Become a Better Musician – Study Online This Winter

Music Industry

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 […]

Yep, on the road again. Join me Thursday and Friday at Billboard Futuresound

futuresound

I will be judging a startup competition at Billboard’s FutureSound conference this Thursday and Friday. Sign up here and use this code SPCOL12 for a discount! bit.ly/WvqcRg. These are the five finalists that will be competing. http://www.getmixxd.com http://www.playground.fm http://swarm.fm http://www.tixie.com http://www.tunezy.com This looks like it could be a pretty exciting conference with keynote speakers including VC […]

Join me this Friday at Babson Entrepreneurship Forum

Babson Forum Distrupting Music

I will be moderating a discussion this Friday at Babson’s Entrepreneurship Forum on Distruption in the Music Industry. This year’s 11th annual forum is following a theme of Celebrating Entrepreneurs of All Kinds. From an acclaimed singer/songwriter and a young man fighting gang violence through his non-profit organization to a designer/entrepreneur whose shoes are worn […]

Ridin’ with Hypebot

My buddy Bruce Houghton at Hypebot, caught me last week for a quick interview before Rethink Music.  Here is an except from our discussion: HYPEBOT: Your new focus is on consulting and investing. Are there any sectors, particularly within music and music tech, that particularly interest you or where you see the most room for growth? […]

Visions of the Future

Here are two visions for the future, one from Corning and one from me.  The Corning video is from earlier this year and shows their vision for a visually connected communications environment.  This is not unlike the future that Gerd Leonhard and I described in the Future of Music in 2005. Can you imagine organizing […]

Austin, TX – Planning for the Future of Live Music

Austin Music Car

Last month I had the pleasure of traveling to Austin, TX and working with the fine folks there – brainstorming on the future of music and in particular, the future of the live music business.   Here is an updated version of my Global Music Business presentation that I gave at their incredible new City Hall. […]

Attention Music Managers and Artists: you may be owed BILLIONS in unpaid royalties

If you are a recording artist or a manager and have been distributing music on iTunes under a deal with one of the big record labels, pay attention. F.B.T. Productions in Detroit, the producers who helped Eminem achieve his success are paving the way via a lawsuit against Universal Music and others, to larger payouts […]

Join us at Rethink Music April 25-27th in Boston

Our dynamic industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and Rethink Music will give you access to critical thinkers looking to explore problems and find solutions for tomorrow’s music industry. Presented by Berklee College of Music and MIDEM, in association with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Harvard Business School. Rethink […]

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