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Why the Decline of MySpace is Great for Musicians
This post is by Robin Davey of The Hoax and The Bastard Fairies. Interview. Before you could say “We're big on Myspace," it seems the foundations of this once burgeoning oasis of digital discovery have quickly crumbled. These days, it actually closer resembles an online Salton Sea. In retrospect and with hindsight we have to ask ...
Personally, I Don't Care if There is Another MySpace.
This is part two of my interview with Robin Davey. He is a musician, director, and producer. His bands include The Hoax and most recently the eclectic pop duo The Bastard Fairies. Davey has directed music videos and an award-winning documentary. In this interview he talks about how focusing on core fans grew his audience and why he thinks MySpace is in terminal decline. ...
"As Things Stand Now, Digital Music Has Failed."
That “delightful" quote comes from Forrester Research analyst Mark Mulligan. In a recent article in the New York Times, he states, “We are at one of the most worrying stages yet for the industry. As things stand now, digital music has failed." An entire decade is behind us and there hasn't been much progress. Record company ...
#Midem: The Utter Cloudiness of Cloud Music...
Our very own Steve Mayall moderated a session at MidemNet today on cloud music, with a panel discussion featuring some of the key actors in the space. The panel featured Thomas Hesse from Sony Music Entertainment, Christophe Lange from streaming service simfy, Harry Maloney from platform provider Catch Media and Daren Tsui from music service mSpot. ...
Stream the Album, Make It Cheaper - Social Distortion Puts Fans in Control of Record Price
How do you get fans to listen to the entire album anymore? They want the single. Hell, they probably have the single already. And the rest of the tracks, depending on how big of a fan they are, don't matter so much. Marketers are asking fans to take upwards of half-an-hour to 80 minutes to listen ...
Jazz, Rage and the Rampage
Here's a shocker: Alleged Arizona gunman Jared Loughner played saxophone in two jazz bands while in high school and dug Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. According to yesterday's New York Times, Loughner, 22, was so passionate about jazz and dedicated to practicing that a career in music was once considered. These details come as something of ...
What CES 2011 Taught Me About the Music Biz
Former Vice President of the United States, Dan Quayle once said, “The future will be better tomorrow." Is there a chance that CES 2011 made sense of this idiom? You want the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in one sentence? 3D TVs, every iPad accessory you can think of and competing tablet computers. There, I just saved ...
Scamtunes, I Mean, Zaptunes is Back... Rebranding Itself as a Music Social Network
ZapTunes, the despised music service, is being reborn as a social network. They're no longer offering free music downloads. This announcement is at odds with their previous press release that claimed they would be back “stronger, cheaper, and unlimited forever." That effort obviously failed. Not that this hurts their creditability, seeing as they didn't any to ...
Jazz Poetry - "Canary"
Canary by Rita DoveFor Michael S. Harper Billie Holiday's burned voicehad as many shadows as lights,a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano,the gardenia her signature under that ruined face. (Now you're cooking, drummer to bass,magic spoon, magic needle.Take all day if you have towith your mirror and your bracelet of song.) Fact is, the invention of ...
New York City Jazz Radio Personality Weighs In On "Curioso"
(CHARLOTTE, NC)—Helen Little, the midday DJ for WLTW-FM (106.7) in New York City, recently reviewed Curioso, the all-original jazz CD by Marc Hoffman that Virillion Music released this year. Her comments underscored the eclectic intention of the compilation. Of the title track, “Curioso," Little said: “'Curioso' is one of my more favored. It was bright, fun, ...
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