October 11, 2007 – 8:44 am
Back in the day, recording artists made the bulk of their revenues from merchandising. Herbie Herbert, Journey’s burley manager, was the first person I was aware of who exploited this fact to great benefit. I was told that Journey made more money from merchandising sales and touring receipts than from their platinum albums.
I got a [...]
October 4, 2007 – 7:41 am
If only it could be the DMB…
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October 1, 2007 – 1:11 pm
We talked about subscription versus advertising models for content providers in an earlier blog post. Now one of the biggest bands in the world is demonstrating the “pay what you value” model and the “premium packaging” model for music content. This is the experiment to keep your eyes on.
Radiohead to give away new album
By Angela [...]
October 1, 2007 – 10:08 am
With the cost of a new or restored Mellotron approaching $4000+, who wouldn’t want the plans to make your own?
This week Eric Beug joins me this week to make a musical instrument out of walkmans. The mellotron is an instrument that uses taped audio through a keyboard interface. Finding inspiration in Mike Walters’ Melloman, we [...]
October 1, 2007 – 10:02 am
In the beginning, there was Yes, well at least for my musical awakening. And now The Onion has recognized the significance.
VATICAN CITY—In the first-ever union of the Word of God and the Synthesizer, the Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals voted unanimously Monday to incorporate the lyrics of Yes into the New Testament.
“Let us rejoice in [...]
September 20, 2007 – 9:14 am
Today is the first day in 2 years that New York Times online content is available free of charge to readers. The Times dropped their subscription service in favor of an ad-based revenue model (you’ll see the ad when you click the article link below). The move by the Times indicates that 1) ad-based revenue [...]
September 19, 2007 – 8:40 am
CD Baby is an independent online record store that started its life selling the CDs of independent music artists, and is now also provides those same artists a portal onto iTunes and many other virtual download stores. They just announced how well different virtual stores were doing for their artists. (CD Baby has been the [...]
September 17, 2007 – 7:57 am
It has been said that music is the common language of humans. A white paper by Ruth Simmons on Brandchannel.com writes about how organizations make emotional connections by their use of music.
Whilst music is a powerful medium that can help bring the emotional qualities of products and services to life, more significantly, it can distil [...]
September 5, 2007 – 8:04 am
This is Yamaha’s new TENORI-ON
I want one.
August 29, 2007 – 1:46 pm
As much as the voice inside my head is screaming at me to stop perpetuating stupid YouTube video spam and endorsing the cult of the amateur ascribed thereunto, this is weird and cool.
So I guess I’ll be the one to break the seal on YouTube linkage. I’m sorry.