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An Argument for Fan Funding: "I'd Rather Be Owned by My Fans Than by a Record Company."
Brian Hazard rattled some cages with his argument against fan-funding. So much so that several executives from leading fan-funding companies took notice and weighed in their opinions. I thought it was worth challenging an artist on this matter. Bleu, a singer-songwriter-producer, set a goal of $8,000 for his Kickstarter campaign. Almost overnight, 387 fans jumped into ...
How Garth Brooks Harms Music Incomes of Others
The Copyright Alliance pointed me to a letter that musician Monisa Angell wrote the Obama Administration. If you want to see the arguments in the music industry painted in black and white. Her note is certainly the black. She raises the question, “Can we afford to have a country where the creator has no value?" Well, ...
Sure, Streaming is Better Than Stealing. But Not by Much...
If you're in the music industry, chances are you suck at math. But this one just keeps adding up to zero—and the continued rise of legal streaming is at best a half-baked victory. On top of that, illegal downloading really isn't really going anywhere. This isn't a clear-cut game of displacement, as many seem to think. ...
Plan It or Damn It: Why Album Releases Matter
Album releases can either be a burden or blessing. For major label artists, it is normally an effort coordinated in a matter of months or years. For independent artists not signed to a major label, the biggest decision they face is distribution: physical, digital or both. No matter where an artist fits on the spectrum, an ...
EMI Will Not Die, Says CEO: Calls Journalists "Idiots," for Saying Otherwise
According to CEO Roger Faxon, EMI is having no problem meeting its financial obligations and plans to be around for quite some time. Moses Avalon It must be tough to be Roger Faxon this week. On Monday morning he wakes up to find that not only has his sugar daddy, Terra Firma, lost in court to ...
Grandpa's Rainbow.
By Matt Lavelle Just how and why does anybody dedicate their lives to Art in a fallen world? To make such a choice in 2010 would be over the top from my perspective.When I was a kid in the 70's I had no idea that the gentrification express was all ready rolling along and that standards ...
Junko Simons Cello Magic.
Ms. Simons with Tom Plsek, (Courtesy of Thomas Simons) Ms Simons has made major contributions to the quality of my life as a music gallery gnome. She brings out the best in her collaborators and rides a whirlwind of activity teaching and performing in the region. What brought you to music? “I come from a family ...
"Jazz Cops on Patrol"
By Steve Provizer So, my band is working toward the out-chorus of “All of Me," when this stocky guy with a crew cut comes up to the stage. He's a tough looking mug, wearing a blue drum major hat with “this space for rent" written on his forehead. “Alright," he says to the drummer, “Put those ...
The Importance of Living and Connecting in Person
Too often, artists and professionals use digital media to make local connections, forgetting that tweets and text messages are poor substitutes for real human beings. By keeping our digital devices always on, we enable ourselves to be dislocated. In the presence of others, it's now commonplace to connect to elsewhere. A message arrives and to keep in touch ...
"Jazz 911: Rescuing the Great American Songbook"
By Steve Provizer When you reach into the faux-velvet bag, there's a feeling of infinite possibility inspired by the virgin letters nestled inside. But you can only get that feeling after you've swept the last set of painstakingly-created words off the Scrabble board. Oddly, I went through the same process when I read Peter Ven Der ...
