Music Industry

Onra: A Hip-Hop Renaissance Resides in France

Timothy Cooper | Posted 05.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: U.S. Economy, J Dilla, France, Economy, U.S., Music, MySpace Music, Outkast, Pop Music, Classical Music, Hip Hop, Vietnam, Music Industry, Japan, Myspace, Onra, Entertainment News
Timothy Cooper

Using the history of his father's homeland and soaking in the spirit of his mother's French roots, Onra has established himself as a harmonious maestro who can adapt to any type of music.

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Ben Harper's Relentless Quest

Derek Beres | Posted 05.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Virgin Records, Ben Harper, White Lies for Dark Times, Music Industry, Relentless7, Entertainment News
Derek Beres

Ben Harper's creative raison d'être: to transform despair and suffering into something nearly palpable, to massage the fears from your heart and mind; to remind you that you're not alone in the struggle.

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The Future of the Music Industry - Part II

Mike McCready | Posted 05.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Music Industry, Entertainment, Music, Music Business, Entertainment News
Mike McCready

Artists and their managers have the most to gain in today's business models and they get to keep a lot more of their rights and income than ever before.

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On My Mind: The State of the Music Business

John Mellencamp | Posted 04.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Walmart, Record Companies, Mellencamp Music Industry, Record Labels, Music Business, Music Industry, John Mellencamp, Bob Dylan, Entertainment Business, Musicians, Music, Entertainment News
John Mellencamp

Had the music industry not been decimated by a lack of vision caused by corporate bean counters obsessed with the bottom line, musicians could still create music rather than having to market it as well.

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The Eagles vs. the Censors: Poll Results

Keith Thomson | Posted 04.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hotel California, Polls, Classic Rock, The Eagles, Radio, Entertainment News, Hurricane Shane, Censorship, Birmingham Weekly, Don Felder, Rock Music, Music Industry, Music, Entertainment News
Keith Thomson

Approximately 7,000 respondents who took the poll on HuffPost vehemently disagree with the censoring of the word "goddamn in the song "Life In The Fast Lane" -- at a rate of 98%.

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The Future of the Music Industry

Mike McCready | Posted 04.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Music Xray, Music Industry, Music, Streaming, Hit Prediction, Music Recommendations, Entertainment News
Mike McCready

It is a jungle out there! How can the fans find the needles in the haystack they want to hear? It's the fundamental problem the labels were solving but now they can't do it effectively.

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Appetite for Destruction: why an "iTunes for News" is a bad idea

Daniel Sinker | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Itunes, Apple, Journalism, Chicago, Newspapers, Death of Newspapers, Music Industry, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Daniel Sinker

We can talk about saving journalism, or we can talk about saving the established order, but we can't talk about both.

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Indie Music Memo To FCC: We Need A Level Playing Field Too

Rich Bengloff | Posted 02.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Independent Label, Digital Music, Thomas Friedman, Fcc, A2IM, Julius Genachowski, FCC Chairman, Digital Downloads, Music Industry, Digital, American Association of Independent Music, Independent Music Stores, Independent Music, Indie Music, Technology, Entertainment News
Rich Bengloff

Just like the free exchange of ideas, freedom in the arts requires equal access for players of all sizes. When it's up to fans, demand for independent music increases dramatically.

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New Year, New Administration, More Clemency

Jason Flom | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George H. W. Bush, George Bush, Drug Sentencing, Grammys, Criminal Justice, Drugs, Music, Ben Taylor, Unfair Sentencing, The Beatles, Whitney Houston, George H.W. Bush, New Jersey, The Fugees, Carly Simon, Jail, Drug Trafficking, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, Crime, John Forte, Exeter, Keith Richards, New York City, Elvis Presley, Presidential Pardons, Criminal Justice System, Prison, Beatles, Lava Records, Bush Pardons, Music Industry, Cocaine, Phillips Exeter, Politics News
Jason Flom

Obama ran on a campaign promise of change. He can begin by using the pardon power generously to correct as many individual cases of injustice as possible.

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The Top Five Boneheaded Music Industry Moves Of 2008

Tony Sachs | Posted 02.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Compact Discs, Lps, Wal-Mart, Led Zeppelin, Independent Music Stores, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Music Retail, Best Buy, The Beatles, Record Industry, Music Business, Sony Music, Emi, Guns N' Roses, Bruce Springsteen, Music Industry, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

In a business where, for the last decade or so, every move made by a major record label or established artist is almost guaranteed to be a dumb one, it's hard to pick a mere five as the créme de la créme of stupidity.

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It's Been 17 Long Days Since the Last Guns N' Roses Album

Steven Shehori | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Music Industry, Guns N Roses, Music, Guns N' Roses, Guns 'N Roses Chinese Democracy, Entertainment News
Steven Shehori

It's early-mid December 2008. We can't sit around living like it's mid-late November 2008. So much has transpired since Chinese Democracy.

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Small Music Company Changing How Americans View World Music

Gabriel Beltrone | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Via Farka Toure, Music, Persian Hip Hop, Hip Hop Sierra Leone, International Music, Bajah and the Dry Yai Crew, Persian Rap, Shasha Marley, Modiba Publishing, Hip Hop Iran, Music Mali, Music Business, World Music, Global Music, Modiba Productions, Music Industry, Afrobeat Sudan Aid Project, Music Sierra Leone, Yas, World Music Corner, World News
Gabriel Beltrone

In an office nestled among garment, jewelry and perfume wholesalers a few blocks south of Herald Square in NYC, a small music production and publishing company is making waves as far away as Tehran, Iran and Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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Making Music Green

Cliff Hunt | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green

Read More: CD Packaging, Pop Music, Record Labels, Ipod, Music Industry, Music Promotion, Radio Stations, Cds, Major Labels, Music, Green News
Cliff Hunt

In Canada all four major labels have exclusively switched to digital distribution for promotional releases, preventing the manufacture and shipping of millions of ecologically harmful CDs.

