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If Only the Industry Had Licensed Napster. and Other Industry Fairy Tales...
(#musicindustry) If only the labels had licensed Napster, then everything would have been different. How many times have you heard that one before? Well, it's a complete revisionist fantasy, and Jim Griffin and Audiogalaxy just proved it. Because even if ol' Hilary Rosen and the RIAA gang were the most tech-forward visionary, they would have still ...
Horns and Hormones
By Steve Provizer Getting married tends to take a guy out of the blog loop, but like Freddie Kruger, I manage to stay alive for the sequels... I just finished reading “Hotter Than That," sub-titled “The Trumpet, Jazz and American Culture." I might add-"That's Awfully Grandiose For A Book That Slices Off Such A Teeny Tiny ...
Dance Music and the Joys of the No BS! Brass Band
"Jazz is dance music," Wynton Marsalis wrote in program notes earlier this year. “If it doesn't sound good, people won't want to dance to it. And if you can't dance to it, then it's not jazz." The statement, separating jazz and “not jazz," is the kind of shot-across-the-bow that Marsalis delights in lobbing at hostile parties, ...
No Shoe-Strings Attached, Unless They're Converse
No one cares what record label paid for an album. Fans are oblivious to whether EMI, Warner Music Group, or Sony Music had their hands on it. The day is coming when fans might have to care. Converse plans to build a recording studio called Rubber Tracks in New York City. Bands will be able to ...
MTT: Do Music Fans Have Too Much Control?
At Music Think Tank, Kyle Bylin asks readers if fans have too much control. He brings the discussion from the Click Track blog on The Washington Post. Some artists have given fans more control by allowing fans to fund their albums. Television shows like American Idol give fans the control to pick the next music superstar. ...
Why I Secretly Hope for an Epidemic of Book Piracy
In his column in The Telegraph, writer Adrian Hon makes a few assertions about book piracy that relate to the record industry. First, he talks about the rather honest journey that a number of readers take into the practice of downloading books, much like fans do with music. It starts with the notion of getting a ...
Correspondence: About Mark Murphy
Mark Murphy may have had his problems the past few years, but rumors that he is not singing well appear to be unfounded. Rifftides reader and occasional correspondent Jim Brown sent a report with evidence.A year or two ago, there were suggestions that Mark was in bad health, perhaps had dementia, and that he might not ...
Should New Albums Cost $1?
Rob Dickens, a former Warner Music executive, told BCC News that he thinks music prices should be radically reduced. He thinks that is albums were marked down to $1, sales would explode. If fans wanted a new album, they'd just go buy it. At a time when some in the industry are worried about fans thinking ...
The 9 Biggest Dinosaurs in the Music Industry Today...
Regardless of their impressive accomplishments in the past, these dinosaurs are still living in 1982—or, wish they were living in 1982. Here are the largest of the Jurassic pontificators... (1) Gene Simmons In the wake of a woefully-unsuccessful legal campaign against music fans, Simmons blamed the labels for lacking the “balls" to sue every “freckle-faced college ...
My Conversation with Wind.
By Matt Lavelle Sometimes my worlds come together. Even NYC feels the change of the seasons at times.We actually had tornadoes touch down in Queens and Brooklyn recently,ripping up and throwing trees around,.causing electrical mayhem.The last few days I've been in wind gusts blowing new yorkers right into traffic.(Stand next to a mailbox if it gets ...
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