Music News 4-11-08 Slumping album sales,alternative revenues, and new retail models dominate the headlines this week. Music News 4-4-08 Music News 3-28-08 More New Technology Is Already Replacing Radio Farid Einstein: Half is More Radio's Salary Cap New Technology Is Already Replacing Radio The Attention Span Problem Radio's Salary Cap iMac turns 10 Thanks, Trent Harvard Business School professor's wrong way to think about Google Radio's Deadly Game of Beat the Bomb The Attention Span Problem Nine Inch Nails give another album away for free Nine Inch Nails give another album away for free Radiohead -- One and Done Radio's Deadly Game of Beat the Bomb Apple's value is now quadruple Dell's HD and Apple -- Imperfect Together Radiohead -- One and Done Look At Free Music, Look How It Drives Web Traffic To You…. Cell Phones Are Not Transistor Radios

View as a Timeline Starbucks Pulling Out of Day-to-Day Management of Hear Music by: Mike King Hot on the heels of Starbucks warning on Wednesday that they expect their earnings to drop to 15 cents a share (down from 19 cents a year ago) in the fiscal second quarter, Starbucks announced Thursday that they were ceding all management responsibilities for it’s music label, Hear Music to its partner, Concord Music Group. St... Read More Keepin It Real by: Ben Snyder I came of age during the height of gangsta rap. The albums that defined my high school years were 2pac's "Me Against the World" and "All Eyez On Me", Snoop's "Doggystyle", Bone Thugs n Harmony's "E. 1999 Eternal", Biggie's "Ready to Die", Cypress Hill's "Black Sunday" and Wu-Tang's "Enter the 36 Chambers" just to name a few. I even wrote a piece for my freshman English 102 class titled "Lyric... Read More Apple wins! by: Ben Snyder According to a new NPD MusicWatch Survey, and first discussed on ArsTechnica, Apple has for the first time beaten Wal-Mart to become the nation's largest music retailer by capturing 19 percent of the music retail market in January 2008. Wal-mart came in second with 15 percent market share. The day when digital downloads would exceed physical media purchases has long been expected. For the deafest of deaf in the music business, the proof is finally in the pudding. The CD is dead. Th... Read More ¾ Of Major Labels Ink A 360 Deal With MySpace by: Mike King Well, there’s certainly no shortage of news from the major labels lately. Following recent announcements from Warner (who are presenting a vague idea to charge people a flat fee for all the music they care to download from peer-to-peer sites), and Sony/BMG (whose head, Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, revealed that he supports the idea of a DRM-f... Read More Alan McGee on 360 Deals by: George Howard I've felt somewhat alone in my abject disdain for these so-called 360 deals that labels are foisting upon artists. In a nutshell, a 360 deal entitles the label to a piece of pretty much all the revenue streams of the artist (hence the term "360"). Typically, a label would only be entitled to revenue generated from the sale of the records they release. Under a 360 deal, the labels not only get that stream, but also a piece of ticket sales and merch. These 360 deals aren&#... Read More SXSW by: Mike King Whew. Just got back from one of the largest music conferences in the world – SXSW (South By SouthWest) in Austin, TX. It’s like a musical wonderland down there. I was floored by Earthless, These are Powers, A Place to Bury Strangers, Chuck Prophet, Mark Kozelek, Brad Barr, The Peasantry, and in particular, Monotonix, which might have put on one of the most ridiculous/riveting performance I have ever seen. Check them out:... Read More Not on the Test! by: Debbie Cavalier For students and parents who may be stressed out over testing, here’s a lullaby for the times. Grammy Award-winning children’s artist Tom Chapin offers the “Not on the Test” song and video to raise awareness about the importance of music education in all classrooms and to express concern about what is missing from American public education. “Not on the Test,” with music and lyrics by Chapin and his long-time collaborator John Forster, a... Read More Ghosts in the Machine by: Ben Snyder You'll have to excuse me if this editorial seems a little more stream of consciousness than normal. I've been listening to Ghosts I from the new Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts I-IV that I downloaded from the official 'leaked' torrent on The Pirate Bay. "This collection of music is the result of working from a very visual perspective - dressing imagined locations and s... Read More Why I love Tunecore by: Mike King I’ve talked a lot about how TuneCore and CD Baby are great online distribution options for independent bands. The two are set up differently, with CD Baby taking 9% of sales, and TuneCore making money on a $19.98 annual fee plus $.99 per store per record upfront costs. At low sales, there is very little difference between the two services. But at higher sales figures, there’s quite a bit of difference. Eliot Van Buskirk at Wired’s great musi... Read More Teo Macero by: John Snyder In A Silent Way changed everything I thought about the music I loved.  In the early 1970’s I was in law school, pretty much regretting every minute of it.  Listening to In A Silent Way filled my study hours.  After that it was Bitches Brew that filled them.  I was enthralled by the shifting moti... Read More 123456789…next ›last »

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