links for 2006-10-06
ZoomLicense: Finally a way for indies to license pop music? (tags: musicbusiness)
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links for 2006-09-28
PERFORM act will kill Internet Radio (tags: musicbusiness) Is WOXY saved? (tags: music) Netwerk’s Barenaked Ladies are rolling in gross sales (tags: musicbusiness)
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links for 2006-09-26
Former Clash manager says music business must ‘change or die’ (tags: musicbusiness)
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links for 2006-09-23
The Knack sues RunDMC, 27 years after the fact (tags: musicbusiness) Dreams of Stardom and Making a Living (tags: musicbusiness)
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links for 2006-09-22
YouTube/Cingular Deal (tags: musicbusiness) Choosing The Songs To Put On Your Upcoming Record – By Brandon Drury (tags: musicbusiness) Sonific Moves to Public Beta free flash players for MySpace, blogs, and bulletin boards from the author of “The Future of…
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links for 2006-09-21
Music dealers find creative outlets (tags: musicbusiness) Copyright reform: In the digital age (tags: musicbusiness) Free Music Downloading: Legal vs. Illegal (tags: musicbusiness)
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links for 2006-09-20
Begging Forgiveness (tags: musicbusiness)
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links for 2006-09-19
YouTube Announces New Copyright Tracking System (tags: musicbusiness)
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Rock Star Supernova Finale
We’re just back from some time with family in Florida, so this post is a few days late: I’m pretty psyched that Lori nailed the final two contestants from Rock Star: Supernova way back on opening night. At the time,…
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links for 2006-09-18
Radio companies scramble as listeners tune out (tags: musicbusiness) The Shins want you to record a live show (tags: musicbusiness) Award Nominations Scott’s nominated for some JPF Awards! (tags: musicbusiness) Ars Technica Comments on Proposed New York Rules Which Would…
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links for 2006-09-16
Deaf and dumb “I’d pay to see you face your artists â€??? 50 Cent, Eminem, Elvis Costello, BB King, LL Cool J, Chris Rock, et al â€??? and call them “softwareâ€?? to their faces.” (tags: musicbusiness)
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links for 2006-09-14
Radio Airplay in 7 Days (tags: musicbusiness) Don’t confuse celebrities with heroes. (tags: musicbusiness)
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Idea: 180-Day Music Business Success Plan
A few months ago, I asked my readers to tell me what kind of project I should take on next. I was pretty surprised by the result. An astonishing number of musicians asked me to compile all of my most…
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links for 2006-09-12
BNL’s Steven Page weighs in on Spiral Frog (tags: musicbusiness)
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links for 2006-09-10
Former Songwriters Guild of America manager pleads guilty (tags: musicbusiness) 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. (tags:…
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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…
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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.…
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links for 2006-09-06
The false fight between fun and business (tags: fun business)
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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…
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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…
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links for 2006-09-03
MySpace To Sell Music Through Snocap (tags: musicbusiness) Harley Quine (tags: wordpress plugin)
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links for 2006-09-02
EMI says “Let it be”, The Beatles ask court for “Help” (tags: musicbusiness) SpiralFrog Misses the Point of Digital Music (tags: musicbusiness)
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links for 2006-09-01
Poet’s love letter is a hoax If you ever thought musicians could be mean to each other, look at what goes on between rival poetry biographers! RIAA “Back to School” Message Attacked as Misleading …and don’t even get us started…
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links for 2006-08-31
Colbert on pop culture: It’s Crumbelievable! “Why can’t awesome be what music executives say it is?” (tags: musicbusiness) What’s Next, Ramen Noodles? If guitar tab sites can be shut down, can a ramen noodle clampdown be far behind? (tags: musicbusiness)…
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links for 2006-08-29
Wired looks at Nettwerk’s Terry McBride (tags: musicbusiness) Free Song Download: Weird Al Yankovic Comes Out With Song & Animated Film Parody of RIAA : “Don’t Download This Song” (tags: musicbusiness) Names, Numbers & Big Breaks If you’re waiting for…
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links for 2006-08-27
22 Lessons from Wayne Dyer (tags: powerfulthought)
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links for 2006-08-25
Taylor Hicks sues former producer for selling old songs on iTunes (tags: musicbusiness) Meet Some Of My MySpace Friends, errr… Spammers (tags: myspace) Beck Makes the Infinite Album Todd Rundgren did this, too. Just about a decade too soon.
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Blogging’s light, because… well… look at this.
