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31 Jan, 2012

Hear-Like-Buy: Why Spotify Is Marketing, Not Commerce

Categories: Identity, Music business •
Tags: amazon, artistic brand, artistic identity, artists, best buy, brand, CD, copyright, digital audio, digital media, download, facebook, free spotify, freeware, identity, indie artists, indie music news, indie rock music, intellectual property, media technology, megaupload, mixtape, music distribution, music sharing, music streaming, napster, playlists, spotify, stream, streaming music, tower records, vinyl, walmart •
2 Comments •
by Wampus

You can’t read an article in the music press without tripping over somebody complaining about Spotify royalties. You’ve heard the chorus: Spotify is destroying what’s left of the CD market.… Read More →

12 Jan, 2012

SOPA: Your Role as Artist and Advocate

Categories: Art and creativity, Music business •
Tags: al franken, copyright, copyright protection, creative, facebook, google, indie artists, indie music, intellectual property, law, microsoft, motion picture association of america, MPAA, music copyright, online piracy, piracy, recording industry association of america, RIAA, ron paul, SOPA, stop online piracy act •
4 Comments •
by Wampus

Some people think the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is about censoring content creators. Others think it is about guarding intellectual property. Either way, the proposed legislation is about the control… Read More →

28 Nov, 2011

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 →

28 Oct, 2011

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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by Wampus

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 →

24 Oct, 2011

Johnny J Blair: Return to the Street

Categories: New music •
Tags: bil bryant, billy bragg, bret alexander, carmen estevez, clive owen, davy jones, eric biondo, felipe torres, hunter wentzler, I like the street, indie music, indie music news, indie rock music, john wesley harding, johnny j blair, keith kavanaugh, mike garson, minds eye music studios, new album, new music, richard devletian, ron simasek, scott francis, steve forbert, the badlees, the monkees, tim breon, treadmarks •
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by Wampus

We met “singer at large” Johnny J Blair seven years ago when we produced his live-in-studio record, Treadmarks. The passion, commitment, and standard of performance he brought to that session were unforgettable.… Read More →