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How Will Twitch Acquisition Influence YouTube?
By Corey Rice of The AristoMedia Group. YouTube’s acquisition of Twitch has a lot of feathers ruffled over how Google’s influence will affect the social broadcasting gaming site. Will users be forced to login with Google+? Will they have to contend with Google’s voracious content ID system? But the really exciting part of this acquisition is ...
Here are jazz's 12 most important musicians
Herbie Hancock — pianist, composer and maker of musical revolutions — is coming to San Francisco this week (May 16-18) for a series of sold-out shows at SFJazz. With his visit in mind, wheels began to turn: Why not create a list of the dozen greatest living jazz musicians? Hancock would be on it; that was ...
Steve Albini and Damon Albarn on Art, Business and the Internet
Two artists that can always be counted on to say something interesting recently held forth on tech, the internet and the art and business of music in separate interviews. Steve Albini takes a strong and surprisingly positive stance with little room for discussion. Damon Albarn reveals more ambivalence about tech and its effects on our lives. ...
Vinyl is Not Dead (Never Has Been)
Blue Note Records gives vinyl a boost, releasing several classic albums for the Turntable Despite the origin of the CD roughly three decades ago and the more recent digital revolution, the old fashioned “record album," spinning at a rate of 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, never went out off style. Some companies have produced them all ...
Beatles, Oscars, Grammys & Overachieving: The Best Cliché Ever, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
by Carl L. Hager
So... the awards season is over. From the Golden Globes to the Grammys, the Winter Olympics to the Oscars, it's been a long and winding road. Among people competing for the various honors and annual awards, one of the more popular topics of conversation was: OK, let's say I am the winner--what then? Good ...
Why Soundcloud Will Beat Other Streaming Music Services
By Dan Polaske an entrepreneur & blogger. Check out his artists interview series coming soon. Who is the current leader in the streaming service war? Not Spotify. Not Rdio. Not Deezer. Not Beats Music (just launched) The answer: YouTube! Ok so YouTube is not technically a streaming service, however more music is streamed on YouTube than ...
What Is the Future of Jazz in New York?
Being a jazz musician in New York City has never been easy. For most of its century-long existence, jazz has gotten by on the margins, and so have those who’ve played it. But the gloomy consensus last night in a panel discussion at the CUNY Graduate Center was that being a jazz musician in the city ...
5 Ways Major Label Music on Soundcloud Would Be Awesome
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Most of the music services available today have more or less the same music, so they distinguish themselves with third-party apps, free versions, improved designs, mixtape-style playlists, and other attractive features. On-demand music services have the same music (more or less) because the same copyright holders decide which songs to ...
10 Ways Legal Recreational Marijuana Could Help the Music Industry
As Colorado pushes the U.S. a tiny bit closer to rational drug laws, it's high time to consider the potential positive effects on the music industry of legal recreational marijuana. I'll focus my comments on the U.S. and what might happen here if recreational marijuana was legalized. My belief is that such a move could have ...
Who Will Win the Home Music War?
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. The cassette player, compact disc, MP3 player, and today’s smartphones and tablets were all portable music evolutions. Newsflash: Humans are not always in motion. Sometimes — a great deal of the time — we are at home. And yet as a general population, we are all hackers and settlers-for-good-enough in ...
