Tool, widget, product, puppet, whatever you want to call it Lily Allen is the most recent high-profile pawn installed into public power by EMI and the RIAA-minded marketeers. I’m not sure yet if I should pity or revile her because time will reveal if she was just another Bush the 43rd-type marionette strung up and [...]
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Last Saturday I took my very first vocal lesson. And with fool’s bravado I’d decided to challenge my singing skills in a style that was way beyond anything I had ever tried to mimic. Viva cante flamenco! Olé!
If I may say so myself, I think I’ve got a decent grasp of singing in pop, rock, [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I’d commented on ASCAP going after AT&T in attempts to slap an additional performance fee on ringtone downloads that already remit higher than average rates to songwriters and publishers in comparison to full song purchases. More recently I’ve been hearing from colleagues and small business employees that ASCAP is [...]
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We know that chains, bagginess, and ice likely come to mind when you think of hip-hop (commercial hip-hop anyway). Kanye West, a hip-hop figure in his own right though, had once mentioned he wanted to step away from that. It was at a time during the early 2000’s when he’d considered the fashioned fad over-saturated [...]
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News broke recently that MySpace has made its move to focus on something else since losing the so-called social networking war to Facebook. Chief executive Owen Van Natta states “MySpace won’t just be focusing on music as its attraction but on all creative areas. He doesn’t want the company to be backed into one corner…” [...]
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My reaction was copied from Kyla Fairchild’s blog post, and in it Karl Paulnack’s speech to the freshman class of 2004 follows:
One of my parents’ deepest fears, I suspect, is that society would not properly value me as a musician, that I wouldn’t be appreciated. I had very good grades in high school, I was [...]
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The welcome address speech I am about to re-post hit the heart. On so many levels it had resonated within me the essence of my being and what I am doing. But before I re-post it, I feel I should first share my interpretation of the speech.
During my lunch break I couldn’t hold back the [...]
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EMI CEO Elio Leoni-Sceti released the following statement that had me lit:
I passionately believe that if we listen to our consumers, this gap will become our opportunity. I very much look forward to hearing the views of creative industry leaders at the cabinet forum and, of course, those of government who have [...]
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Every time I read up on music news, I get a little paranoid because it seems like as soon as a new platform has been created to help promote the little guy online it gets old and hackneyed fast!
As social media tools for musicians, look how quickly MySpace went up then down. Twitter looks to [...]
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