Music Industry

Karmin Holds the Music Business Hostage

Jason Schmitt | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Fader Media, Rob Stone, Nils Gums, Roadrunner Records, Berklee College of Music, Rubber Tracks Studio, Karmin Music, Kimbra, Bob Lefsetz, Rethink Music Conference, Mark Foster, Roger Brown, Geoff Cottrill, Kickstarter, Seth Godin, Music Industry, Amanda Palmer, Karmin, Foster the People, Entertainment News
Jason Schmitt

The ability for bands like Karmin to create, promote, and reap the awards of good artistry prior to a major label contract helps to illuminate just how far and fast the music business game has changed.

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A Shift in Music

Jake Shears | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Rdio, Music-Subscription, Music Industry, Vinyl, Music Industry Change, Vinyl Records, Record Stores Nyc, Cds, Record Stores, Video, Entertainment News
Jake Shears

There's clearly a shift in the way people are buying music now and I can't help but think about how that affects me as an artist.

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Creativity Endures: The 'Amen Break' and Copyright Law

Network Awesome | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Electronic Music, Drum and Bass, Amen Break, Copyright Law, Copyright, Music Industry, Copyright History, Video, Culture News
Network Awesome

What do Amy Winehouse, N.W.A., David Bowie, a Jeep 4x4 commercial, and the cartoon Futurama all have in common? Believe it or not, they all share six seconds of drum music.

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The Music Industry Might Actually Not Be Dying

Huffington Post | Chris C. Anderson | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Cary Sherman, Digital Music, Digital Media, Video, Riaa Sales, Recording Industry, Music Industry, Subscription Services, Riaa, Entertainment News

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently released their report on 2011 Year End Shipment Data, in which states that "total [music...

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Guess What? Stealing Is Still Wrong

Logan Lynn | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Musicians, Music Industry, Recording Artists, Music Piracy, Illegal File Sharing, Downloading Music, Sharing Music, Illegally Downloading Music, File Sharing, Online Piracy, Culture News
Logan Lynn

I don't actually believe that stealing my intellectual property is your constitutional right. Sorry, everybody. I get that you are used to consuming music like it's chewing gum, but those days are numbered. I'm glad that file sharing companies are getting shut down.

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The Music in the Music Industry

Malik Yusef | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Music, Soul, Auto-Tune, What Is Beautiful Never Dies, Artists, Music Industry, Soul Music, What Is Beautiful Never Dies Project, Music Today, Music and Community, Entertainment News
Malik Yusef

Having a stove doesn't make you a chef. Having pro tools and auto-tune doesn't make you an artist. No matter the tools or utensils you have, only making "art" makes you an "artist."

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Generations X and Y: Grit, Freedom and Triumph

Elizabeth Blackney | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Music Industry, Millennial Generation, Hunter Hayes, Generation Y, Terrorism, Country Music, Generation X, Act of Valor, Impact News
Elizabeth Blackney

They are the children of Baby Boomers, Generation Jones and GenXers. More than anything, Generation Y are fearless creators of content.

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Oh, No: Chris Brown Didn't Tweet That?!

Mona Elyafi | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Madonna, Music Industry, Twitter, The Grammys, Chris Brown, Chris Brown Rihanna, Entertainment News
Mona Elyafi

If you ask me the real question is not why Chris Brown was allowed to sing live twice at The Grammys, but rather why was he allowed to sing at all... period! For an award show celebrating the BEST in music, shouldn't the BEST get to go onstage?

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Hip Hop: Time to Occupy It

Jerry Ashton | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Black People, Hip Hop Caucus, Hip Hop, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, War on Drugs, Music Industry, Hip-Hop, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Movement, Black Voices News
Jerry Ashton

In Ernie Paniccioli's mind, what originated as a "voice for the voiceless" has become just one more way for Wall Street to extract money from people's pockets. Essentially, he feels the black community is being subjected to the tyrannical equivalent of the musical 1 percent.

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The Case For Making Recordings

Danielle de Niese | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: The Metropolitan Opera, Classical Music, Music Industry, The Enchanted Island, Baroque Music, Opera, Arts News
Danielle de Niese

With the evolution of the marketplace, the ever-changing template of how we make, spread and share our music with the public, not to mention t...

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Music Industry Benefits From Solar-Powered Recording Studios

Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Video, Solar Energy, Solar-Power Recording Studios, Recording Studio Solar Panels, Solar Panels, Renewable Energy, Music Industry, Music, Solar Power, Music Industry Solar Power, Green-Technology, Green News

From EarthTechling's Steve Duda: A professional recording studio is an impressive sight to behold. Inside the expansive recording rooms, it is extr...

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SOPA and PIPA Bills Threaten Job Creation and Innovation

Brett Greene | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Congressional Bills, Internet, Congress, Senate, Television Studios, Movie Studios, Music Industry, Pipa, Sopa, Linkedin, Aol, Zynga, Paypal, Mpaa, Twitter, Discover, Facebook, Mozilla, American Express, Yahoo, Recording Industry Association of America, Visa, Opendns, Motion Picture Association of America, Etsy, Foursquare, Ebay, Wikimedia Foundation, Riaa, Google, Denver News
Brett Greene

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate are well meaning, but if passed, will be destructive to internet freedoms we've all come to expect.

