Andrew Dubber, the Future of Music, and Extensive Use of the Word ‘Balls’

Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by refe.

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The following colorful rant is brought to you courtesy of Andrew Dubber, Reader in Music Industries Innovation at Birmingham City University, Bandcamp advisor and new music industry thinker. It consists of a series of Twitter updates with his reactions to a roundtable discussion that he participated in along with Gerd Leonhard. I’ve shared it here [...]

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What Do At&t’s New Bandwidth Caps Mean for ‘iTunes in the Cloud?’

Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by refe.

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Apple and At&t are like the couple where the beautiful girl hooks up with the creepy, overweight older guy. Sure he makes a decent sugar daddy, but none of the girl’s friends can quite understand how she can still stomach the guy all these years later. In yet another move that has put their customers [...]

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What does it take to earn a living with digital music?

Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by refe.

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I’m sure many of you have seen this already, but it’s just too good not to share. Below is a beautiful info-graphi.c that breaks down the amount of music in various digital formats that a single artist would have to sell in order to meet the US minimum wage in a given month. As you [...]

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‘Physical Fanatics’ Continue to Embrace Vinyl in a Post-iTunes World

Posted on 31. May, 2010 by refe.

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Even as many in the music world continue to trumpet the death of the physical release format there is growing evidence that these claims have been grossly exaggerated. There is no denying that digital has taken hold of the music-listening market. Digital sales continue to climb, and new records are set every few months by [...]

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Music News from Around the Web – Friday May 28, 2010

Posted on 28. May, 2010 by refe.

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I’ve compiled a selection of some of the most important music industry news of the past week, along with a few of my own thoughts. Let me know in the comments section if you think I’ve missed anything notable. Music News from Around the Web If you can’t make money selling records, and you can’t [...]

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Music Hack Day – Geeks Can be Rockstars Too

Posted on 26. May, 2010 by refe.

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The following is a guest report by Kevin English of Fairtilizer and Eleetmusic.com. Music Hack Day San Francisco gave me that awkward feeling that tends to surface when I am slightly outside of my comfort zone. It was an event like none I had ever seen, in a city that I’d never been, so I [...]

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Axl Rose and the Importance of Humility and Flexibility

Posted on 24. May, 2010 by refe.

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Change is difficult. Artists often have the hardest time with change because they can be so driven by principle. The rockstar-poet is the clearest example of this. You know the type – one or even a couple of great albums that receive major critical acclaim (whether under or above ground) and then the world moves [...]

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Music-Loving Web Developer Needed for Secret Project

Posted on 22. May, 2010 by refe.

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I am currently knee deep in developing a new online platform that I believe answers a real need in the new music industry. (If you are part of the Creative Deconstruction Facebook community you already know this…) I’m working with Erik Peterson, the founder of music community and marketplace Plugola. We are very excited about the project, but [...]

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What Lala Did Right – And What Apple Should Learn from It

Posted on 04. May, 2010 by refe.

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I discovered Lala only a couple of months ago, and despite it’s flaws it quickly became my go-to service for discovering and sharing music. I was excited to hear that Apple had acquired Lala because I figured that with Apple behind the scenes the music I had purchased in the cloud would be more secure. [...]