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The Music Business' Only Hope is Transparency
Paul Graham is the founder of Y-Combinator. If you're unfamiliar with Y-Combinator, it's a sort of combination boot camp/mentor program/seed...
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Artists and Brands Make Their Fans/Customers Teachers
The impulse to teach is a powerful one. For me, it provides me with my Joseph Cambell "bliss."
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Joint Venture to Generate Brand Opportunities for Artists
Universal Music Group (UMG) and Havas just announced a joint venture they are calling the "Global Music Data Alliance". This initiative is intended...
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Where Do We Go From Here
It’s New Years Eve, and I’m in a bit of a reflective mood. When I think back on this year, I realize that the question I get asked the most — both...
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Forbes Profile on New Platform for Brand/Artist Partnerships
Forbes recently published both parts one and two of a two-part series profiling Music Audience Exchange and our TuneLaunch platform.
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Nick Messitte at Forbes Weighs In On Payola Laws
A couple weeks back I wrote a piece here explaining why Payola Laws distort the market in the music industry ensuring that independent artists are...
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Fixing Radio
I’ve written at some length about the difficulties surrounding getting your music played on radio. The bottom line is that unless you’re an artist...
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Payola Laws & The Greatest Music You’ve Never Heard
The laws and regulations our politicians and governmental agencies put into place can distort markets and restrict our options as consumers. Lately...
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Taylor Swift & The Streaming Debate: Why Everyone’s Got it All Wrong
The recent firestorm of controversy over Taylor Swift’s decision to pull her catalogue from Spotify (the ramifications of this covered nicely by...