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A Tale of Two Press Releases - Who Is A Musician to Believe?
Two very different lobbying groups would like your support over [...]
Wired editor Chris Anderson finds music biz veteran Bob Lefsetz a little exasperating, but points out yesterday’s post about sweat equity among independent musicians. Labels don’t understand the economics of online music, because there’s not much in it to support their current overhead costs.
To make the accounting work, major labels need acts that can [...]
Indie Bands Reach New Sales Heights Through iTunes
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Superstar guitarist Satriani reflects upon industry changes
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Shake-up in music business with the breakup of the album
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Rachel Platten: Launching The Band
What do you need to succeed? “Balls. Serious Balls.”
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UPDATE 4.4.07: American Idol Songwriting Competition Signups Open!!
We figured as much, but reality blurred points us to an interview with American Idol Executive Producer Ken Warwick, who tells TV Week that “it still may happen, but at the moment, it’s on the back burner.”
If the reaction on our own site is any indication, American Idol [...]
Via Bob, I learned about this interesting attempt to game the downloadable singles chart, the way that authors often do at Amazon.com. By coordinating a whole lot of purchases through iTunes, the organizers hope to land a podsafe single by a band that has been dumped from two major label contracts onto the charts.
Here’s what [...]
Nancy’s got some great coverage of artists who are discovering that they’ve got to migrate their audience away from MySpace onto their own websites so they can really start to benefit from their relationships with fans. Here’s one funny story of an artist who cloned his whole MySpace page on his personal domain, and here’s [...]
Bruce Springsteen Book: For You
One of the cool things from the Springsteen discussion — some fans are putting together a very cool book of personal Bruce experiences.
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American Idol Songwriting Competition Details Getting Clearer
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Getting Made at SXSW
While SXSW is probably the music conference that is most “open” to the public, it’s still a staging ground for new acts, carefully organized by labels that want their recent signings to come off as the “big discovery” of the year. That so much energy goes
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