Video of the Week: Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra Sing Death Metal
28 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry
28 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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(via the verge) By
It’s a crisis that has left, by some estimations, billions on the table unpaid to musicians
Recently, a musician signed to a major indie label told me they were owed up to $40,000 in song royalties they would never be able to collect. It wasn’t that they had missed out on payments for a single song — it was that they had missed out on payments for 70 songs, going back at least six years.
The problem, they said, was metadata. In the music world, metadata most commonly refers to the song credits you see on services like Spotify or Apple Music, but it also includes all the underlying information tied to a released song or album, including titles, songwriter and producer names, the publisher(s), the record label, and more. That information needs to be synchronized across all kinds of industry databases to make sure that when you play a song, the right people are identified and paid. And often, they aren’t…
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18531476/music-industry-song-royalties-metadata-credit-problems
Video of the Week: The Story Behind The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun”
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Vinyl records are on track to outsell compact discs for the first time in 33 years
28 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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(via cnbc) by Daniel Bukszpan
This past week, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released its mid-year report. It showed that 80% of the of music industry’s revenue comes from streaming, but it also showed that revenue from sales of vinyl records is on track to overtake that of compact discs by the year’s end, should current trends continue.
When the compact disc was introduced in 1982, it was billed as a technology that would render vinyl records obsolete. But while the general public may not have anticipated a resurgence in LP sales, those who have been paying attention for the past few years likely aren’t surprised…
Baseball and Organ Music: How’d That Happen?
28 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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When did organ music and baseball become an item? Every Little Thing talks to some pro organ players to find out how organs and ballparks got together.
The Ultimate List of Work and Study Music
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(via Lifehacker) by Nick Douglas
I can’t work in silence. And if I’m working with words—which is most of the time—I can’t work while playing typical pop, rock, or hip-hop. So I collect instrumental and foreign-language music on a scale better measured by weeks than by hours. Here are some of my greatest sources of background music for work, studying, and creativity…
Read more: https://lifehacker.com/the-ultimate-list-of-work-and-study-music-1836284255
‘Vintage Air Guitar’ Ad on Craigslist
28 Dec 2019 2 Comments
in General Posts, On a Lighter Note Tags: air guitar
Reluctantly parting with this awesome vintage air guitar. My uncle saw some dude in the audience playing this at a Thin Lizzie concert back in the 70s. Long story short, my uncle ended up trading the dude a lid of Acapulco gold for it and then gave it to me about 20 years ago. I’ve taken it to more concerts than I can remember and always get great comments about it. It’s definitely a chick magnet, especially if you’re working the has-been tour circuit (Rick Springfield, Bon Jovi, Kansas, Cheap Trick, whatever). The only reason I’m selling is to fund my lifelong dream of an overseas snipe hunt. Otherwise I’d never let this one go. No lowball offers or scams please.
Price? $799
