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Democratize Your Office Music Listening Sessions
Everyone knows that good music makes you work better. Bad music, on the other hand, kills your groove. And there's no perfect way to democratize office music listening sessions, because we all like different stuff. The Breakfast company has set out to make your cubicle life better. They've released Pandora and Last.fm branded station-rating terminals. Now ...
Epic Gives Up the Ghost: Gal President is Fired for Smoking Pot and Being a Bitch
Is the firing of Epic President, Amanda Ghost a sign that women are the new scapegoat for the “failing" music biz? Ah, what happened to the days when being a music executive meant you could party with the acts in your office, sleep late, yell at underlings and get rewarded even if your numbers were bad? ...
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 ...
Jazzwax List: Pardon My Bop
If you're familiar with the music of the Doors, then you know that Jim Morrison was a fairly competent lyricist, in a drug-haze sort of way. His Warren Beatty looks made him highly charismatic, and his deep, masculine voice and bedroom eyes had a particularly hypnotic effect on women. On March 1, 1969, a stoned Morrison, ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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