The Reality of the New Music Business

The raging debate set off by one Emily White, an NPR intern and the eloquent retort from Dave Lowery about the generational shift in thinking about the music industry has been widely reported this past week in The New York Times, NPR, Los Angeles Times, Techdirt, Hypebot, Lefsetz, the Huffington Post. and countless other places.  Here […]

How Will Musicians Earn Money in the Future?

Here is an excerpt from a great piece from Wyndham Wallace of The Quietus on how the music industry is killing music and blaming the fans. This rather dark opinion is spot on in so many ways and raises some very difficult questions about the future of the music business that most people do not […]

Direct to Profit – Trends in the Music Industry

Last Friday I was interviewed by Dr. Amy Vanderbilt @DrAmyVanderbilt from the Trend POV Show where we discussed the changing distribution in the music industry and what it means for businesses everywhere.  Here you go: http://www.trendpov.com//sites/all/modules/swftools/shared/flash_media_player/player-viral.swf Check out lots of great interviews on trends in business at Trend POV.

Music Business Education

Here is some excerpts from an interview I did with Rick Goetz from musiciancoaching.com “I think it’s critical that you have your own website and drive traffic to your own website in any way imaginable, and that you set up ways to do business transactions on your websites. That can be collecting names, cell phone […]

The Challenge for the Music Business

The tried and true methods of creating success in the music industry are over and are never coming back.  The economics just don’t work for most acts anymore.  The greatest risk in the next 5-10 years for music is that no one will want to fund the development and promotion of new musical acts the […]

Insight in music business & management

The music industry is being reinvented before our very eyes. Learn how it is developing from today’s entrepreneurs including Ian Rogers from TopSpin, Steve Schnur from EA, and Derek Sivers and how you can capitalize on the changing opportunities. MPN is my latest project and an online service for music business people and music and […]

Advice for songwriters and producers

Future of music tag cloud

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