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Music Degrees, $50,000 and the Military Band
I've been checking out some of the recent blogs here at MusicianWages, in particular, How to Actually Make $50,000 a Year and How Do I Get A Job After Music School and felt something really should be said about the military musician, since many of us have music degrees and make over $50,000 a year. First ...
Why Bands Need to Track Their Merch
Every time I attend a show, I check out what the bands are selling at the merchandise table. When I like a band enough to buy a record, usually I spend some time talking to the band members to get an idea of when the record was made, where they recorded, and so on. There is ...
My Life an Album a Year
By Steve Holtje My 50th birthday was March 29, which has me feeling retrospective. I could just make lists of favorite albums, but that would mostly cluster around my formative years (lots of '70s and '80s stuff). Going a year at a time produced a more nuanced and less obvious set of albums. Thanks for indulging ...
2001 Flashback - Experts Believe MP3 Can Be Killed
Pho, an infamous music industry and technology e-mail listserv, unearthed a great WSJ article from 2001 the other day. It documents the uptake in interest in the MP3 several months before the first iPod launched. The record industry wanted to make the MP3 obsolete, since it was an “unprotected" format, and it looked to the tech ...
A Psychological Analysis of Record Industry Decline
Everyone has their own theory on why the record industry is in decline. In part, they all hold a grain of truth. Hundreds of things helped exacerbate the process—some obvious, others not. The diagnosis will always remain open to speculation. After ten years (or more) of the smartest minds in various fields prognosticating and predicting the death ...
Artists: Stop Giving Away Your Most Valuable Asset...
The following is an open letter from artist and music entrepreneur Evan Lowenstein. He's the 'Evan' in Evan & Jaron and founder of StageIt (stageit.com, @backstageit), a company that allows artists to monetize interactive, live experiences online. Most recently, they've attracted participation from Jimmy Buffett. “Over the past ten years, technology has enabled our fans to ...
Music, the Man and the P2P Rebellion: Are Copyrights the Vietnam of Today's Youth?
Where once pop music was the soundtrack of the revolution, now it's the revolution's object. Clearly this is not your daddy's sit-in. But today's youth may be in for a rude awakening when they realize what they are really rebelling against— their own freedom. I grew up in the aftermath of the “hippie" era; the one ...
One Cop's Struggle to Make It as a Musician...
What's your day job? Well, singer-songwriter Jesse Weeks sometimes has a day job, other times a night job. You see, he's a Toronto police officer, and pursues his musical career while off-duty. And, he's done okay, winning a $15,000 songwriting competition and major radio and label attention. Still, it's been a struggle, and after grabbing lunch ...
Bryan Adams: 'I Feel Sad for Young Musicians.'
Cake's John McCrea of and Bryan Adams must be friends. Earlier this month, McCrea said that music will be a hobby for most in 5 or 10 years. Adams is now echoing similar thoughts. “I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly... It doesn't matter ...
Music That Needs to be Heard: Is Anyone out There?
[Full disclosure. I am the Vice President of the Twin Cities Jazz Society.] The Twin Cities Jazz Society sponsors a series of concerts every year, dubbed Jazz From J to Z. The series title is intended to describe the wide range of music that falls under the jazz label, from trad to swing to big band ...
