Kickstarter vs. NEA: Paths to Indie Funding
Have an album you’re ready to record and release? A film you want to produce and screen at festivals? How are you going to pay for it? Talking Points Memo (TPM)… Read More →
Jason Warburg: On Believing and Becoming
- Categories: Art and creativity, Identity, New books •
- Tags: activism, being and becoming, belief, believe, believe in me, believing, catch-22, daily vault, fiction, jason warburg, music, music novel, politics, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, self-awareness •
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- by Wampus
In his new novel, Believe in Me, Jason Warburg wrestles mightily with a Catch-22: to achieve something, we must believe we can achieve it. Yet if we haven’t achieved it before, how… Read More →
Spotify Royalties Rising?
- Categories: Music business •
- Tags: application software, artist, computing, digital audio, fail to pay, freeware, launch, media technology, music, music download services, music industry, music streaming, napster, online music stores, pandora, rhapsody, royalties, royalty, royalty rates, spotify, stream, streaming media, streaming service, virtual communities, web 2.0 •
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All right, artists — have you bought your first sandwich yet with your Spotify royalties? We first examined streaming royalties in August, and are taking a fresh look at them… Read More →
Spotify: 3 Tips for Artists
- Categories: Music business •
- Tags: amazon, artist, artistic identity, choice, digital audio, digital media, facebook, freeware, identity, indie artist, indie artists, media technology, mistrust, mixtape, multimedia, music, music distribution, music sharing, music streaming, playlists, recording artist, spotify, stream, streaming music, tips •
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Depending on whom you ask, the music-streaming service Spotify is either the savviest music-sharing platform ever or the canniest artist-fleecing apparatus ever. Either way, it just might be the future of… Read More →
Music Streaming Royalties — Crumbs?
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- Tags: computing, Crumbs, digital audio, digital media, freeware, music, music download services, music industry, music streaming, music streaming service, napster, online music stores, pandora, pandora radio, rhapsody, royalties, royalty, Share Your Music, spotify, stream, streaming media, streaming service, virtual communities, web 2.0 •
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- by Wampus
Music streaming services such as Spotify, Rhapsody, Pandora, and Napster are sharing your music with the masses — and you haven’t had to do a thing to make it happen. And… Read More →