Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
“…we’re – unbelievably – stuck in the position of arguing with our own label about the merits of having our videos be easily shared. It’s like the world has gone backwards.”
“There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later.”
“How has technology changed the relationship between musicians and their fans? While major record labels still struggle to grasp the power of the MP3, artists, including Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes, have embraced and even found creative solutions around file-sharing.”
I thought I missed the boat in reporting this but Trent keeps adding updates so it’s worth checking back on this veteran’s guide to budding artists.
Seth Godin dishes 14 tips to musicians on the cusp between old and new media. Read on…
Wired has put together an excellent multi-media article about Radiohead’s recent experiment and the music business in general.
Radiohead is releasing their new album In Rainbows next week for any price you want to pay! But they’re not the first.
You now have the ability to download the entire EMI artist catalog DRM-free. No usage restrictions. Plus the audio is encoded at 256 kbps, twice the quality of the current bit rate.
Check the press releases for the full details:
EMI: EMI Music launches DRM-free superior sound quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire
Apple: Apple Unveils Higher [...]
CD prices have been too high for over a decade. It seems that Wall-Mart has gotten tired of it because they are cutting CD prices. It takes a retail giant like this to tip CD pricing trends in our favor.
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The iconic rocker says the music industry has no right to bitch about piracy when its modern recording technology only screws up good music anyway.
Dylan’s pretty tough on the current state of recording. He’s got good points too. We’ve lost almost all dynamic range in modern recordings. But there’s still good stuff out there so [...]
So now we’ve got the thought police in the music industry. Now, more than ever, is it crucial that you maintain control over your musical destiny. Long Tail marketing give you the power and freedom to create your own path. read more.
BPI, the UK version of the RIAA, has banned a twelve year-old singer songwriter [...]
First it was services that provided music, then it was sites that offered lyrics. Now the music industry has trained its legal guns upon guitar tablature, and several of them have already been shuttered.
I forsee all of this ending in a pretty ugly revolt. The fat cats are getting fatter which means they’re getting too [...]
Warner Bros. is looking to promote bands in virtual worlds.
Warner Bros. Records is looking to create Second Life environments for some of its bands, judging this blog post by its director of technology, Ethan Kaplan. Kaplan writes that he wants to hire “someone who knows Second Life like the back of their hand to create [...]
From Wired: Rock’s First Web Success?
The U.K. indie quartet Arctic Monkeys has built a loyal following thanks to internet word-of-mouth, P2P and grass-roots promotion. Here’s how giving away songs for free can help you sell hundreds of thousands of records. In Monkey Bites.
They encouraged file sharing. They wrote good songs. They broke records.
The music industry [...]
Coolfer hipped me to the Billboard announcement that Rick Ruben was producing the new Metallica album.
I found a Pandora Metallica Radio Station and a Heavy Metal Playlist at Blogcritics.org to entertain you tonight.
Have you checked out Pandora and the Music Genome Project yet?
…we’ve created this extraordinary collection of music analysis, we think we [...]
Here’s a great continuing series about digital pricing.
The Digital Pricing Conundrum, Part 1
The Digital Pricing Conundrum, Part 2
Part 3 is coming soon. I’ll keep you posted.
Update: Part 3 is here
Canadian music-management giant defends file-sharer from RIAA:
“Litigation is not ‘artist development.’ Litigation is a deterrent to creativity and passion and it is hurting the business I love,” insists McBride. “The current actions of the RIAA are not in my artists’ best interests.”
Great point. So refreshing to see people speak out that “get it.”
Why Boycott? The RIAA is a professional lobby organization of recording labels of which five labels control 90% of the music distributed in the US. In 1999 these so called “protectors” of the music industry and musicians released only 2600 CDs.
In the war against music file swapping, there have been countless casualties. Napster and Grokster are a few that come to mind. But, even with the industries clamp down on file sharing, new technologies have emerged to make this fight, against such financial loss, impossible to win. One such free technology, BitTorrent, created by Bram [...]
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about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
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