covenant, but though I keep asking Yahweh to go ...
Music Apps Become Pawns in Platform War
Guest post by Kyle Bylin of sidewinder.fm Apple did not debut a Pandora rival at the recent iPhone 5 unveiling. Sentiment among analysts about the possibility, however, did reveal something about how the ongoing platform war will impact music apps. Often we regard a “good" idea with great timing as having the potential to capture a ...
Trent Reznor Abandons D.I.Y. and Returns to a Major Label
Celebrated singer-songwriter and music producer Trent Reznor has been an independent recording artist ever since he left Interscope Records in 2007. After founding his own record label in 2008 and releasing music independently, the Academy Award winning musician has reverted back to the majors for help in releasing his latest project through Columbia Records, pointing out ...
The Price of Free vs the Price of Fame
The recent furor over Amanda Palmer's decision to request non-paid musicians to join her on tour, hits home the unique situation musicians are faced with in the quest for success. The conundrum is how to be self-sustaining, yet available to offer up their musical wares for nada should the chance of exposure present itself. The self-sustaining ...
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