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Music Industry Fail: This Time It's Personal.
The big mistake that the industry continues to make is that too many are thinking of music in terms of social engagement, when it is actually a deeply personal experience. The huge success of Amanda Palmers Kickstarter campaign, which has so far raised over half a million dollars, exemplifies this point. People are willing to shell ...
Musicians and the Public Image
By Chuck Anderson Is it just me or have you ever noticed that musicians are consistently portrayed by the advertising media as losers, homeless, broke, druggies, alcoholics or just plain simpletons? From my perspective, I am not only offended by this but enraged enough to try to raise consciousness about this entire subject. Are some musicians ...
India Provides a Glimpse into the Future
ll markets are not the same. Most people in India have not had access to high-speed Internet or a PC. The wired broadband penetration of India stands at about 13 million subscriptions and there are only 50 million PCs in the country. Very few Indians have broadband or a PC of their own. 3G expands consumer ...
Tyler Hayes: Apps vs. Music
Guest post by Tyler Hayes, founder of Liisten.com, an independent music discovery site.. Spotify will lose close to $900 million this year. Are we still sure that subscription services will save the industry? A better hope at trading music for money and becoming profitable is to look at the app market, specifically iOS and the Mac ...
Modern Jazz at the Apollo Theater
Modern Jazz at the Apollo: 1950s-1960s When the Apollo Theatre opened the doors for its inaugural show on Friday, January 26, 1934, the trendsetting variety bill included the great jazzman Benny Carter and his orchestra. The big band, or so-called Swing Era was in full flower and these swinging 17-piece behemoths, sparkplugs of the happy feet ...
Bridges vs. Walls
by J. Scott Fugate
If you ask ten Americans “what does it mean to be an American?" you might well get 10 different answers.So it goes with America's only original, indigenous art form.Wait... we have one of those?Yes indeed--although it's rarely given the National respect or attention it deserves.Thus, if you ask ...
Le mille facce di Miles Davis.
by AAJ Italy Staff
Discutere di Miles Davis è un esercizio sempre eccitante: il trombettista di Alton, Illinois, è stato uno degli artisti più importanti della storia e ogni sua fase artistica è ampia e ben documentata. L'abbondanza di materiale fortunatamente non va mai a discapito della qualità. Miles è riuscito in questo miracolo perché ha sempre saputo guardare avanti, ...
Music Exec Jimmy Iovine Calls Subscription Music "Culturally Inadequate", Plans Alternative
Jimmy Iovine, the chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, is dissatisfied with the current state of subscription music and has plans to do something about it. But what concerns Iovine is not the revenue paid to artists and labels, but rather the quality of the experience. “Right now, subscription music online is culturally inadequate," Iovine told ...
At Least One Indie Artist is Making Big $'s from Streaming Music
Guest post by Chris Duncan of The Orchard's Daily Rind. If you're from outside of Scandinavia, you probably have no idea who Jonathan Johansson is. Let me fill you in. He's a very hip Swedish artist who has been steadily building a healthy fanbase in the Nordics with the aid of his label, Hybris. It was ...
Missing Gene Lees
Gene Lees died two years ago this month, on April 22. That day I wrote, “We lost a writer unsurpassed at illuminating music and the world that musicians inhabit. I lost a cherished colleague whose work inspired me, a dear friend whose companionship brightened my existence.” The Portland, Oregon, broadcaster, poet and visual essayist Lynn Darroch ...
