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? […]
Are Virtual Artists Really the Future of Music?
April 17, 2012 By 23 Comments
Sunday night at Coachella Festival Snoop Dog and Dr. Dre brought Tupac Shakur back from the dead to perform live with them onstage as a hologram. Holy Smokes. He appears on stage and greats the audience with “Yeah, you know what the fuck this is … What up Dre? … What up Snoop? … What the […]
Words of Wisdom from Roger McNamee
July 27, 2011 By 6 Comments
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 […]
My Midem and Namm Presentations on the Future of Music
January 24, 2011 By 8 Comments
In this presentation I take a look at the music business from the perspective of the creative people working in it, the artists, songwriters and producers and how it works for them. After all that is where music comes from. I also highlight some case studies of what is working in alternative business models and […]
What’s working in music today
October 19, 2010 By 5 Comments
From the Economist “The music business is surprisingly healthy, and becoming more so. Will Page of PRS for Music, which collects royalties on behalf of writers and publishers, has added up the entire British music business. He reckons it turned over £3.9 billion ($6.1 billion) in 2009, 5% more than in 2008. It was the […]
New Artist Model
October 21, 2007 By 23 Comments
It used to cost a lot of money to record and promote new music. Artists struggled like hell to find a patron to support them (i.e. a label). Everything was controlled and only a few artists became stars. That was the major label system. Most artists learned quickly when the recording advance money ran out […]
