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Unraveling the Grammy Travesty: Bobby Sanabria Discusses the Latin Jazz Grammy
On April 6, 2011, the National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences introduced a “restructuring" of The Grammy Awards, eliminating 31 categories. This unexpected downsizing stole recognition from a number of genres, including Latin Jazz, contemporary jazz, classical music, Hawaiian music, and more. The storm had been brewing for a while, as the popular music industry ...
Is This the Best or the Worst Time for Independent Musicians?
On Music Think Tank, Rich Gordon poses an interesting question—Is this the best or the worst time for independent musicians? With the ever growing DIY movement, musicians are finding that they can record and release their music without big companies. If enough people like their music, then artists are able to become successful. However, more opportunity ...
Jazz Takes a Back Seat at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
This was originally posted by Brian Ross (Managing Editor of Truth-2-Power.com) on The Huffington Post on 5/8/11. Brian makes some excellent points about the state of the music today. Feel free to discuss below. Yes, I speak jazz heresy: Maybe it is time that the promoters of the annual April/May music festival in New Orleans fess ...
Other Places: A Jazzfest Post-Mortem
In January, after looking over the lineup for this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which was laden with rock and pop, I wrote: More than five years after Katrina, with the city recovering but much of it still resembling a post-war nightmare, a party called a jazz festival symbolizes New Orleans' determination to recover. ...
How Google and Amazon Hurt Recorded Music by Launching Cloud Lockers
The launch of Google Music and Amazon's Cloud Music Locker without licenses (and in Google's case without a download store) represents a real setback for the recorded music industry. I'm not one who believes that Google and Amazon should need licenses to create the kind of online hard drives that they did. But the result are ...
Recorded Music as a Commodity and the Power of Artistic Vision
Let's just admit it: recorded music is a commodity product. The abundance of recorded music now more than satiates the (plentiful) demand, and the market of recorded music is losing differentiation. Sure, different recordings will suit different needs and wants to some extent, but that's no different from other commodities like coffee or petroleum or pharmaceuticals. So what ...
Music's Secret to Competing with Free: Raise the Price
Tweet Pundits are declaring that, due to so much free music on the web, Amazon's 69-cent- a-tune program is the ultimate sign of retail music's demise. But some basic laws of marketing are being ignored within these conclusions. The solution to competing with free might be counter-intuitive: raise its wholesale price. Insanity? Let’s see. Sometimes it ...
NARM's Bill Wilson: Music, Investment, Innovation and the New Music Business
This guest post comes from NARM's VP of Digital Strategy and Business Development, Bill Wilson on the first day of NARM's Annual Convention in LA. The sound of schadenfreude is deafening. "The music business is dead." “The companies aren't changing." “The licensing and acquisition of music products is a third rail to investors." I understand, I used ...
The New Music Industry is Not Coming
According to Taurean Casey on MusicThink Tank, the new music industry is already here. Different business models are reshaping how we market and distribute music. Change is inevitable and the three companies that are battling for the chance to shape the music industry aren't even record labels. (Read On) “The only thing that will change is ...
Singles vs. Albums: Which Does the Public Really Prefer?
Big Data wants the world to believe that the album format is dead and CDs are dying a rapid death. But they have a strong vested interest in this point of view; creating services that sell or find and allow the “sharing” of singles has been the tent-pole that supports much of the internet. Could their ...
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