I ran across an Entertainment Law Blog written by Barry Neil Shrum regarding the country act Sugarland. In yet another example of band relationships crumblings and going to the courts, former member Kristen Alison Hall filed a lawsuit against her former band mates. She claimed she wasn’t paid out partnership profits and that she contributed [...]
With the way things are going with online storage, it was inevitable that a service like Bluetunes would crop up for music. Music can take up a ton of your hard-drive space, so what if you could back up all your tunes (besides an external hard-drive) and access them from any computer with internet access? Seems like [...]
In case you haven’t heard AC/DC is NOT releasing their new album on iTunes. I know, it hurts right?…. 2 questions immediately come to mind: who cares? do their original fans even KNOW how to use iTunes? …okay so that may be pushing it (they have sold a shat load of albums) but really, they [...]
In yet another example of how radiohead have millions of spies among us they have released the Reckoner and are breaking up the tune into pieces for everyone to remix. Radiohead, as you may have known, recently release NUDE for remix and had an unprecedented number of visitors: Unique visitors: Unique visitors: 6,193,776, Page Views: [...]
So I’m having dinner with some cousins who just came into town and the conversation about downloading and piracy comes up. I say I buy music only if I think the artist is worth it (all their songs, if not most of their songs have to be great to me). I don’t buy single songs [...]
Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor is one of the few major artists who really involves and engages his fans. In a recent post, Bob Lefsetz pointed out that Reznor is asking his fans to take a survey and in return get a link to a new video of a live performance. He knows that [...]
Yes, I know, Rob Thomas is kinda a douche. But watch the video anyway. He does have some insightful things to say about songwriting. What struck me was at the very end of the interview, Rob states that he doesn’t know how to do anything else but music. This relates to Hoover’s Dave Matthews post [...]
I posted this a few days ago, but came across some new information regarding MySpace Music and their supposed plan to save music. I just ran into some more recent news stating they are going to launch with just the Major Labels on board (for now). That’s too bad, but they know it’s the Indies [...]
I always think it’s cool when you see the story behind an artist who’s established. It makes you realize they were once at the same level as you. You also realize how much work, sacrifice, and luck was involved. Everyone’s path will be different, but you can still learn from others before you. This Dave [...]
Music Marketing: Kanye West vs. 50 Cent
OK, so the whole Kanye West Vs. 50 cent is a little old, but I wanted talk about it since Kanye is gearing up for his new release in November. What I want to talk about specifically is how the supposed rivalry was really a partnership and an example of working together to benefit both [...]