Songwriting and Music Production
“The death of the MP3 was announced in a conference room in Erlangen, Germany, in the spring of 1995.” So opens Stephen Witt’s How Music Got Free, an investigation into the forced digitization and subsequent decimation of the music business, from which it has only very recently started to recover. That ironic conference room eulogy…
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A blockchain movement is growing at the United Nations, where transparency is key to keeping the funding coming in. Source: How Blockchain Could Finally Unite the United Nations – CoinDesk
The best thing you will see today. Source: Animals That Look Like They’re About To Drop The Hottest Albums Ever These guys had an other band, of humans. But this is the original line up.
At Next Radio 2016, Brittney Bean outlines how DSPs (like Spotify and Apple Music) provide consumption data to record companies and how they use it to retail more music. Source: How record companies use the data Spotify/Apple send them | That Eric Alper Kind of reminds me of the record player that plays the rings…
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Source: Benji Rogers | Keynote Conversation · SlidesLive dotBlockChain. A great video explanation by smart people as to how blockchain can work within the music business to make the music business great again. Sing it.
When asked why knowing every Beatles’ kit, drum piece, and hardware matters, Astridge answers plainly, “I feel The Beatles’ legacy will go on for centuries. My whole take on this and the reason why I collected drums and gear specific for his my whole life was to help bring Ringo’s kits back to life.” Source:…
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John Mellencamp discusses working with Stephen King, getting props from Bob Dylan, why his opinions are “hard to deal with” and more. Source: John Mellencamp on Bob Dylan, Stephen King, the Kinks – Rolling Stone Your friend Bob Dylan shouted you out in his MusiCares speech a couple of years back. What did that mean…
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Larry Fink juxtaposes images of Andy Warhol with other photos of working class life in the 1960s Source: Andy Warhol: The Lost Photographs by the Legend Larry Fink | Time.com
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When they go into the studio or on tour, artists like Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Ozzy Osbourne and John Mellancamp can’t do it alone. They need to hire a band, a collection of crack musicians who can make their music come alive. While these people may play in front of millions of people over the course of their careers, they spend most of time in the background, unknown to all but the most hardcore fans of the frontperson.