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We're All in This Together: How Technology Should Shape the Future of Live Music
Guest post by Matthew Moore (@MatthewrMoore). For years, artists have been trying to do anything they can to bring a different twist to the concert experience. Whether it's a stunning light show, going out into the crowd during a tear jerking rock ballad, or bringing people from the crowd onto the stage, they're doing whatever they ...
Asking the Right Questions About Music's Future
We are experiencing a radical transition in the way recorded music relates to culture, and music entrepreneurs face a serious challenge within that transition: people seem willing to pay for books, movies and games, so what’s up with music why all the resistance? Here’s one possible answer. The labels are history, so say the blogs. Music ...
Musicians Online Are Playing in Glass Stadiums with Billions of Empty Seats
Picture an enormous concert stadium that is so big it can hold everyone. Literally there is a seat for every single person in the world. Now imagine this stadium is made entirely of glass and it also happens to have an open-roof. There you are, up on stage with your band performing your most mind-blowing songs. ...
The Young and the Digitally Restless
Guest post by Michael San Pascual. A new, technologically capable generation of music listeners is approaching adulthood. These former MySpacers are evolving into sophisticated music consumers with new and challenging expectations. They have heightened demands for mobility and social connectivity; they value the freedom to actively seek music, and also the choice to passively discover it. They ...
Radio Killed the Roneo Star?
by Carl L. Hager
Recently I began doing a series of short CD reviews with WJSU-FM 88.5, a station broadcasting from the campus of Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. The opportunity to do it came along within days of learning that KABC's parent company, Cumulus Media, Inc., had pulled the plug on the last remaining AM radio jazz programming ...
A Casual Scam: The Truth About Pre-Sale Tickets
Guest post by artist manager and booking agent Justin Herring. December 2005, the band I was playing in was offered a show at this venue in Tampa called The Masquerade. It was the venue in Tampa. I saw all my idols there growing up. Slayer, Down, Superjoint Ritual, Fear Factory, Cannibal Corpse, GWAR, Clutch, Lamb of God, ...
Text of Robert Plant, Pete Townsend and Brian May Letter Calling On Google, Isps to Fight Piracy
Robert Plant, Pete Townshend, Brian May, Elton John, Simon Cowell and six other UK musicians and music industry leaders have signed a letter addressed to Prime Minister David Cameron demanding that he fully implement the Digital Economy Act 2010, anti-piracy legislation which passed in 2010. The letter also called on ISP and search engines, online advertisers ...
Two Inane Suggestions for Compensating Artists Online
Guest post by Krzysztof 'Faza' Wiszniewski. This post was originally published at TheCynicalMusician.com. The problem with hardcore geeks (meaning here people who know about computers, as opposed to the other kind1) is while they are superhumanly knowledgable about their own area of expertise, they appear to be endearingly ignorant about everything else - humans especially. It ...
A Killer, Sustainable, Industry Saving Music Service is Possible
Guest post by Joey Flores, co-founder of Earbits,com, an online radio platform that help labels, artists and promoters acquire fans and market music and live events. I was having a chat yesterday with Kyle Bylin of Live Nation Labs, talking about the various music services, what they lack, what they have, and what we'd both want ...
Life, Law and All That Jazz: Using the Art of Improvisation in the Courtroom
Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is one of my desert island, all-time favorite records. I have the album cover for Sketches of Spain framed on my bedroom wall. I played baritone saxophone in my high school jazz band, and if I could learn any skill with the simple press of a button — Matrix-style — I ...
