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| Make Our Video
by: Mike King
Radiohead and I share a couple of things in common. We both love Bill Hicks (Paul Kolderie got me backstage in 2002 where I got to talk to Jonny Greenwood about Bill), but more importantly we are both interested in user-generated content. I really liked the "Nude" remix idea where different "stems" of the song (vocals, drums, guitar etc) could be downloaded, remixed, and then entered into a contest on http://radiohea...
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| I Take Back All That Bad Stuff I Said About SoundExchange (And So Should You)
by: Ben Snyder
In the summer of 2007 news that the Copyright Royalty board was set to raise the amount Internet radio webcasters paid in performance royalties hit the Internet.
The Huffington Post, Ars Technica, ...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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&#...
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| 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:...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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