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Vimeo Killed the Radio Star
The Internet blew a hole in the music business so wide that those still in it can’t see it.
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A Handy User’s Guide to Career-Building on YouTube
You think you want overnight success, but you really don’t. You want the gradual build, you want fans to embrace you, to become invested in you.
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Fans Are Not Fools: It’s Time to Retire the Album
The album is an antiquated construct that fits the modern era not at all but it sustains because it’s the only way artists and labels have figured out how to make money.
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You Can’t Deny the Deft Touch of Daft Punk
That which you hate today you’re gonna love tomorrow. And you’re gonna love "Get Lucky." And the person who’s gonna hook you is Nile Rodgers.
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Kid Rock Gives the T-Shirt Off His Back to Cut Ticket Prices
Kid Rock’s goal was to give back. To return concert-going to what it once was. A regular habit as opposed to a vacation.
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Daryl Hall Renovates His Career With DIY Spirit
I’m standing onstage thinking about the unlikelihood of the band having another hit and I realize Daryl Hall found a way out. Via his TV show, "Live From Daryl’s House."
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Music Biz Needs Foodies’ Recipe
Musicians are trying to sell out, get in bed with the Fortune 500, whereas food doesn’t scale that way, it’s an end unto itself. It used to be that way in music, before everybody got a scent and a...
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Apple Misses a Few Beats, Misreads Music Market
Isn’t it interesting that the Cupertino company is replicating the flaw of the major labels, holding onto a past paradigm, a veritable cash cow, until it is trumped by somebody living in the future.
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EDM Boogies to Its Own Beat
The global EDM Industry is now worth more than $4.5 billion. Wasn’t the music business supposed to be dead?
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Here’s How Even Veteran Performers Can Stage a Digital Revival
John Fogerty has a new album out, “Wrote a Song for Everyone.” Here’s the way he should have done it.
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Radio Digs Its Own Grave as Cultural Currents Shift
Insiders believe that there’s no revolution in terrestrial radio because the owners know it’s headed into the dumper. They’re just milking it for all they can before it falls off a cliff.
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Music: When Selling It Means Selling Out
What’s the end game here? Tying in with Exxon, so you get the album with 10 gallons of gas? Or one track for every Big Mac? Are we really just gonna go down the rabbit hole, selling our souls to the...
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Music Biz: Today’s Tech Era Is Gonna Run Out of Gas
We need a reset in the music business. We need it to be about the tunes, we need to get rid of the corporations, players need to believe in themselves. And take us on a heretofore unseen journey. Not...
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Thom Yorke’s Misguided War on Spotify Might Accidentally Help
A few weeks back, Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich did Spotify a big favor: They got every music blog and major newspaper to write about the service.
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Nate Silver: The Model for Tomorrow’s Musical Acts
Unlike today’s adolescents dominating the YouTube, SoundScan story, Silver wasn’t born yesterday, as in he’s got a history.
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Music Biz: Streaming Metrics Best Gauge of What’s Hot and What’s Not
As soon as we stop vilifying these streaming services and start trumpeting their metrics, the sooner the rest of the world will take music seriously.
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Never Confuse Spectacle and Controversy With Talent
If you’ve got your knickers in a twist about Miley Cyrus cavorting on stage at the VMAs, you must live a cloistered little life and be afraid of your own shadow.
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Classic Rock’s Era of the Album Gives Way to Today’s Track Stars
Not only are the children of the baby boomers pushing 30, in some cases exceeding that threshold, there’s a whole new generation of barely pubescent children who have never experienced freeform radio...
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Managers, Moolah and the Birth of the Modern Rock Star
In his new book “What You Want Is in the Limo,” Michael Walker points to the ’70s, more specifically 1973, as the year when the screw turned, when Zeppelin, the Who and Alice Cooper went onstage.
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Internet Killed the Radio Star, and Now Netizens Are in Control
Yes, Katy Perry boxed on the VMAs. Miley Cyrus showed everything but her box. But the woman with the most infectious track, who neither looks like a model nor acts like one, who has not taken off her...
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