Following Glenn Peoples on Twitter is really a great move if you’re in the music industry, or affected by it…or even just interested in it. Yesterday he posted about UMG’s new site VEVO which launches tonight. In case you’re unfamiliar you can read the full VEVO press release here. To sum it [...]
The Future of Music Coalition continues to impress me with its thoughts on music copyright and the issues that affect it. I wanted to post the following comments that Jean Cook, Interim Executive Director gave.
Nov 20 2009
Testimony of
Jean Cook
Interim Executive Director,
Future of Music Coalition
New York City Council Committee
on Technology in Government
Hearing on [...]
After perusing FMC’s web site I recently came across an article touting the impending greatness of cloud computing’s effect on the music industry namely in the form of Spotify.
While the article notes “streaming of music from the cloud could be one of the missing puzzle pieces for which the music industry has been so desperately [...]
Today on my twitter feed popped up the typical slew of music industry news and something really caught my eye. Hip Hop Press had a release about a new service for artists (independent and otherwise) called Nimbit.
Nimbit is a service that attaches to an artist’s facebook page and allows them sell their music, merchandise, [...]
In his article “Can Jazz Be Saved?” from the Wall Street Journal, Terry Teachout poses a question about the potential death of the art form of Jazz. A well thought out read the article highlights the decline in both age and frequency of jazz concert-goers and album buyers, and speculates that jazz may very [...]
Recently Glenn Peoples tweeted a really interesting article in the New York Times which is an excerpt from a book called “Ripped” by Greg Kot.
The article emphasizes the drastic change in business practices in the music industry in the late 90’s and focuses on a new business model of streamlined consolidation and capturing more market [...]
I’m at a breaking point, in a good way. Shoving back for once. Realizing potential for once. I’ve stared so long over the cliff that the chasm is starting to seem too deep to do any damage, or a mirage meant to trick my brain and keep me from jumping. I’m [...]
This morning something occurred to me that sums up my feelings about goals, creativity, and life in general. Initially I was surprised that it took me so long to have this realization, but after closer examination and using the keen perspective of hindsight it appears I haven’t been focused on much of anything until [...]
A friend of mine sent me an email earlier today linking to this article. I just wanted to post a little something to let you all know how smart I am.
The unemployment rate is currently at 8.1% That’s the U3 index – not the U6. Which basically means that it doesn’t include all the people who were not working for various reasons like maternity leave, having been in prison, having already been unemployed, working part time, etc. The U6 is more like [...]
