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Berkleemusic’s online classes start next week. Learn about music, the future and your part in it. Study with Berklee faculty from anywhere in the world. Improve your skills and become part of an online community of like-minded musicians. Learn to navigate the emerging digital music business, and gain effective techniques in publishing, marketing, management, touring, music supervision, […]
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 […]
Netflix — the poster child for premium Internet video services — was birthed by iTunes and other online music services before it. Yes, movies and music are fundamentally different forms of media, but the online video guys can learn a lot from the transformation of the music business. What works and what doesn’t. Peter Csathy […]
Roger McNamee is probably the coolest investor I know. He has called it right so many, many times and just did it again with Facebook. You have to pay attention to him. I have been “schooled” by him on more than one occassion and for that I am eternally grateful. Here are his thoughts on […]
You gotta love Neil’s honesty. We owe it all to artists to stand up to what they believe in and drive us forward. Without them, we would have nothing. “Still the searcher must ride the dark horse Racing alone in his fright.” “I’m finding that I have a little bit of trouble with the quality […]
My friend Roger McNamee, a founding Partner and Managing Director of Elevation Partners has been getting some great press lately on his thoughts on the new music business, investing in technology, Apple, Google, Facebook and much more. Here is the transcript of a speech he gave at NARM earlier this summer, a must read. “Our […]
Well, we finally have it. Music like water raining down from the sky. iCloud. For slightly more than $2/mo everybody will soon have access to all the music they can find, steal, share, rip, produce, morph or buy using iTunes Match. Is this amnesty for all the music pirates? I hope so. As we predicted […]
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