Multimedia message Originally uploaded by spinme. I’m working on location with a client this week in a beautiful part of the country. California, to be exact, and that’s Lake Tahoe in the distance. No broadband where we’re at, so I’m…
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links for 2006-08-24
Singing in the shower was never meant to come to this (tags: gadgets) “I cannot believe the future of music is giving it away” | Digital Copyright Canada (tags: musicbusiness)
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links for 2006-08-23
Cut rate downloads won’t stop piracy (tags: piracy downloads) Tower Falls (tags: tower+records) Indie Music Industry – Radio, It Aint What It Used To Be (tags: musicbusiness) PODCAST: Gerd Leonhard on why attention–not content–is king (tags: musicbusiness) The Way It…
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links for 2006-08-22
Cut rate downloads won’t stop piracy (tags: piracy downloads)
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Interpol Signs Major Label Deal with Capitol Records
Though it might have seemed that Interpol was already on a major label, it was really a solid critical and fan presence that elevated them to today’s deal. Selling nearly a million records on Matador Records had something to do…
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Musicians Fascinate UK Youngsters
By Brian Farley In the UK for the last 18 years at least, a whole generation has been virtually starved of live musicians for a variety of reasons. The advent of computers being a standard household utility with their accompanying…
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Meet You Halfway
Random, non music-biz fun for a Sunday…
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How to use unconventional musical instruments to make a classic sound, or vice versa.
While technology lets you do some amazing things on stage, the power of your songs can sometimes be muted when your audience focuses too much on the gimmick. It doesn’t sound like this is the case for Pamela Z and…
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Hawthorne Heights Sues Victory Records Over Downloads, Ringtones
New media, same old hijinx. Tony Brummel’s been vocal about his distaste for selling individual downloads, to the point of refusing to let some of his acts sell music on iTunes. Now, there’s news that Hawthorne Heights is accusing Brummel…
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How to Get the Best from Your Relationship With a Stage Manager
Annette Warren’s got a great article up at GoGirlsMusic about how to be a good stage manager, and how musicians can get the most out of a working relationship with a stage manager. In my experience, the musicians that are…
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Three Vital Things to Know Before You Can Succeed in the Music Business
We have a lot of new readers rolling through the site this week, so I thought I’d sum up my philosophy on how to make money making music. I just typed out a quick note to one of the members…
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Record labels halt shipments to Tower Records
I think a tipping point for my love of music was the first time I visited the Piccadilly Circus store of Tower Records in 1992. Up until then, my record retail experience was limited to the awful chain stores around…
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Even Lindsay Lohan Needs to Promote Her Record Release
I guess she thought it would sell itself? Guess not… UK label just dropped her, because she “couldn’t be bothered to get off her bum and promote it.”
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Swimming Upstream: Can Musictoday Help Live Nation Get Back On Track?
Coran Capshaw was on to something when he founded Musictoday as a connector between fans, artists, and venues. Taking what he learned from the successful fan club he built for Dave Matthews, he and his team have been building solid…
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Do radio stations use peer-to-peer technology?
Ray Beckerman’s looking for evidence that the record industry actively uses BitTorrent, Kazaa, or other P2P platforms to get tracks to radio stations. While I doubt that there’s a studio executive who would authorize such a thing (on paper), it…
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A person’s personality is their art.
Since my little vacation, I’ve been meaning to write something up based on a recent comment. I linked to a debate about whether to put your own face on your album cover. The business consensus says, “no.” And the reality,…
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Avoiding Music Business Scams (Or, it’s Partly Cloudy with a 90% Chance of Cra-Zeee!)
It’s almost like our own version of the swallows returning to Capistrano. Over in the comments, some folks are stirring the pot around a cabal of companies that we have repeatedly called out for separating working musicians from their cash…
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Is BurnLounge a Ripoff?
I had a great conversation with a professional network marketer during my trip to Philly and the Jersey Shore. We agreed that the very best opportunities to make money require lots of hard work, but shouldn’t necessarily involve an upfront…
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Wired Declares the End of the Blockbuster Album
And they’re not far off, with a piece describing just how much technology and legislation have caused frangmentation in the music marketplace. If not for Sheryl Crow and OutKast, this decade might be devoid of monster record releases. You can…
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Big Tree Goes Down at 7th and Clement
I love our new neighborhood in Charlotte. Apparently, the tree in front of our neighbors’ house feels compelled to escape. This 100 year old tree came down during last night’s fireworks display, totalling three of our neighbors’ cars but mercifully…
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Harry Fox Agency to administer download royalties for IODA.
Huge news. HFA’s making it easier and easier still for songwriters to get paid.
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Billy Bragg Sets MySpace Straight
I’ll admit to my seedy past… I once worked at a place where we used a dubious legal release that, if one looked at it at the right angle, could be interpreted to give my employer ownership of any music…
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What if lack of net neutrality dictated your playlist?
I honestly hadn’t thought about this until now… If the record industry, which has used payola and co-op dollars for decades to squeeze small artists out of radio playlists and off of record store shelves, could actually pay cable and…