“Running a music venue is hard work. Let’s get that little truth out of the way upfront. Long hours. Liquor licenses. Sound system maintenance. Booking. Oh, and, umm…dealing with musicians! (Face it: we can be a bunch of immature divas sometimes, especially when alcohol is involved.) But that doesn’t justify skimming off the top or inflating projected costs in order to earn a few extra bucks at our expense.”
“Odd Future, who have been releasing mixtapes since 2008, enjoyed a burst of success in the past year due mainly to Tyler’s disturbing video for his song “Yonkers.” You can find the video below. If you watch it, I hope you’re okay with swear words and giant cockroaches.”
“In a music industry first, Lil Wayne will release Tha Carter IV in its entirety on-line via retail sites including iTunes and Amazon at the stroke of midnight following the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards on August 28th, the evening before the physical CD will be in stores. The release is a grand finale to his performance at the MTV Music Awards where he is nominated for “Best Hip-Hop Video” and “Best Collaboration.”"
“The MTV Video Music Awards are one of the top award events of the year for the music industry. They have now been awarded every year for more than 25 years. The event has now become as much about recorded music and live performances as it is about the actual videos that are being celebrated. The MTV Video Music Awards have a reputation as one of the most unpredictable and therefore fascinating televised entertainment celebrations of the year. ”
“The indie label community, which has benefitted from Apple’s innovations in digital distribution, is optimistic. “We are hopeful, given the continuation of existing internal management as part of the succession plan, that iTunes will continue to treat the independent music label community on an equitable basis, as they always have in the past, and look forward to continued Apple innovations that bring consumers into the music space,” A2IM president Rich Bengloff said to Billboard.biz in an email.”
“The problem is not necessarily people without talent foisting their sorry songs off on an unsuspecting public. There’s a little of that, to be sure, but for the most part what you’ll find is acts, be they solo artists or groups, recording before they are ready.”
“The story of Napster, the peer-to-peer file-sharing service that disrupted the music industry, will soon be told in documentary form.”
“The music industry has changed drastically over the past 30 years. The various music formats–from vinyl records, to 8-track, to cassette, to CD, and then to digital downloads–show a number of transitions over the past three decades. The wax and wane of these formats is shown in a rather interesting pie chart from Digital Music News. The animated pie chart maps each format between the years of 1980 to 2010 based on RIAA revenue figures. The chart is perhaps the best way possible to represent what’s going on in the music industry in 30 seconds or less.”
“Mistake #1: Ordering too many CDs
If you hear yourself say, “Cool! We got our album done. Let’s order 1000 CDs!”, go take a cold shower and slap yourself twice. The reality of ordering this many CDs is having a box of quite a few hundred CDs collecting dust on a shelf a few years later. Worse, you will be out money since you didn’t recoup the costs.”
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