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If You Believe Filesharing is Stealing, How Does That Affect Your Craft?
Every day here at WAMM, we do our best to help artists learn about and adapt to the new realities of the music industry. But when it comes to things like filesharing, some artists have limits. Last month, the respected French dance music label Institubes voluntarily shut its doors, citing not a lack of interest but ...
Like It or Not, the World Still Lusts After Major Labels...
We all want to think of ourselves as rational, forward-thinking, and independent people. But despite the crashing and burning, the euphoria surrounding direct-to-fan, and all the tawdry history, many of us are still lusting after major labels. And that goes for executives, investors, journalists, and most importantly, artists. It's not everyone, but it may be a ...
Torrentfreak Face the Music: Grooveshark is Doomed
About two weeks back my article on which P2P sites would be affected if Congress takes makes illegal streaming a felony, caught the attention of TorrentFreak.com. And why not. They made my list of sites that would have to radically alter their content and advertisers if such a law went in effect. Well, Ernesto, the lead ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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