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MTT: Why Fans Are File-Sharing Your Music
To continue the discussion on file-sharing, Kyle Bylin has written a post on 4 reasons why fans are file-sharing that can't be changed. He brings up the point of Decision Paralysis. Fans are faced with even more choices than ever and end up file-sharing music to cope with the paralysis. Fans also file-share when they feel ...
Ask the Readers: Should We Write About Music?
Recently, it was pointed out to me in the comments section that for all our coverage about the industry of music and the technology that's changing it, Hypebot doesn't write about any music. For minute, I paused and thought rather seriously about the potential of writing about music on the blog and how it might be ...
Downloading Music is Forgettable, Buying It Wasn't
For most of my life, buying music included a pilgrimage. The closest place that sold CDs took an hour drive to get there. I still have a few memories of the trips I would undertake on Tuesdays just to get my hands on a new album. While I never got to experience the thrill of waiting ...
Into the Spotlight and Moving Ahead
In less than a week, we saw significant attention spotlighting two jazz artists. There's one to watch for on the vocal scene. The other we saw recognized for his decade of moving the music forward while embracing contemporary influences. Ladies first as they say, no matter than the honors are chronologically skewed. On October 4 in ...
How Do You Divide up Royalties?
The following post was written by Sami Fischer, the lead singer of Viennese rock band My Glorious. You can view his previous work here] You start a band for the fun of it and the love of music. You're idealistic about it: you travel, play for free, invest your time and money into it and fight ...
Why Amazon Is Unfair To Independent Musicians
To Whom It May Concern: An Independent Musicians Rant Sony Holland's new CD Sanssouci is available at CD Baby, iTunes and yes... Amazon. Dear Amazon, I have purchased a lot of products from your site so I thought it would be great to have you sell my CDs. Unfortunately, it just isn't working out so well. ...
"Like, so Not Swingin', Gate"
By Steve Provizer Yankee Dog mentioned Frank Gorshin's hep cat role in “Where the Boys Are." I have no doubt that there's a large sub-division of the Academic Culture Industry that has chewed on the subject of jazz/beat portrayals in film and TV like a chia pet on a licorice rope. But boys, if you're reading, ...
'Most Ways That Artists Try to Earn Money Will Fail.'
Guardian columnist Helienne Lindvall had some choice words for the proprietors of free last week. Among those charged with misleading artists and telling them to give everything away for free was Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing. Funny thing is, Doctorow is a Guardian columnist too. So, when accused of charging high speaking fees on one ...
Music Would Suck Less if You Savored It More
Jeff Pollack, CEO of Pollack Media Group, made some very interesting assertions in his most recent column at The Huffington Post. In it, he expresses his concern about the number of comments he's received in the last few months that berate the quality of popular music and present that as reasoning behind the decline in the ...
Dear Walter Pincus: Music is a Not a Waste of Money
Walter Pincus, an award winning journalist from the Washington Post, has recently been suggesting that Military Bands are a waste of taxpayer dollars.I must respectfully disagree. Here's how: By asking the following questions . . . Is it a waste of taxpayer dollars to instill a little patriotism, with some John Philip Sousa, and see my ...
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