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| 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...
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| 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...
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| It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye to Yesterday
by: Mike King
I got an email yesterday announcing that one of my favorite magazines is ceasing their publication. I’ve been a fan of No Depression, an amazing pub mostly covering the alt-country world (the magazine was named after the debut record from Uncle Tupelo, the band Jeff Tweedy was in prior to forming Wilco) since 1998 when I started a...
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| Yet another "reason"
by: Debbie Cavalier
A new Harris Interactive executive omnibus poll of senior business leaders shows a positive association between music education with career advancement. Overall, nearly three-quarters of executives (73 percent) were involved in some type of music program while in school.
The October 2007 ...
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| February 13, 2008
by: Mike King
Hello!
We’ve added some new content and features that I’d like to tell you about.
First, we have added a discussion area to the site for our community to interact with one another, promote themselves, and direct questions to our editorial staff. Check out the discussion zone here.
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| How to get your music on iTunes
by: Mike King
With everything that is happening right now with the Copyright Registration Board and the new mechanical royalty rate discussions (which will be the first time ever that rates are set for digital products such as digital downloads, subscription services and ringtones), I thought it might make sense to talk about how you, as an independent musician, can get into the digital music retail game. I did a quick interview for CNN/Fortune last week on t...
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| Guitar Hero Saves the Music Business
by: Ben Snyder
I love the Guitar Hero franchise. Even the 80's version that was only for the ps2 and only had 35 songs but still cost 50 bucks. If you're keeping score, that makes 4 titles for the franchise, to this point. The titles span all major consoles and according to the publisher Activision in the past 26 months the franchise has generated over 1 billion dollars in sales.
Let me put 1 billion dollars in perspect...
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| Synesthesia
by: Debbie Cavalier
The following is not a hot new breaking story. In fact, it's more than 18 months old. But, it is something I uncovered this past weekend and wanted to share it with our community.
Twenty-three-year old classical pianist Mary Bichner can see music in colors. A phenomenon known as synesthesia. "I associate specific notes with specific colors. So every time I hear an F, I see purple," Mary said.
As few as one in...
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| Idle Hands are the Devil’s Playthings: The Broader Implications of EMI’s New Management
by: George Howard
EMI has been in the news recently for doing the same thing that so many labels seem to be in the news for these days: laying people off. In EMI’s case the layoffs may reach as many as 2,000 employees. It may surprise you to know that a record label in 2008 could possibly even have 2,000 employees to let go and still have anyone left behind a desk. Well, EMI—along with Warner Music Group (WMG), Sony/BMG, and Universal—is one of the four so...
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| Today's Top 5 Stories and Links
by: Ben Snyder
Five issues, insights, and observations shaping the future of music and the music business from the editors of Artists House Music.
1. An Interview with Swedish Pirate Pary leader Rick Falkvinge
The P2P Consortium has published an interview with Rick Falkvinge, leader of the Swedish Pirate Party (a political party similar to Republicans and Democrats in Sweden that actually exists).
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