Results for "Opinion"

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Two Inane Suggestions for Compensating Artists Online

July 25, 2012

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 ...

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A Killer, Sustainable, Industry Saving Music Service is Possible

July 24, 2012

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 ...

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The Role of the Local Promoter vs. the Local Band

July 20, 2012

Guest post by Lance Tobin (@ltliveboston) who runs a musician-based tax accounting firm and is an independent concert promoter in Boston. One of the most advantageous relationships an artist or band can have is with a promoter. At the local level, there seems to be a mystery as to what exactly the promoter does. “Does the ...

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Life, Law and All That Jazz: Using the Art of Improvisation in the Courtroom

July 20, 2012

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 ...

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A Whole New World: The Evolution of Mobile Music

July 19, 2012

When I got my first Walkman CD player, it completely changed the way I listened to music. I could listen to the songs I loved whenever I wanted, and it felt like they were being played for me personally. Mundane tasks suddenly became an excuse to listen to music. As a result, they went by faster ...

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One Year Later: Why I Don't Love Spotify

July 18, 2012

Guest post by Kyle Bylin of Live Nation Labs. I've had Spotify for exactly one year. When I first started using Spotify, it sparked an emotion that I hadn't felt since I encountered Audiogalaxy, an early file sharing client, for the first time. I sought out all the music I could think of, amassing a library ...

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Curation: The Evolution of the Global Brain

July 9, 2012

Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. “Those who can, do. Those who can't, review. Those who can't review, tweet. Those who can't tweet retweet." That quote is zinging around the internet this week. People are attributing it to Esquire, although I'm not finding it there. I first saw it, ironically, on Facebook. It's also ...

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Roman Candles Across the Stars

July 4, 2012

The title of today's post is abridged from Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Here's the full passage: “I shambled after, as I've been doing all my life, after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, ...

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Jazz, Politics, Edward Kennedy and the Ghosts of Richard Nixon: Our American Dialogue and the Hatfields and McCoys

June 24, 2012

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 Ellington celebrated his 70th ...

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In Defense of Emily White (the NPR Intern)

June 20, 2012

This morning I was scrolling through my Twitter feed and happened to click on a post by Josh Jackson that stated “David Lowery Responds to NPR Music Intern who doesn't pay for music." I clicked on the article and was shocked to see my name in the headline. But then I realized, the article was referring ...