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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. ...
Digital Music Prices: Is Cheaper Better?
If you visit Amazon's digital music store and browse the top albums chart one thing you might notice is how low the prices are. Almost every album is “on sale" in some way making it one of the cheapest places to buy digital music. On the other side, glancing at the iTunes top album charts you ...
How Music Streaming Services Could Help Artists, Fans, Labels, Charities and the Music Industry
Guest post by Benji Rogers (@benjikrogers), Founder & CEO of PledgeMusic. I'm not into streaming. I've never really made a secret of that, and as such it occurred to me that rather than simply bashing it and those who seek to profit from it, I should come up with a solution that would make it work ...
Are Music Fans Craving Exclusivity?
Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you'll most likely be familiar with Amanda Palmer's impressive KickStarter campaign (she's raised over $750,000 through the crowd-funding platform). At risk of being 'one more to add to the list', I want to focus on what we can learn from her and what the success of her campaign suggests ...
Jazz on the Bosphorus: Troubled Waters
by Francesco Martinelli
For seven years now the rather laboriously named Istanbul Jazz Center (confusingly the logo includes the letters “JC's," I don't know why) has been one of the major clubs of the Turkish city. Situated in the posh neighborhood of Ortakoy, in the shadow of the first Bosphorus Bridge, its schedule has featured major international jazz stars ...
Can We Rebuild/Reboot the Jazz Audience?
In the always thoughtful NPR jazz blog A Blog Supreme editor Patrick Jarenwattonan poses the question “IF not jazz education, what will rebuild the jazz audience.” In the piece he cites a music educator who questions the tired old saw that suggests that if we just pour more money into jazz/music/arts education in general we will ...
New Music Stats - Yearning for Audio Quality
Here are some sobering stats that I found on the Smart Money site and a great infographic that sums them up. The most frustrating thing for everyone in the music industry these days is the reality of digital music sales. As you can see in the graphic, digital sales have not replaced the revenue from the ...
'Taps' Turns 150 Years Old
Taps—the American bugle call that today is played solemnly at memorials and soldiers' funerals—has a fascinating history. In today's Wall Street Journal (or online here), I write about why the 24-note song was conceived in 1862 and how it evolved over the years. In the longer online version at WSJ.com, I also include rock and jazz ...
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