Black Day In July
July 23, 2017 marks the 50 anniversary of the Detroit Riots of 1967. The riots lasted 5 days and marked one of the worst riots in US history. Detroit is …
Tears for Fears – Toronto June 19.
After R&B solo act Allen Stone took a shot at warming up the Monday night Toronto crowd, Tears for Fears took to the stage in front of an audience that …
More About Music Creators’ Revenue
The more I read about the compensation that music creators receive for their work, the more frustrated I get with the seemingly myopic perspective of the streaming music services like …
Micro Payment and Musician Revenues
It’s a well writing article, but also a rehashing of the same story for musicians in the streaming world – “The Reports Of The Record Industry’s Rebirth Are Greatly Exaggerated”. …
Streaming Music and Musician Revenue
Very interesting article that follows up nicely to a post on where streaming music subscriptions go. Sharky Laguana presents a case for a new revenue sharing/distribution model for musicians and …
Elton John on Beats Radio
Great hour-long interview with Elton John as a runner up to his 70th birthday March 25th. If you measure musical greatness by hits, over all body of work, longevity, creativity, …
Streaming Music – Where Does My Monthly Subscription Go?
I pay ten bucks a month to my streaming music service. This is the going rate for services such as Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer or Google Play Music. From my perspective, that’s great …
Playlist of Those We Lost In 2016
2016 has replaced 1959 as the year The Music Died. Every year we lose great musical artists, but it seems that 2016 has out done itself both by greatness of those we …