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On Why Jazz Isn't Cool Anymore...
By Nicholas Payton Jazz died in 1959. There maybe cool individuals who say they play Jazz, but ain't shit cool about Jazz as a whole. Jazz died when cool stopped being hip. Jazz was a limited idea to begin with. Jazz is a label that was forced upon the musicians. The musicians should've never accepted that ...
Occupy the Music Industry
The falling security of the US economy bears an uncanny resemblance to the relative microcosm that is the music Industry. The occupy movements 99% are angry at the 1% with all the wealth. Those at the top are overtly occupied with increasing their own worth, with little respect for the prosperity of people who make up ...
Blogger Criticizes Artists for Making Money; Tunecore CEO Jeff Price Responds
TuneCore CEO Jeff Price responds: Before I say another word, yes, I know I'm rising to the bait. I know this response means more eyeballs for Digital Music News—a semi-legitimate music industry blog that tends to be sensational to drive eyeballs. I know that Paul Resnikoff's constant personal attacks on TuneCore and me are a goad ...
Active vs. Passive Fans: Why Radio and TV Still Rank Tops for Music Discovery
The data presented in a recent NPD Group/NARM study found terrestrial radio and syndicated television among the main influential sources of music discovery (60% and 49% respectively). With all the new avenues for music discovery out there, why are the majority of people still choosing to shape their musical tastes through premeditated and controlled media sources? By assessing the data, ...
Big Mistake? Pandora Currently Has No Plans to Integrate into Facebook...
A Spotify-style Facebook integration is not on the roadmap for Pandora—and may never be—according to founder Tim Westergren. Instead, the company is pushing a strategy that prioritizes Pandora's homegrown social networking tools, while still enabling some push updates and connectivity options through Facebook, Twitter, and email. “We're going to watch how [those tools are] embraced and ...
Benny Golson on the Value of an Interview
In our ongoing series of dialogues with artists on their expectations of music critics & journalists, and the publications they write for, NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson—one of the more thoughtful people in this music—weighed in with two essays. Here is the second of Benny's two erudite contributions to the dialogue. The Value Of An Interview ...
Pete Townshend: "Rock Music is Junk", iTunes is a "Vampire" and "What's Next is Already Here."
The BBC invited The Who's Pete Townshend to give a lecture in honor of iconic UK broadcaster John Peel. During the wide ranging, smart and often amusing speech, Townsend professed his love of streaming music and called iTunes a vampire. But that was just the start... Pete Townsend: Firstly, I'm honored to have been asked ...
Part 7: What Musicians Expect from Music Critics and Journalists
This is Pt. 7 in our series of dialogues with musicians where we pose the following burning question: When you read music journalism and criticism, what qualities are you looking for in the writer and the writing? This week's correspondents: Drummer-bandleader Allison Miller, and flutist-bandleader-composer Nicole Mitchell. Allison Miller “I look for writers who are open ...
Madonna's Brother is Currently Sleeping Under a Bridge in Michigan...
Could there be a starker commentary on America right now? Try this for income inequality: it turns out that Madonna's older brother Anthony Ciccone is now sleeping under a bridge in Traverse City, Michigan, after a fallout with the family. And this is a 'gruesome,' sub-zero existence: as temperatures continue to drop, Ciccone has already suffered ...
Is Occupy Wall Street Fair Game for Music Marketing?
Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the Manhattan sector of a growing international protest movement-in-the-making, has already seen a few famous musicians drop by including Lupe Fiasco and Kanye West. It's also being used by some musicians to promote their music, including an artist called Penguin Prison that took a previously released song and repurposed it for OWS. ...
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