Dear iTunes, I have a way for you to stay relevant after Steve Jobs goes back to his home planet and everyone starts jumping ship. It requires some privacy invasion and a new way to calculate what a hit record is, but in doing so, iTunes could become even more powerful in the music industry. [...]
Prince is such a weird dude. At times battling with his fans over which photos can be used on the net, and then other times giving his music away with a morning paper. And we haven’t even touched his music, style, or guitar choices. So in a way, it’s unsurprising that Prince is once again [...]
Last week at work, I had the realization we were creating our own long tail. If you haven’t heard of the term, it’s based on the idea of niches and selling less of more. It was put into a book and on-going blog by Chris Anderson. My inital understanding is that there is a market [...]
Spring is coming. Well it’s almost here where I live. There’s still snow on the ground and we just had a Siberia style cold snap, but spring is coming. With that in mind, I popped in some Jack Johnson to remind me of summer. I remember being 20, working in a video store, and talking [...]
I was just reading David Kershenbaum’s blog again and revisited his post, Top 10 Mistakes Unsigned Artists Make. Even though all ten tips are pretty solid, the one that struck out at me today was the importance of being able to pull it off live. …I can’t stress enough that with the advent of digital [...]
Billy Corgan is a tool. Speaking to congress about the impending Live Nation + TicketMaster merger Billy boy said this: “…The combination of these companies creates powerful tools for an independent artist to reach their fans in new and unprecedented ways, all the while restoring the power where it belongs…In short, we have a broken [...]
Recently we posted about digitally distributing your music via TuneCore and CD Baby. There has been quite a bit of traffic on that post, and with all the new info we’ve got it’s time to take another look at your digital distribution options. WaTunes WaTunes has flipped the script on digital distribution as it now [...]
I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio… songs were more important to me than just light entertainment. -Bob Dylan The thing I love most about Bob Dylan is that he is never satisfied. He continually changes and perfects his music to suit him. Not the audience, to suit him. As most of [...]
So I’m at a house party last night and end up having a long conversation about music with a drunk friend of a friend. This guy is fanatical about music and loves being the guy who knows about a band before anyone else does. We agreed on a lot and disagreed on some, but he [...]
The Beatles Subscription Music
There’s word that everybody’s favourite band, The Beatles, may finally be available digitally. The Guardian is reporting that George Harrison’s son, Dhani Harrison, has raised the idea of letting The Beatles catalog out in a stand alone digital store. Although there have been rumors for years about the possibility of The Beatles music being available [...]