“ However, he did confirm that Rhapsody will add a feature that lets blogs and other sites embed full songs from Rhapsody, similar to imeem’s offering. As long as a particular user hasn’t reached the 25-song limit, they’ll be able to listen to the song in full via Rhapsody 25, whereas some of imeem’s songs are only embeddable in 30-second samples.
Ball of Sounds
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June 30, 2008
June 17, 2008
“ JEFF LEEDS: I think that sort of transparency, where we’re all declaring our positions publicly, is here to stay. In music it means that all these little tribes and congregations of fans can mobilize in really powerful ways. And that in turn is contributing so much to the changes you see in the relationship between the artists and the machinery, the industry underneath and around them. It’s a crucial space to watch. I always think of music as Patient Zero in all the disorder that is changing everything in entertainment and media, including, by the way, newspapers. It’s worth paying close attention.
June 10, 2008
Engage your fans across the web from one place. ArtistData empowers musicians and music organizations to extend their reach and do less data entry.
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They make tour date entry, a breezey. And go vote for what sites they should hook up next.
1 year ago
April 23, 2008
“ When we approached the major record label decision makers in order to obtain licenses for some of the music in their catalogs we have routinely faced demands for very large cash advances and fixed per-stream minimum payments, pressure to give them ‘free’ company equity, and requirements of utterly bizarre usage restrictions. It seems that the industry’s major stakeholders still prefer this turf to remain unlicensed rather than to allow real-life, workable and market-based solutions to emerge by working with new companies such as Sonific. This is not the way forward.
April 13, 2008
“ Here, it’s simple: You can contact just about anyone you want. The only rule is you need to contact them personally, with respect, and do it months before you need their help! Contact them about them, not about you. Engage. Contribute. Question. Pay attention. Read. Interact.
April 11, 2008
At EMI, could digital music kill the 'record' promo? | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
Interesting article on EMI’s digital-before-physical approach to marketing Yelle in the US.
1 year ago
April 10, 2008
Online Fandom » Sharp Insights into Indie Music Fandom
“Fonarow is an anthropologist, and she draws on theories of ritual and aesthetics to argue (and I don’t begin to do her argument justice) that essentially the indie gig is serving as a music-based trance-like coming-of-age ritual akin to drum-based rituals you see all the time in places like Africa. During the ritual transformation, fans come of age as they gradually start to become more protective of their bodies and practical about other life-responsibilities and move from the front of the stage (pure feeling) to the back of the room or leave altogether (adulthood).”
1 year ago
April 8, 2008
“ In other words, not paying for In Rainbows today is helping people eliminate the balance they still owe for buying Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness when they were broke in 1995.
April 2, 2008
Pretty Goes with Smart: A Rational Look At The Business of Selling Music
Pretty Goes with Pretty: Anyone Can Sell a Product
“Musicians, being the simpletons they are, have connected the dots—all two of them. “If my music is sold in a grocery store, I should make a deal with a grocer. If my music is sold in coffeehouse, I should make a deal with the coffeehouse. If my music is being downloaded outside of any bricks-and-mortar establishment, accessed directly by my fans, I should make a deal with my fans.” Thus Paul McCartney signs to Starbucks, the Eagles make an exclusive deal with Wal-Mart, and Trent Reznor makes a million bucks in a week by going straight to his fans.
It is that fucking simple. Music industry stops supporting music retailers; music industry destroys its own niche; music industry renders itself obsolete. If music is nothing more than a product, well fuck dude, anyone can sell a product.”
1 year ago
: Who's Spending on Social Networks?
Illuminating article on the amount of money being spent on social networks.
1 year ago
April 1, 2008
“ The RIAA’s goal is to get from complaint to judgment as quickly as possible. So far the evidence that they have been able to cheaply amass is the shared folder, and if that’s all you need to prove copyright infringement, then it’s very, very easy for the RIAA to generate victories against large numbers of people.
New ruling may “grease the wheels” of RIAA litigation machine
Quote via EFF staff attorney Fred von Lohmann
1 year ago
“ Seemingly none of the skills that propelled the recording industry to bloated, profitable excess in previous eras have any relevance in the current Web-centric economy, so why — nine years after having their milkshakes drunk by a geeky, Napster-inventing college kid — are record labels still hiring only people with music-business backgrounds? Would it kill them to get a nerd or two on staff?
March 28, 2008
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