The future for musicians looks like more than just great recordings and live shows. The opportunities that the internet provides modern artists is available to everyone, and thus its potential [ … ]
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Why We Listen to Music
Music is not a commodity. It’s not something that people buy, or consume. It’s not a revenue stream, or a career choice. It’s an expression of the depths of peoples’ [ … ]
Album Sales: A Realistic Perspective
In getting a picture of what’s next for the music business, let’s take a moment to look at reality right now. There are a few reports from mid-2007 that CD [ … ]
The Album: Extinction or Evolution?
Prince gave his album away in a newspaper, and Radiohead broke new ground with In Rainbows by letting fans choose how much to pay. Animosity toward major record companies [ … ]
P2P Doesn’t Hurt Record Sales
Spotted on: ArsTechnica A recent paper in the Journal of Political Economy explored the Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales. The study found (surprise!) that file [ … ]
Speak Clearly (Jargon on a Tangent)
Spotted on: New York Times As the end of the year statistics for the music industry are released, I keep noticing a common tone of these articles. They all seem [ … ]
Death of Dynamic Range
Spotted on:? Austin360.com Read the article here. This is a great article about Dynamic Range, and how it’s gone out of style.? In the frenzy of making music louder [ … ]
Impressions by John Coltrane
This is like the most nuts version of this tune we’ve ever heard…
Price Points vs. Perceived Value
One of the hot topics of conversation in digital music is price points. It’s such a grand term, though it’s really just two memes strung together: the idea of price, [ … ]
What about the Low End?
Few of our cell phones, mp3 players, laptop speakers, and computer speakers have quality bass response. Do you think that the perceived value of music might factor in fidelity? Is [ … ]