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| Editorial Sept 2007
by: John Snyder
Hello everyone, greetings from Artists House. We have some new content for you to consider.
Chris Horvath, Berkleemusic instructor and founder / creative director of Jamnation Music has contributed two pieces for us. His publishing piece, Why Music Publishing? talks about how musicians who makes their business a publishing business first are putting themselves in much greater control ...
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| State of the Music Business 8/27/07
by: George Howard
It's important to situate yourselves in the context of the music industry in order to move forward with any purpose. It's as if - God forbid - you're at a mall, and you look at one of their maps with the little arrow and red dot that says, "You are here."
The reason you have to do this - now more than ever - is because the landscape is changing so quickly that in order to capitalize on the opportunities that emerge from disruption, you must know where you are....
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| Does Street Date Still Matter?
by: Mike King
The Arts and Crafts label is a good example of a label that understands the importance of a brand. Much the same as Stones Throw, I know that 9 times out of 10 I’ll be into what the label puts out. Maybe it’s the fact that more than half the bands on the label have members who play with Broken Social Scene (who are great), but I like to think that they have a particular aesthetic and musical taste that mirrors mine. It makes me want to support them and buy their records/downloads.
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| Memories of Max Roach
by: John Snyder
I knew Max Roach pretty well for 10 years or so. I recorded him in several situations and spent some time at his house in Massachusetts when his twins were 4 years old and in his apartment on the upper west side of Manhattan. He was a complex man, angry but relaxed, certain but insecure, regal yet petty, but always a man of strength and purpose, determination and seriousness. He could be very sweet and he could be very angry but he was always strongly opinionated, informed and curious. Ma...
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| The (growing) Cost of Doing Business
by: Mike King
There may be more music produced now than ever, but it certainly is not getting any cheaper to promote it to traditional outlets. David from Digital Audio Insider has written a great piece about the realities of servicing your record to press and radio. College radio is relatively untainted by the consolidation and lack of diversity that haunts commercial radio, and is a good option for independent bands that appeal to the 18-24 demographic. The same can be said for press, who generally re...
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| Editorial, August 5, 2007
by: John Snyder
It looks like the music business may survive the summer, more or less. We’ve added some new content and developing our “TV” idea that would allow you (and us) to create our own channels chosen by subject or topic. It remains to be seen if our users will take to the idea of a 1-4 hour stream about a copyright law, for example. We make our video clips short, but sometimes an hour-long “class” can actually teach you something.
Speaking of which, we are also working on a twice-w...
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| Webcasting News
by: George Howard
There’s a tremendous amount of sound and fury around the webcasting issue – hard to know what (if anything) it’s signifying. If you need to be brought up to speed, check out the articles I've written about the issue here and here.
D-day for the new rates to be imposed—effectively killing webcasters great and small (from the kid in the dorm room to ...
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| Record Keeping with IRENE
by: Debbie Cavalier
Those of us who grew up with vinyl records know how very delicate they are. The shelf life degrades with every touchdown of the arm and needle. Preserving a record meant not playing it. Scratched and broken records were simply of no use. But now, thanks to the genius of physicist Carl Haber, the rules have changed... Meet IRENE!
IRENE uses a camera and scanning system to reconstruct classic recordings from the original version, without ever touching the record. According to ...
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| AHM July 16, 2007
by: John Snyder
July 15, 2007
We’ve added some new content and new functionality, and are about to announce our Artists House TV network.
There are several new articles for those of you interested in home recording and mixing. Jeff Baus...
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| Smashing Pumpkins and Independent Retail
by: Mike King
So the great ‘indie’ band The Smashing Pumpkins is back to form with a record that mimics the sounds of their classic Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie records. Excellent news for fans of Billy Corgan, who have had the misfortune of only receiving relatively dismal solo and super group (Zwan) offerings from Corgan and Co. for the past 10 years.
However, all is not good in the land of the great pumpkin. Even though Billy attempted play the local card in a full page ad in the Chi...
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