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Review: David Foster's Hit Man -- Star Gazing in the Recording Studio

Charles Alexander | Posted 01.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, Madonna, Vancouver, Ben Vereen, Howard Stern, Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban, Chicago Music, Chuck Berry, Michael Buble, Whitney Houston, David Foster, Celine Dion, Earth Wind and Fire, Cat Stevens, Clive Davis, Frank Sinatra, Linda Thompson, The Princes of Malibu, Bruce Springsteen, Record Companies, Record Executives, Corrs, Flashdance, Music Industry, Skylark, Celebrities, Media News
Charles Alexander

Since Foster, unlike many musicians, never got into drugs, he actually remembers everything that happened. Example: what was Madonna doing lying on the floor of a recording booth moaning?

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Atlantic Becomes First Major Label To See Digital Sales Surpass CDs

New York Times | TIM ARANGO | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Digital Music Sales, CD Sales, Atlantic Records, Music Industry, Atlantic Records Sales, Music Sales, Business News

Under pressure from Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, the American International Group said Tuesday that it would pay its chief executive,...

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Why Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy Marks The End Of An Era

Tony Sachs | Posted 12.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Bill Haley, Walt Disney Co, Wal-Mart, Ipod, Nirvana, Billboard Magazine, High School Musical, Lil Wayne, Rock Around the Clock, Chinese Democracy, Elvis Presley, Best Buy, The Beatles, Thriller, Music Industry, AC/DC Black Ice, Heartbreak Hotel, Sgt. Pepper, Guns N' Roses, Marvin Gaye, Nevermind, Soundscan, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

Would the Sixties be the sixties without the Beatles? Would teen culture as we know it exist without Elvis? And can any record, no matter how brilliant, have a similar impact today? Somehow, I don't think so.

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Micheal Young History Reinvents Gangsta Rap

Timothy Cooper | Posted 01.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hip-Hop, Lupe Fiasco, Jay-Z, Hip-Hop Chicago, Relationships, Huffington Post Off the Bus, Jay Leno, Superdelegates Barack Obama, New York Times, Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Lupe Fiasco Coats, Obama Hip-Hop, Barack Obama, Music, The Cool, Music Industry, History Channel, Entertainment News
Timothy Cooper

The creation of Michael Young History goes back to Lupe's first album, Food and Liquor.

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Songs For Sale: The Era of the New Megahit

David Singer | Posted 10.17.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Summer Music, Jingles, Subway, Subway Five Dollar Footlong, Music Industry Dead, Free Credit Report Song, Hot in Herre, Free Credit Report, Free Credit report.com Commercials, Itunes, Nelly, Free Credit Report Cot Com, Summer Songs, Music Downloads, Music Industry, Music Industry Jingles, Chris Brown, Quarterflash, Chicago News
David Singer

As in any ecosystem, a new and parasitic mutation is coming to fill the void, giving us the tunes that will become part of our lives, our history, our shared cultural identity. I speak, of course, of the jingle.

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Ben Silverman's Comments on Margins vs. Ratings Signal the End of Broadcast Television

Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Nbc, Television, Superbowl, Television Ratings, M*a*S*H, Ben Silverman NBC, Music Industry, Ben Silverman, Super Bowl XLII, Media News
Shelly Palmer

All of the professional explanations for the decline of broadcast television ratings seem to agree that the problem comes from outside forces and an unavoidable changing landscape. I disagree.

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Clouds and Pirates: Darknets Rising

Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Peer to Peer Downloading, Digital Downloads, Music Downloads, Movie Downloads, Illegal Downloading, Free Downloads, Music Industry, Business News
Shelly Palmer

Soon, "darknet" technology is going to become so easy commonplace that the law of unintended consequences may innocently take the movie business to the place where the music business has gone to die.

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Music Industry's "360" Plan Fails: What's Next?

Sillicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Music Companies, Music 360, Music Industry Rescue Plan, Music Industry, Music 360 Plan, Business News

Live Nation (LYV) just concluded a round of boardroom intrigue by shoving out executive Michael Cohl, who had been spearheading the company's transiti...

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Can Blogs Save The Music Industry?

Fortune | Devin Leonard | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Fixing the Music Industry, Saving the Music Industry, Jon Cohen, Music Blogs, Free Music, Rob Stone, RCRD LBL, Free Music Downloads, Music Industry, mp3 Blogs, Marketing Music, Business News

Pity the music industry. Between 99-cent downloads, free - if not always legal -file-sharing services and MP3 blogs, and an increasingly fragmented au...

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Half Of All Teens Refuse To Buy CDs

Los Angeles Times | Michelle Quinn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Compact Discs, Wal-Mart, Apple, CD Sales, iTunes Music, Cds, Music Industry, Music Seller, Itunes, Digital Downloads, Best Buy, Business News

Nearly half of all teenagers bought no compact discs in 2007, accelerating the music industry's painful transition from CDs to digital downloads, acco...

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