Former Songwriters Guild of America manager pleads guilty
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Laissez Faire In The Studio
Forget Autotune, forget multi-tracking. The very best producers in the history of recorded music identified raw talent — and got out of the way.
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At some point, I seriously have to undertake a study of why it is — culturally — that audiences in the UK adore and embrace new music, while American audiences have to be dragged by the ankles to see a new band.
My latest case study: Orson. These guys are from Hollywood. They sound great. Think [...]
Jeff Jarvis cites Bob Garfield’s assertion that “a million monkeys at a million videocams…” could eventually produce something that approaches Hollywood standards. It wasn’t that long ago that folks thought the same way about home recording studios.
I’ve been in a super-nostalgic mood this week, for some reason, thinking back to some of the first shifts [...]
Can Not Knowing About Contemporary Culture Be A Career Liability?
“Freston got his job as a CEO of Viacom because he was deeply informed about contemporary culture and lost it because he was not informed enough.”
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David Byrne weighs in on SpiralFrog
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Lefsetz has a gloriously cynical look at this week’s sales. Pay close attention to what he says about the effects of an $18.98 list price, and the fact that publicity does not equal sales. Also note that a Guns & Roses greatest hits collection is blowing the doors off everything other than the 70-some records [...]
Jordan Knight is Coming Back Hard – On QVC
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Technology News: Social Networking: Music Scene May Be Unchanged by MySpace Move
It *will* take a long time for a critical mass of folks to buy music on MySpace. However, an early wave of folks will go nuts when they earn their first $100 from the service, [...]
The false fight between fun and business
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Billy Bragg’s back in the news today, calling out MTV for a poorly worded contract that appears to give Viacom unlimited rights to do anything with any content uploaded to its new Flux service.
While Flux and other social media outlets might have only the best intentions at heart, it’s important for you to scrutinize the [...]
Maybe you and your bandmates aren’t athletic enough to dance on treadmills like OK Go, but you can probably move some Lego bricks around…
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…and so very difficult to sell one thousand.
Grant Robertson’s on fire over at the Digital Music Weblog, and he’s totally right about the pricing of online downloads. Fifteen years ago, if you had to get your hands on a rare/obscure/import disc, you had to pay more. When I moved back to Ithaca, New York after [...]
