Industry – Page 4

Industry links: YouTube, RIAA mathematics, Jay-Z’s Tidal.

13 July, 20166 May, 2017 Industry, Links 0

YouTube, record company accounting, Tidal.

Links.

8 June, 201625 August, 2016 Industry, Links, mp3, Musician 0

Music industry prays for rain, one of Mute’s sound engineers, NEVER run iTunes on your music production computer.

Today’s links.

11 December, 201529 September, 2016 Esoterica, Industry, Links, mp3 0

“Happy Birthday” is finally acknowledged as being public domain. Probably. The history of the hidden track. Format-shifting music you’ve bought in the UK is

Links.

5 December, 20154 September, 2016 Industry, Links, Metal, mp3, Musician 0

A Swedish black metal band who studied Catholicism so intensely for more efficient blasphemy that they wound up converting to Catholicism. The pioneering women

Imogen Heap failing to catch all the money raining from the skies, on The Blockchain.

Imogen Heap doesn’t make the blockchain hype make sense either.

2 December, 20152 May, 2017 Industry, mp3 3

The big name in recent “blockchain” (Bitcoin) hype is Imogen Heap. As far as I can tell, it’s still the case that nothing about this is going to work.

More on the blockchain-music hype: what PeerTracks thinks it’s doing.

7 August, 20155 September, 2016 Industry 1

After the amazingly terrible Berklee white paper on how to make all musicians rich using magic beans, today we have a breathless piece of content marketing in Billboard hyping the notion, devoid of useful detail and promising the moon on a stick fueled by very complicated computer wizard magick.

Putting the record industry on Bitcoin: Why this won’t work.

23 July, 20155 September, 2016 Industry 1

Bloomberg has put up a breathless piece of hype based on a report from the most speculative unit of the Berklee College of Music, suggesting that doing it all on THE BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN will shower money on all. Plus point: it is indeed from Berklee. Minus points: it’s made of squirrels and crack.

Apple wants free streaming and videos on YouTube shut down.

4 May, 201528 April, 2017 Industry, mp3 0

Of course the new distribution channels are going to act like the old distribution channels. Apple wants to relaunch Beats as a new and

Help the suffering stars of Tidal.

28 April, 201528 August, 2016 Industry, mp3 0

With the tidal.com app sinking without trace for no better reason than that it’s terrible and there’s no conceivable reason to bother with it,

Industry links.

18 April, 20156 May, 2017 Industry, Links 0

So how much is music actually worth? Spoiler: nobody knows. Universal Music Hijacks YouTube Videos of Indie Artist. Because of course they did. How

Links.

23 January, 20156 May, 2017 Dance, Industry, Links 0

Google puts the hard word on artists using YouTube. Sign up for five years or you’re off YouTube. What the “vinyl comeback” actually looks

Steve Albini: How The Internet Solved The Problem with Music.

11 January, 201521 August, 2016 Industry, Writing 1

Steve Albini’s 1993 classic “The Problem with Music”, written at the height of the grunge era, when post-hardcore punk bands were getting gobbled up

Work for Oprah’s $999-ticket tour for free. “No budget” for perfomers – but “exposure”!

4 January, 201528 August, 2016 Industry 0

Pity the poor cash-strapped billionaires! Oprah Winfrey’s Live The Life You Want tour, with tickets priced from $99 to $999, has “no budget” to

Sony Pictures hack: how to save a bundle of cash through wilful negligence.

13 December, 201428 August, 2016 Film, Industry 2

Sony Pictures’ computer network got comprehensively pwn3d recently, with huge amounts of confidential data being dumped to the world. Because everybody hates Sony, for

I bet you thought the record industry actually wanted people to buy their records.

12 December, 201428 August, 2016 Industry, Pop 2

The estimable PopBitch details how UK labels refuse to actually make songs with massive demand available for purchase — deliberately missing the Christmas binge

Today’s links.

17 September, 201428 August, 2016 Industry, Links, Pop 0

The inventor of karaoke tells his story. “To bear the awful singing of ordinary citizens, and enjoy it anyway.” “99 Red Balloons” played on

Links for your delectation.

31 August, 20143 January, 2017 Industry, Links, Rock 0

How we’ve paid for music from 1983 to today, in one gif. Revealed: The Type of Music That Makes You Feel Most Powerful Spoiler:

How a major record deal works in the 2010s.

4 February, 20146 May, 2017 Industry, R'n'B 0

From Cracked, one-hit wonder rapper Spose describes his major label career trajectory. Thankfully his story had a happy ending and he’s now making a

Do-it-yourself payola on Spotify.

31 October, 20133 January, 2017 Industry, mp3 0

In the olden days, you needed to bribe DJs or just buy a bootload of copies of your record yourself. These days, you can

“Twitter had a music app?”

21 October, 20137 January, 2017 Industry 0

Is the universal refrain of those hearing that Twitter is killing its music app. I live on Twitter and I hadn’t heard of this

DistroKid to get your music into the chart stores.

9 October, 201320 October, 2016 Industry 2

If you want to get your stuff onto the chart stores (iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and Google), you can spend a pile of cash (around $40/album) with TuneCore or CDBaby — or rather less cash ($20/year unlimited) with DistroKid. Endorsed by the founders of TuneCore and CDBaby, no less (the latter of whom just uploaded everything he’s ever recorded through DistroKid).

Culture is not about aesthetics. Punk rock is now enforced by law.

13 September, 20133 May, 2017 Industry, Musician, Opinion 73

Record companies complain the Internet will destroy music. Musicians complain that they can’t make a living any more. The unsympathetic public, feeling the squeeze themselves, tell them to get a proper job.

The problem isn’t piracy — it’s competition.

We must preserve the record industry, for the sake of artists.

26 September, 20127 May, 2017 Industry 0

James Taylor has filed suit against Warner Brothers for unpaid digital royalties. This has dug up a pile of dirt dating back to 1969.

The impending death of the album.

9 July, 20123 May, 2017 Industry, Opinion, Pop, Record 2

It’s doomed, along with the CD in general. But then, albums have always sorta sucked.

And the man at the back said everyone attack and it turned into a courtroom blitz.

11 June, 20127 May, 2017 Industry 1

Some musicians — I’m sure none of you reading — are observably fucking delusional about business, relationship management, reputation management and what copyright actually

How to make the general public loathe collection agencies.

10 June, 20127 May, 2017 Industry 0

Copyright collection agencies are actually a really good idea for working songwriters. Record companies generally never cough up a royalty cheque ever past the

Music industry whining has a long and venerable history.

25 February, 20127 May, 2017 Film, Industry 0

Today’s is from the advent of the evil talkie in the cinemas. The obvious solution is to ban soundtracks on moving images. Playing YouTube

And then there were three.

11 November, 201120 October, 2016 Industry 0

Goooooood-byeeeeeee. Universal gets EMI’s recordings, Sony gets its publishing. Three dinosaurs left. “More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable.”