Wilco’s frontman talks to Wired News about how leaking Yankee Hotel Foxtrot on P2P networks (after their label refused to release it) saved their career. Oh yeah, their new album? At number 8 on Billboard.
Artists still out of the P2P loop…
Ed Felten’s analysis of the recent Penn P2P study attempts to find some common ground between labels who want to retain market value for music and consumers who want to support artists on a sliding scale. In all of the…
Granian and the Grey Lady
Congrats to TCM Client Granian on a superb review in the New York Times! Yes, that’s right. That New York Times. For everyone who’s going to send me an e-mail asking how an independent artist got some column inches in…
The line starts here.
What are you doing today that will someday get folks to wait in line for you?
We are STILL running out of band names…
Audrey brings us today’s cautionary tale of another band that has to go through painful effort and expense to re-brand themselves at the hands of a long-lost trademark owner…
MTV is so over Europe
Is this an unfortunate publicist’s typo, or are the MTV Europe Music Awards really being shown in North America on… MuchMusic?
The Persuaders
Tonight’s episode of Frontline is another must-see. Not because it cover the business of music per se, but because it posits that the more you bombard your customers with a message, the less they’ll respond. That’s certainly what we’ve observed…
Jumping Sharks
The other day, over at IndieBiz.com, I spoke with artist Trevor Levine about avoiding mediocrity without alientating a mainstream audience. It turned out to be one of the most compelling conversations I’ve had in recent months, so I thought I’d…
“When will the music industry do it right?”
Mark Cuban, of broadcast.com, Dallas Mavericks, and The Benefactor, tears off an almost Albini-esque rant about using P2P to generate cash.
The Pope Would Like You To Share Your Music
From a stellar overview of digital rights management, this insight from one of the most influential folks at a major label… Ted Cohen, EMI SVP, believes users who pass around music after paying for it are basically recruiting new fans…
The Economist takes a long view…
From the European perspective, The Economist pegs the failure of major labels on their inability to focus on anything longer term than #1 on TRL. It also looks at ways managers are staking a claim for their clients, to keep…
Get Help With Your Music Business Questions
It’s that time of the month again, when I’ve got slots to work with about a dozen working musicians who want answers to specific music business questions. We’ve got private, thirty minute, one-on-one appointments available, but only while supplies last!