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…
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How YouTube’s Making Indie Music Look Better — But Not How You’d Expect
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…
links for 2006-09-08
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.” (tags: musicbusiness) David Byrne…
5,000 Records Is All You Need
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 &…
links for 2006-09-07
Jordan Knight is Coming Back Hard – On QVC (tags: musicbusiness) 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.…
links for 2006-09-06
The false fight between fun and business (tags: fun business)
Why Billy Bragg’s Fight Against Bad Contracts Matters
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…
OK Lego
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…
It’s Easy to Sell a Million CDs
…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…
Juliana Hatfield Lets Fans Run a Tab
She’s launching an honor system and requesting that, in exchange for the downloadable, DRM-free MP3s she’s posting to the site, that fans send in at least 50 cents for each copy they like/keep. [ via The Digital Music Weblog ]
MySpace Teams with Snocap to Help Independent Musicians Sell MP3s
I think this is an overall brilliant move. MySpace has created an audience that’s craving new music, and Snocap’s finally got a business model and a niche that it can use to succeed. However, I want to raise a note…
links for 2006-09-03
MySpace To Sell Music Through Snocap (tags: musicbusiness) Harley Quine (tags: wordpress plugin)