Things To Check Out - February 4th, 2008
Bruce Warila
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22,000 Songs and Nothing to Listen To (Seattle Weekly - January 23, 2007)
Karla Starr writes about the impact of having an endless amount of music at our fingertips. This article is a must-read for artists. Karla’s article covers a range of topics from the power of music imprinting to how consumers can rapidly flick through 500 songs searching for another emotive spike. Great article!
World Around Records
Justin Boland wrote a comment at the end of my Branding Together post. Branding Together discussed the importance of forming branded groups of artists to succeed on the Internet. Check out Justin’s comment and take a look at the living example of Branding Together that he has worked on for more than a year. World Around Records is an example of a business model every artist should consider exploring. Now that’s what I am talking about!
Artists Are About To Be Screwed Again
Personalized streams of music are the future of music. The major labels are making cash deals and taking equity positions in the companies that offer personalized streams of music to consumers, and artists will never (directly) see this money or benefit from the equity upside. The RIAA and the DiMA are trying to make sure artists receive ZERO royalties from personalized music streams. This is the MOST ALARMING RIP-OFF taking place in the music industry right now. Read this article and this article on Wired to get the details. I hope to cover this more later. (Ironically and moronically, the RIAA's stance on this issue will shortchange any label migrating to 360-degree deal-making. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.)
Is Technology Killing The Radio Star?
Mark Ramsey @ Hear 2.0 writes about how personalized radio will eventually kill off radio as we know it. Mark is an expert on the radio industry. Artists may want to subscribe to Mark’s blog to understand the future of radio. I can’t offer this advice enough: for artists, getting into MP3 players is job one. iPods are the new radio. If you want to be on the radio - get into 300,000 iPods.
Great Visual Art
Here are two guys posting some amazing illustrations. I don’t know what they do with all of their art, but if I were doing something in rap or hip-hop I would contact these guys about working together to create an elaborate plan that includes the powerful visuals that these guys are capable of creating.
Karla Starr writes about the impact of having an endless amount of music at our fingertips. This article is a must-read for artists. Karla’s article covers a range of topics from the power of music imprinting to how consumers can rapidly flick through 500 songs searching for another emotive spike. Great article!
World Around Records
Justin Boland wrote a comment at the end of my Branding Together post. Branding Together discussed the importance of forming branded groups of artists to succeed on the Internet. Check out Justin’s comment and take a look at the living example of Branding Together that he has worked on for more than a year. World Around Records is an example of a business model every artist should consider exploring. Now that’s what I am talking about!
Artists Are About To Be Screwed Again
Personalized streams of music are the future of music. The major labels are making cash deals and taking equity positions in the companies that offer personalized streams of music to consumers, and artists will never (directly) see this money or benefit from the equity upside. The RIAA and the DiMA are trying to make sure artists receive ZERO royalties from personalized music streams. This is the MOST ALARMING RIP-OFF taking place in the music industry right now. Read this article and this article on Wired to get the details. I hope to cover this more later. (Ironically and moronically, the RIAA's stance on this issue will shortchange any label migrating to 360-degree deal-making. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.)
Is Technology Killing The Radio Star?
Mark Ramsey @ Hear 2.0 writes about how personalized radio will eventually kill off radio as we know it. Mark is an expert on the radio industry. Artists may want to subscribe to Mark’s blog to understand the future of radio. I can’t offer this advice enough: for artists, getting into MP3 players is job one. iPods are the new radio. If you want to be on the radio - get into 300,000 iPods.
Great Visual Art
Here are two guys posting some amazing illustrations. I don’t know what they do with all of their art, but if I were doing something in rap or hip-hop I would contact these guys about working together to create an elaborate plan that includes the powerful visuals that these guys are capable of creating.
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Reader Comments (1)
Broadcast radio's days are numbered. It just doesn't make sense anymore. Cell phone companies would pay MUCH more for that bandwidth than radio advertisers are. Music listeners can get better service from Pandora and its ilk. It's only a matter of time until broadcast radio goes the way of analog TV.