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Guess everyone’s got a price tag, including the Beastie Boys. The Beastie Boys have long been adamant about keeping their music off of advertisements, despite the guaranteed financial windfall. The group has even sued multiple brands to scrub their music from spots, while refusing to license any and all high-priced offers. One legal battle, […]
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Spotify is serving a playlist of media manipulation and Wall Street securities fraud, according to some ugly accusations. Staunch artist activist David Lowery is fighting Spotify, Goldman Sachs, HFA, and the NMPA to the bitter end, with a $200 million lawsuit wavering in the wind. After Digital Music News effectively declared his contentious class action […]
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Welcome to the second part of our ongoing series on the ‘mechanics behind the mechanical royalties’… These articles aim at lifting the curtain on one of the most discussed sources of revenue in the music industry. In case you haven’t read the first part covering the basics on what mechanical royalties are and aren’t, I’d […]
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$5 million later, Spotify seems to be walking away clean. It now looks like Spotify is soundly defeating a $200 million class action lawsuit from songwriters and publishers. Initially, Spotify faced a scary, $150 million class action lawsuit driven by longtime artist advocate David Lowery, an estimate that ultimately trickled upward towards $200 million. But quick-n-crafty […]
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Some bands are banning cellphones from their shows. Slipknot has a different approach. As live concerts become the most important revenue generator for artists, a lot of controversy now surrounds the use of phones at those shows. Some bands are cool with it, others hate looking out at a crowd that can’t stop text, filming, […]
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A commentary about race, music, and soul. My inspiration for writing this post came long before Jesse Williams’ groundbreaking BET Awards Speech. It came long before Justin Timberlake’s misguided Twitter reaction. The inspiration comes from years of feeling awkward whenever I would sing and hear someone say, “Oh that white boy got soul.” It comes from […]
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This isn’t a black and white thing. It’s an Alton Sterling thing. We were first drawn to the situation surrounding Alton Sterling because he was selling CDs and DVDs (probably illegally) outside a local convenience store in Baton Rouge. CDs, even illegal ones, still sell in the US, but of course that wasn’t the reason […]
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Morning Joe can compound hearing loss. Drinking caffeine can dramatically affect the body’s ability to recover from hearing damage, according to a strange study just released. Specifically, the study concluded that caffeine can seriously impair the body’s ability to recover from short-term hearing loss after extremely loud events (like loud concerts, firing guns, etc.) Even worse, caffeine consumption can […]
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It’s official: 2016 is the year that killed music downloads. Last month, sources pointed Digital Music News to double-digit declines in music download sales, with drops potentially exceeding 20 percent year-on-year. But actual figures released early this morning show a sharper drop than imagined. According to Nielsen Soundscan first-half figures, music downloads dropped an astounding 23.9%, […]
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“We were part of people’s lives because music was part of people’s lives” –Russ Solomon, Tower Records founder I’m 30,000 feet in the air balling my eyes out because everyone on screen is as well. The people in this Delta provided documentary are discussing the demise of a company that had been a part of […]
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