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If Everything in Music Has Changed, Will That Change You?
Earlier today, Digital Music News's Paul Resnikoff posted an alarming quote from an interview with famed film director Francis Ford Coppola. You have to remember that it's only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. Artists never got money. Artists ...
10 Things Musicians Can Learn from Douglas Rushkoff's Program or Be Programmed
[Editor's Note: The following guest post is by Marc Weidenbaum.] In an age of digital downloads, virtual instruments, and social-media fandom, everybody, musicians especially, must learn how technology is controlled. People who fail to do that run the risk of leaving themselves open to manipulation—i.e., to being controlled. That anxiety-stoking thesis is central to a new ...
Why Creating a Perfect Digital Music Service is Really, Really Hard
If you've ever wondered why these dadgum deals involving cloud music or Spotify or eMusic or whoever seem to take forever, well, this will be of great interest to you. At MIDEM this week, Music Ally put on something called a Music Licensing Crash Test, in which ...
You Have to Network, but You Can't Engage in "Networking"
If “networking" seems unnatural, it might be because you're doing it for the wrong reasons. The other day, How to Run a Band's Seth Jackson ran an interview with Whiskey Tango about getting their music featured in a film. At the very bottom, Jackson posted a brief (but true) takeaway: they networked with friends that happened ...
Play Along with Records the Right Way with Jammit
Some of the greatest musicians of our time learned their instruments by trial and error: playing along with their favorite records, imitating what they heard other players doing, and just trusting their ears. Today, thanks to Jammit, there's not only an app for that. There's an app that makes that process so much more helpful. Created ...
What Are You Hiding? An Easter Eggs Primer for Musicians
One of the greatest ways to engage your fans is to play with them. Before you get any dirty ideas in your head, allow me to explain. On Wednesday, Andrew W.K.'s twitter followers got into a tizzy because their favorite party/animal motivational speaker has started hiding samples of his new air freshener around New York and ...
The Basics of Remixing, Part Four: Show Me the Money...Or Not!
Welcome to the latest installment of Production Tips, our new monthly feature offering, well, production tips, hosted by Simon Langford. Last time we looked at ways in which you can get remix parts (most often vocal stems or a capellas) in order to start building your own showreel. This would then enable you to approach labels ...
2010 Highlights: Best Festival Content
Professionals in the music industry love to get together to share ideas with each other. After all, like The Beatles sang, we get by with a little help from our friends. Festivals and conferences this year have been fantastic ways to network with all sorts of people and learn from each other. We were lucky enough ...
Best Production Tips
One of the biggest coups we had this year was securing the services of Simon Langford. If you don't follow dance music, Langford's name might not ring a bell. But Langford, who's produced several top 20 hit remixes, including official releases for artists like Britney Spears and Rihanna, knows his way around a studio, and we've ...
2010 Highlights: Best Guest Posts
Ever since this site launched back in March, we've spent a lot of time trying to solicit expert advice. As a new site, this can be difficult. People had no idea who we were, and they were upset by our constant begging, by our late night phone calls, by the oil-smeared, battered boxes we'd leave on ...
