Posted in Industry, Radio, mp3, tagged Industry, Radio on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-02/su_radio
By Brendan I. Koerner 01.18.08 | 6:00 PM
Unless you enjoy hearing the same insipid Fergie song a dozen times a day, chances are you loathe mainstream radio. And for good reason: The FM band between 92.1 and 107.9, where commercial stations reign, is mostly a desert of robo-DJs and pop pabulum.The sad decline of [...]
Posted in Industry, News, tagged Music Industry on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/01/17/the-album-is-dead/
Jan 17th 2008 9:29PM
There once was a time when the release date of an album was exciting. For our favorite artists we knew when the last album came out and when the next album was due. If you loved the artist you bought it. If you didn’t you either bought the single or you listened [...]
Posted in Artists, Indie Artist Education, Industry on December 21, 2007 | No Comments »
FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne?currentPage=all
David Byrne’s Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars
By David Byrne
Full disclosure: I used to own a record label. That label, Luaka Bop, still exists, though I’m no longer involved in running it. My last record came out through Nonesuch, a subsidiary of the Warner Music Group empire. I have also [...]
Posted in Artists, Industry, News, RIP, Radio, tagged Mike Hays, RealCountry.net, TwangCast on December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
TCB was saddened today to learn of the passing of Mike Hays.
Mike was the founder of RealCountry.net and TwangCast. TwangCast was cyberspace’s revered and ground-breaking internet station created to showcase independent real country music that wasn’t been heard anywhere else at the time. Traditional country artists such as Dale Watson and Heather Myles reached a brand new audience. Countless artists were [...]
Posted in Industry, News, Radio, tagged News, Radio on December 3, 2007 | No Comments »
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/arts/music/01one.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Henny Ray Abrams/McDonald’s, via Associated Press
By JEFF LEEDS
Published: December 1, 2007
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30 — For the millions of Americans who listened to Top 40 radio last week, it was almost impossible to miss “Apologize,” the string-tinged elegy performed by the modern rock band OneRepublic and remixed by the eclectic producer Timbaland.
WIOQ-FM, a pop station [...]
Posted in Industry, News, Radio, savenetradio, soundexchange, tagged internet, Radio on December 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Click here for a wonderful editorial piece on the current internet radio fiasco.
Posted in Industry, Radio, tagged Radio on December 2, 2007 | No Comments »
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07336/837887-42.stm
Sunday, December 02, 2007
By Adrian McCoy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In the past, the radio industry was plagued by payola scandals: Stations took money from record companies in exchange for airplay. Now, a group representing recording artists is seeking to turn the pay-for-play strategy on its head: It wants radio stations to pay artists and their record labels [...]
Posted in Industry, News, tagged RIAA on November 28, 2007 | No Comments »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21999892/
By Joshua Chaffin in New York
Terra Firma’s drive to cut costs at EMI, the troubled record company it acquired in May for nearly $5bn (£2.4bn), is now hitting the music industry’s trade organisations.
Earlier this month, Guy Hands, Terra Firma’s chief executive, sent letters to members of the industry’s two largest trade groups - the Recording [...]
Posted in Industry, News, Radio on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
http://www.radioink.com/HeadlineEntry.asp?hid=140034&pt=todaysnews
WASHINGTON — November 13, 2007: With a bill by Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) to impose a performance royalty on broadcasters expected to be introduced soon, a resolution opposing a royalty is adding co-sponsors.
House Concurrent Resolution 24, introduced last month by Reps. Gene Green (D-TX) and Mike Conaway (R-TX), reads, “Congress should not impose any new [...]
Posted in Industry, News, Radio, savenetradio, soundexchange, tagged Radio, savenetradio, soundexchange on October 28, 2007 | No Comments »
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/10/watch-the-futur.html
By Eliot Van Buskirk October 24, 2007 | 12:34:14 PMCategories: Save Net Radio
If you’re curious about the state of radio — and have 90 minutes kill — check out today’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing regarding broadcast media ownership rules and the Copyright Royalty Board rates.
I watched Mac McCaughan (of Superchunk, Portastatic, and Merge Records) talk [...]
