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| Who Rocks the Party? iLife Rocks the Party!
by: Mike King
I arrived pretty late to the Apple party (I was all PC all the time prior to 2003), but now, I feel like I should be a paid spokesman for the company. There’s really no need for me to mention how Apple is revolutionizing the way people buy and listen to music. But what I have been into lately is the iLife bundle that comes with all Macs (and is available for purchase for a cheap price). iLife combines several popular apps – Garageband, iWeb, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie ...
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| Technology for Music Educators
by: Debbie Cavalier
These days, the resources for music educators to get up-and-running with a technology-infused curriculum are vast. There are online courses, books, magazines, Web sites, workshops, and even organizations soley devoted to helping music educators become technologically savvy and avail themselves to the tools of technology for the music classroom.
As Andrew Surmani, Vice President at Alfred Publishing, states in his August 2006 ...
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| Have a Great Program!
by: Debbie Cavalier
That’s what Sandy Feldstein, music education luminary and CEO of PlayinTime Productions, suggests as the best way to foster advocacy for your music program in his August 2006 Artists House interview.
Sandy believes parents will rally behind and solicit support for a music program that benefits their children. One of the best advocacy tools you can have is an excellent music program. There is a wealth of advo...
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| So Long Tower, So Long Virgin, It's Been Good To Know You
by: Mike King
I live in Boston. Ever since I was kid I’ve been traveling to the Corner of Mass. Ave and Newbury to go record shopping at Tower and Newbury Comics. Tower was great when I wanted to go deep into the Jazz world – the selection was amazing, and the staff was great at directing me towards artists that I might be into (which for several years was the single-note jazz guitarists of the ‘30s-‘60s - Charlie Christian, Django, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, and Kenny Bu...
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| The Ethics of
by: George Howard
You know there’s a reason there are so many derogatory terms used to describe networking. People call it schmoozing or gladhanding or butt-kissing for a reason…it’s kind of gross. Have you ever stopped to wonder why most (not all, but most) people feel a little distressed about having to “network?” Well, I’ll tell you why. It’s because basically you’re using people. You’re treating them as a means to an end, rather than treating them as an end in and of...
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| Goodbye to the Freewheelin
by: George Howard
Copyrighted files being removed at a rapid rate
And so it begins, not even a week after the acquisition of YouTube by Google, the days of, shall we say, laissez faire attitudes regarding copyright infringement appear to be ending. Today, Yahoo is reporting that 30,000 ...
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| Would this Fall Under Both Eating and Having Cake?
by: George Howard
3 of the 4 major labels quietly took a stake in YouTube just prior to its sale to Google, and now will split a $50mm windfall.
The NYT is reporting that WMG, Universal, and Sony all took small stakes in YouTube prior to its sale to Google (uh, EMI…paging, EMI…some poor EMI CFO is really no...
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| Obituary: Tower Records
by: George Howard
It’s hard to believe and painful to accept that this once great retailer is no more. On Friday, October 6th, however, a federal judge approved the sale of Tower to the Great American Group. Great American is a liquidator, and they will begin selling off Tower’s assets. So, yes, it’s true, Tower is gone.
While, of course, people will say that Tower is a victim of downloading/piracy/competition from video games for the consumer’s en...
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| David Byrne
by: George Howard
David Byrne, founding member of the Talking Heads, label owner, and general music business presence, gives a great interview regarding the current state of the industry. Byrne makes the point that while technological innovation creates efficiency for the savvy artist, technology alone cannot enable you to have a successful career. Rather, many of the same practices that the Talking Heads utilized to become one of the most important and successful bands in the history of...
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