Music is free, and so are we.
The cost to produce music is at an all-time low. The price of music is… well… schizophrenic. A single track can be simultaneously obtained for free on BitTorrent, or purchased on the iTunes store for $1.29. Or you can stream it for next-to-nothing on Spotify, or for a fraction of next-to-nothing on YouTube. And you…
If you’ve ever asked the question, “How do I make money from music?” this is for you. Tens of millions of musicians want to make money from their music. Only one percent ever do. Why? Ask most musicians how they plan to make money and they all say the same thing: I’m waiting for my…
This is a long comment I made in response to this Trust Me, I Am A Scientist blog post which was Facebook-shared by friend and record producer extraordinaire John Naclerio at Nada Studios. I lump the ‘Scientist’ blog in with the Trichordist folks who basically try to complain the old music industry back into existence….
We’ll be remembered as the awkward generation that carried around small glass-and-metal bricks, pointing them at things of interest. Seriously, have you been to a concert lately? Half the crowd is holding up an iPhone or Android device, taking the same grainy video with crap audio from a slightly different angle than the other three…
Reddit may boast the largest community of amateur and professional musicians on the web. Its thriving WeAreTheMusicMakers “subreddit” thread had 55,321 subscribers at the time of this writing. I’m not going to explain to you how reddit or crowd sourcing works, but suffice to say the conversation going on is lively and enriching for any…