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20 Big Ideas for 2012, Part Four

Don Tapscott | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Open Source Technology, Online Learning, Open-Sourcing, Online Courses, Open Source, Music Industry, Online Education, Music Industry Technology, Music Social Networks, Social Media Education, Social Media Marketing, Business News
Don Tapscott

What will happen in 2012? In the spirit of the aphorism "The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved," let me suggest 20 transformations.

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The Mixtape Epidemic

Sharief Easterling | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Mixtape, Hip Hop Mixtapes, Pop Culture, Mixtapes, Bv-Pop-Culture-Gossip, Bv-Pop-Culture-Entertainment, Hip Hop, Hip Hop Culture, Music Industry, Music, Black Voices News
Sharief Easterling

I heard your mom is dropping a mixtape. Kidding, of course -- but in this oversaturated climate, it doesn't seem too far-fetched. The drastic decline in record sales has led a phenomenon I refer to as "The Mixtape Epidemic."

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Karaoke Like a Star

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Mobile Applications, Brains and Beakers, StarMaker Karaoke With Auto-Tune, Mobile Action Lab, App Development, Youth Radio, Karaoke, Music Industry, Youth Media International, App Lab, Iphone, Jeff Daniel, Technology News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By the Mobile Action Lab OAKLAND--Have y...

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Taylor Made: How One Man's Dream Redefined the American Idol

Cicily Janus | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Simon Cowell, Art, Taylor Hicks Album, Taylor Hicks, Music Industry, Blues, American Idol, American Dream, Entertainment News
Cicily Janus

Hats off to Taylor Hicks for proving the masses wrong, for tailoring a dream to reality and giving us all something to sing for.

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Lana Del Rey's Sound Is Both Vulnerable and Feisty

Sophia Dumaine | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Lana Del Rey, Music Industry, Music, New Artists, Culture News
Sophia Dumaine

In her new single being released on October 17th "Video Games" and its B-side "Blue Jeans", Lana Del Rey, a rising star in the folk, indie-rock scene, sings dreamily of youth, summertime boredom, sex, and nostalgia in a slightly edgy, heartfelt fashion.

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How Restaurants Can Go Broke By Playing Music

Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Bmi, Video, BMI Music, Ascap, Restaurant Music, Music Licensing Fees, Restaurant Music Licensing, Bmi and Ascap, Background Music, Music Industry, Food News

There's a lot of overlap between restaurant lovers and music lovers, so it's not hard to imagine that, if you open a restaurant, you have a favorite b...

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The Snap-Cracklin' Pop of the Wellingtons

Eric Williams | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: That Thing You Do, Pop Music, Australia, The Wellingtons, Radio Disney, Synth-Pop, Music Industry, Top 40, Fountains of Wayne, Power Pop, Entertainment News
Eric Williams

In his boisterous directorial debut, "That Thing You Do!", Tom Hanks's record-executive character Mr. White makes the following request: "I want something peppy, something happy, something up-tempo. I want something snappy." Mr. White would have loved the Wellingtons.

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Jason Gilbert

Boyz II Men Member: 'In The Next 10 to 15 Years, All Music Is Going To Be Free'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Boyz II Men, Iphone, Pop Music, Napster, Apps, Android, Android Apps, Free Music, Boyz Ii Men App, Music Industry, iPhone Apps, Video, Technology News

"In the next 10 to 15 years, all music is going to be free," Nathan Morris, member of stalwart R&B group Boyz II Men, told HuffPost over the phone. It...

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The Fab Four Reunite As Stick Figures Who Need Cash

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Iron Maiden, The Beatles, Music Matters, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Beatles, Internet Pirating, Music Matters the Beatles, Music Industry, Why Music Matters, Music Pirating, Video, Culture News

Paul and Ringo are the latest musicians to throw in with Why Music Matters, the year-old campaign intended to shame you from BitTorrenting. In WMM’s...

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Kia Makarechi

House Invasion: How Club Music Sneaked Into Mainstream Pop

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Kesha, Kanye West, Britney Spears, Katy Perry, House Music, Webster Hall, Raves, Lady GaGa, Winter Music Conference, Music, Pop Music, Video, Electronic Music, Jay-Z, Music Industry, Popular Culture, Edm, Culture News

On a July night, the ground at New York's always-crowded, never-clean Webster Hall was quite literally shaking under the bass pouring out of the DJ's...

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Turntable.fm: A Love Story

Meghan Overdeep | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Internet, Social Media, Startups, Websites, Music Industry, turntable.fm, Music, Technology, Google Plus, Spotify, Technology News
Meghan Overdeep

While I've been busy forcing myself to like Google#, like everyone else, a little music community called Turntable.fm has been gaining strength. And it has quickly managed to charm my pants off.

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Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle Tackles Stateside Fame

Sam Lansky | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Pop Music, Girls Aloud, Music Industry, British-Pop, Nadine Coyle, Girls-Aloud-Solo, Music Reviews, Album Reviews, Fire Island, Entertainment News
Sam Lansky

"Sweetest High" is a very canny new direction; the single is palatable to American listeners in a way that Girls Aloud, with its distinctly English everything-but-the-kitchen-sink madness, never was.

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The Best Job Ever

Jordana Zizmor | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Tory Class, Michael Buble, Dream Job, Music Industry, Tour, Michael Buble Music, Social Media Michael Buble, Artists Twitter, Michael Buble Twitter, Social Media Jobs, Entertainment News
Jordana Zizmor

Tory Class has my dream job. She handles all social media for Michael Bublé while he is on tour. This includes tweeting and writing a blog on his fan club Bungalow-B. I recently met up with Tory in Albany.

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