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Why RCRDDEALS Matters More Than Spotify
Post by: Robin Davey, Head of Music and Film Development at GROWVision. Spotify has been the crux of music industry chatter when it comes to proclamations of a musical revolution, but the announcement of RCRDDEALS is a major step forward, and could prove to be a real game changer for breaking new acts and building established ones. RCRDDEALS appears ...
My Midlife Jazz Crisis - Stage 4: The Brand of Jazz
The issue of branding has increasingly become a driving force in everything we do both personally and professionally. Just think of Facebook and how we brand ourselves through accumulating the most friends or associating ourselves with certain activities or groups, etc. Facebook has become the quickest and most accessible form of personal brand recognition. I recently ...
C is for Civilization
Once upon a time there were grownups in the music business.They were around to insist that artists meet standards and to step in when they went too far. Artists, by definition, don't have limits. Many also don't have taste or restraint, nor do they care about such things. Which is why there were record producers some ...
A Stamp of Approval for Jazz
We're a society of pack rats, of collectors. Or so it seems. Some of us collect a few things we find meaningful, others have made it into a warehouse-style art form. In general, jazz fans collect live music memories and savor the special moments. Many collect them in hard copy as well—CDs, LPs, 78s, images. You ...
Why SXSW is Bad for Your Business...
Stop kidding yourself. Because for most music companies, SXSW is simply an awful place to do business. It's just an expensive party, one full of extreme barriers to good dealmaking and business-building. And, one so full of noise it's questionable whether any marketing dollars make sense here. Sure, it's fun to hop around venues and soak ...
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross "The Social Network"
One of my recent Facebook rants involved my stupefaction for the surprising nomination and even more shocking Academy Award win of the Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross score to the David Fincher film The Social Network. I was surprised that something like this could have stood alongside any of the great musical masterpieces that came before ...
Bon Jovi Thinks Steve Jobs is "Personally Responsible for Killing the Music Business."
Well, Jon Bon Jovi has learned from his peers how to get press. Just argue that the Internet is destroying rock, liken it to an atomic bomb, or, in this case, declare that, “Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business." Since Hypebot readers are fully capable of vetting the validly of that quote, ...
Why Superstars Still Exist...
The following is the first of a three-part series by guest writer Anthony Accardo. There's been quite a bit of dialogue on whether superstars are really necessary for the industry or even good for music. Or worse, whether superstars and Top 40 hits are blocking great music from seeing the light of day. But the reality ...
Will the Once Immortal Warner Sell to Their Mortal Enemy?
Napster founder Sean Parker is bidding on the music giant. Tech-blogs have used the word “irony." But they may have it backwards. They think that this would be a victory for Parker, when it will more likely be his undoing. There is no doubt in my mind that Warner would sell to Napster founder, Sean Parker's ...
The Power to Destroy Your Music Startup, Overnight...
Who really has the power to kill your music startup? It used to be the major label, but that's so 2006. “Index Ventures will put a lot of money into music," said Vince Bannon of Getty Images at Canadian Music Week. “But they won't touch anything involving the major labels or licensing." In other words, they ...
