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The Role of the Local Promoter vs. the Local Band
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 ...
A Whole New World: The Evolution of Mobile Music
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 ...
One Year Later: Why I Don't Love Spotify
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 ...
Curation: The Evolution of the Global Brain
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 ...
Roman Candles Across the Stars
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, ...
Jazz, Politics, Edward Kennedy and the Ghosts of Richard Nixon: Our American Dialogue and the Hatfields and McCoys
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 ...
In Defense of Emily White (the NPR Intern)
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 ...
Does the Digital Album Have a Future?
Guest post by Aaron Tap (@aarontap), a guitarist, singer, and producer who performs and records with the likes of Matt Nathanson, Paula Kelley, and more. Despite the shift to single-serve music culture, there remains a significant group of fans who want something more from their digital music. Listeners who yearn for a more tactile and immersive experience ...
If the Internet is Global, Why is Music Still so Regional?
Sure, great music transcends borders. But music apps, for the most part, do not. It's a strange state of affairs: the web is global in theory, yet in the 'legit' digital music world, it's all about country-by-country restrictions and licensing hangups. Pandora is famously absent from the UK, one of the most important music markets in ...
Streaming Music Will Change Culture for the Better. Here's How:
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Forget, for the moment, about how much Spotify pays out to artists. Focus instead on the nature of those payouts. In the olden days (i.e. 20 years ago), recording artists had to convince you to fall for their music once - just long enough to buy a CD. ...
