Rock icon (and one of my former bosses) Todd Rundgren is back with his first album in ten years. The Sun-Times helps him lay the guilt trip on all the labels he pitched pay-per-download to back in the day… “When…
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Joe Taylor Jr.
Indie Music Needs To Cheer The Hell Up
A column from the most recent Flagpole Magazine has the best title I’ve read in forever.
Indie Music Store Owner Steps Up Fight Against Chains
In another example of music businesses leveraging their community resources, here’s a story of one business owner who points out that $45 of every $100 you spend at an indie record shop stays in your local community, versus $13 from…
5,000 Downloads
My head’s been so underwater, I missed this study that’s been causing buzz in the blogosphere. According to a UNC researcher (and others), it takes 5,000 peer to peer downloads to “displace” one retail sale of a CD. And, as…
diyTunes
If you’re determined not to take advantage of some of the great offers for digital distribution on the market, you can check out a new book about placing your independent music on the iTunes service. As always, it’s still up…
My Bloody Royalty Checks
Kevin Shields conducts a rare interview, in which he reveals that his five-song contribution to the “Lost in Translation” soundtrack will make him a millionaire — far, far more money than he ever earned with the groundbreaking band My Bloody…
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Online Music Shakeout
Scrambling over tight profit margins, online music stores are merging or selling themselves off. Remember that the reason iTunes grabbed so much market share is because their focus is on selling hardware — the music is a break-even proposition for…
Better Living Through Advertising
More evidence that a shortcut to major success for indie musicians is getting a song placement in a high profile commercial. Music supervisors are hungrier than ever for under-the-radar music, and would rather do a straight deal with an indie…
Why would anybody buy a record here?
That’s the question independent music store owners have to ask themselves — and answer — in order to survive.
I call Bullshiat!
This is exactly the kind of article that lulls baby bands into believing that they can be transfigured by a single show. What happens at SXSW is carefully staged — bands are slotted to make their debuts as major label…
Radio = Irrelevant. Labels = Irrelevant.
Music and radio veteran Gerry Cagle writes today about how major labels stopped caring about good music and made themselves stop mattering to millions of their customers. And radio, Cagle says, is about to find itself in an even worse…