Archive for May, 2009
Matt Morris Live Versus The Recording
Last Wednesday I had the opportunity to sit in with some UMPG colleagues to listen in a new singer/songwriter by the name of Matt Morris. After playing about five songs, I must say I was blown away. His great storytelling, lyrical depth, vocal control, rhyme, and heavy use of Christian references and imagery all bring [...]
Rank And File The Music
I love, love, love technology. The robots provide me hope whereas the humans seem to repeat their mistakes millenium after millenium. This past Monday’s conference at the SanFran MusicTech Summit seems to have displayed what could be the indies’ and underground artists’ best marketing tool to reach never-would-have-been-found audiences.
The speed and accuracy of the “semantic [...]
Ping It Everywhere
I like most things new, and we’ll be sure to use software like Ping.fm. It supposedly allows you to send a single update to multiple networks simultaneously. Hence for our purposes it’d be cool to get the word out on all our artists and their music all with one click. But what if the web [...]
Will The Web No Longer Be Free?
Who can we blame but ourselves for this music industry collapse? From misfired lawsuits against grandmothers to imprisonment of the creators of The Pirate Bay, I’d prefer to believe we are a people of ideas rather than a people who cave into fear and top-down, market controls.
I can sympathize with those who have held onto [...]
Performance Rights Bill Passes Through Judiciary Committee
Yay! What better day, than on Stevie Wonder’s birthday to hear that the House Judiciary Committee favorably reported the legislation yesterday by a vote of 21-9.
“Today the House Judiciary Committee approved the Performance Rights Act (H.R. 848). The Bill will close a loophole in copyright law that allows music radio stations to earn billions of [...]
Free Music On Facebook
So I might not be the most savvy Facebook member in their user database, but I have to give props to another one of the web 2.0 modes of getting out some good music. It was only recently that I’d noticed one of my friends to have set up an event on the social community [...]
Call To Action Days – May 11 and May 12 – musicFIRST
As the world’s largest music market, don’t you find it odd that the US is the only country in the world that does not pay royalties to recording artists for terrestrial radio airplay? Let’s change that! Go to the musicFIRST website ( www.musicfirstcoalition.org ) to learn how to call up your local Members of Congress.
For [...]
The Price Is Wrong
Today I’d just thought to jump on the soapbox and share some goodie thoughts on oldie news that iTunes has raised prices on more popular track downloads to $1.29. I, for one, am not in favor of the arbitrary pricing of goods set by their distributors.
Though research statistics have shown that consumers would more likely [...]
What Could Have Been Cinco De Mayo
Even though the World Health Organization did a good job in keeping media outlets plugged in with information about the swine flu, the CDC (Centers For Disease Control And Prevention) is doing an even better job utilizing Twitter and Google providing real-time updates while monitoring the pestilence. Despite what’s being done to prevent the potential [...]
New Chart On Top Of The Market
A friend of mine who works at a major music publisher pointed out to me a new charting system that could shake the foundations of how A&R market their artists.
Vying for top spots on charts such as Billboard, many of the industry’s majors would agree, is a cutthroat fight based predominantly on SoundScan sales and [...]
