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How the Internet Rocked the Music Industry

I found today’s infographic in today’s copy of The Dean’s List, a newsletter delivered to me each weekday from editor Dean Kay and ASCAP. I had been thinking about writing a post on the same subject,...

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Should You Give Your Music Away?

Can you imagine someone asking you this question twenty years ago? I can’t. The fact is, the concept of giving one’s music away for free is a concept that has only surfaced in the last two or three...

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The Digest – March 19, 2013

South by Southwest: Recapping the Music Festival Time A rundown of the SXSW highlights, from Prince to Justin Timberlake, to Waxahatchee, to Death Grips, to Dave Grohl, it’s all here. Next year I’ll...

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The Digest: Fresh News About the Music Business – March 30, 2013

Phil Ramone, Music Producer, Dies at 72 NPR The Two-Way While the cause of death was not immediately disclosed, Ramone was known to have been hospitalized with an aortic aneurysm in February. Ramone, a...

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The Working Musician: Money In Your Own Backyard

In a recent blog post, I tackled the issue of being too old to be a musician. The answer to that one really boils down to one’s own definition of success, and some see success as constantly being on...

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The Digest: Jay-Z, Mozart’s Violin, and Why Your Local Music Scene Sucks

Jay-Z/Samsung - The Lefsetz Letter Bob Lefsetz, the no-holds-bared music industry commentator, is at it again, and this time he slams Jay-Z for selling his music out to the corporations. Samsung is...

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At SXSW, It’s An iTunes World

Robert W. Oliver:Is the album dead? Has ithe CD become a digital dinosaur, replaced by streaming services such as Spotify? While it looks that way for the rest of us, bands say no: the album represents...

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