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INgrooves CEO Robb McDaniels on Music Streaming: Setting the Record Straight
It's a format change—that's why it is stoking so much fear and anxiety in the marketplace. The ability to “access" your media and stream it to any device, anywhere is simply the logical progression of technological development that has led us from vinyl to cassette to CD to download to stream. With each of these format ...
Agile Music: Artist Creativity and Music Formats in the Age of Mass Customization
Today I want to talk to you about a concept called Agile Music, a framework for understanding how artist creativity, industry business models and music products must all undergo a programme of radical, transformational change. I'm going to start by outlining the catalysts for this change. This time last year on this very stage I argued ...
Ian Rogers: Instead of SOPA, Here's How to Combat Piracy While Encouraging an Open Internet
Guest post by Ian Rogers of Topspin Media. Last week's Internet-wide SOPA/PIPA protests divided the Internet between content owners looking for stronger anti-piracy tools and technologists who believed the proposed legislation was an overreach. Those opposed said SOPA/PIPA opened the door to content companies taking down sites such as Tumblr and WordPress based on infringement by ...
The Grammy Travesty Continues: Commentary from John Santos
In April 2011, the National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences announced the elimination of 31 Grammy Award categories, claiming that the scaling down process made the Grammy Award more important. With the disappearance of categories like Latin Jazz, Traditional Blues, Classical Crossover, Cajun, Hawaiian, and more, artists around the world couldn't disagree more as they ...
NAMM Slam 2012: Can 92,000 Be Wrong?
Generally NAMM is described by me as a 100,000 square foot Guitar Center with about 70,000 people playing Stairway to Heaven. Not this year. Aside form a record breaking 92,000 attendees, NAMM has grown with the times, expanding from mere trade show to conference, power broker meet-n-greet. Up until last year, had an aspiring artist asked ...
Qualche libera riflessione sul Top Jazz
by AAJ Italy Staff
Puntuali come ogni anno, nel numero di gennaio 2012 di Musica Jazz (tra l'altro l'ultimo sotto la direzione di Filippo Bianchi, ora l'onere/onore spetta all'amico e collega Luca Conti) sono state pubblicate le classifiche del Top Jazz, referendum ormai “storico" della rivista milanese e da qualche tempo riservato esclusivamente ai musicisti italiani. Puntuali come ogni anno ...
Are Club Owners Totally Lost?
This article by Dave Goldberg is making it around the internet. While the writer makes it specific to LA, it is the current model for a lot of jazz clubs throughout the country. WHY LA CLUB OWNERS ARE TOTALLY LOST AND SOME ADVICE FOR THEM FROM A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN by Dave Goldberg AS I'VE BEEN LOOKING ...
Do Music Critics Still Matter? It Depends on Which Critic...
Back in the days of scarcity, I needed magazines like RollingStone and SPIN. I cared if the Source gave an album five mics, simply because it was impossible to preview everything (or sometimes, anything). But that's all over now, and it's a memo the LA Weekly is getting in bold type. And, the reason why they ...
How National Tour Packages Are Ruining Music and Artist Discovery
Guest post by Nick Hardy, first published on Sinizine.net. I grew up in Memphis, Tenn. and was involved in the punk scene from my first Rancid tape stolen from my high school. I had my crappy ska band and many of my friends had just as horrible punk bands. During the mid 90's Memphis was booming ...
Sopa Opera and the Anti-Music Media Bias
With piracy affecting all areas of commerce, why does it seem like only the music biz is whining? Well, because the main-stream media is only “reporting" about them and ignoring the massive extra-music industry support for SOPA. But why? Is SOPA really such a huge threat to media outlet's revenue that they would sell-out on a ...
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