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Visualizing the dwindling recorded music business

mattmaan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:45:51 +0000

Found at NewMusicStrategies.com is a great chart from The New York Times visualizing the state of record sales.

thru-you.com Music Mashup found at Mashable.com

mattmaan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:27:32 +0000

Milkhouse Music for Your Listening Pleasure

mattmaan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:13:02 +0000

I put up a little site for those of you who would like to listen to some Milkhouse music from days gone by. File under Grand Rapids, MI late 1990′s music scene, baby.

Popcuts.com is going to pay you back for buying music

mattmaan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:43:43 +0000

Pocuts.com is paying you back

Berkeley, Calif.-based Popcuts, which publicly launched its Web site in early August, charges users 99 cents per song. Thereafter, whenever someone else buys the same song, those who have already bought it get paid in credit that can be redeemed for more Popcuts music. The earlier you buy a song, the larger your cut of future sales.

And while credit is currently the payment option, the site’s founders hope to eventually pay users in cash, too.

Not a lot of selection, but a cool new place to put up your tunes.

Popcuts user Gary Yao, 25, said that while he’d prefer cash to the current site credit that users earn, he likes being rewarded for buying songs. So far, he’s earned $5.25 by buying tracks.

“It gives me an incentive to go out there and see what’s new and available,” the San Francisco-based product analyst said, adding that he’s discovered a few new bands by using the site over the past month.

They’re inking a deal with distributors.

Click here to read more.

Music Video 2.0 and Mathieu Saura

mattmaan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:54:00 +0000

Being the ex small-market minor-celeb-rocker that I am, I still enjoy reading the weekly live music industry insider newsletter from Encore, usually there is one or two decent articles in there.

The videos may not be playing on MTV, but they’re all over the Web, where sites like the Black Cab Sessions and Pitchfork TV have joined in with a similar minimalist style.

I especially like the Michael Stipe quote:

“Let’s put the final nail in the coffin on the term ‘music video’ and allow it to be something of the past because that’s exactly what it is,” said Stipe. “It served its purpose very well in the 1980s and 1990s. Music video’s time came and went.”

http://encore.celebrityaccess.com/index.php?encoreId=149&articleId=27735

Meet Glen Campbell (Yes, the Singer of Rhinestone Cowboy)

mattmaan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:08:34 +0000

Guilty pleasure anyone? O.K. I admit it. This is one of the coolest albums to come along in a long time for me. No, I’m not a fan of country music in general. I do like a few of the artists who exist in that realm and I secretly wish that they didn’t. You could say Glen Campbell is one of them. “Rhinestone Cowboy” was one of the first 45rpm records I bought when I was a kid, but I didn’t follow his career beyond that until a good friend turned me on to this incredible songwriter with the awful voice named Jimmy Webb. Well, I needed to hear everything Webb had penned so I wound up listening to a lot of Glen Cambell, Art Garfunkel, the Supremes, and (throw in the name of any notable singer of the 70′s here).

I can’t say that I love every track, but there are a few real gems on here that are worth checking out.