All Music Business Students are welcome to attend! This Wednesday, February 24, at 1pm, their will be two speakers at the Broadview Media campus in Edina. The speakers will be Nate Dungan, National Talent Buyer for the Minnesota State Fair, and Noah Levy, a professional drummer with over 20 years of experience playing with multiple national acts.
Go to www.broadviewmedia.com for directions!
Attending this event will give you a lot of insight into the music business and a lot of useful information for your career.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Record Stores
Record stores are shutting down everywhere with the exception of a few independent record stores in major cities, and people are turning to online formats to get their music. What is your favorite thing about record stores? Is it the instore appearences? The atmosphere? The fact that you would rather own a copy of a CD than a digital file? What makes record stores your favorite place to buy music? I myself prefer certain songs on CD or Vinyl, I like the atmosphere and the people who work at record stores, and I like the posters and CD's I can find only there. What are your thoughts? I really like record shops like the Electric Fetus or Cheapo.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Guest Speaker
The BC Campus has a guest speaker coming in on Wednesday, February 3 and Thursday, February 4 in the Music Lab at 6pm. Justin is a doctoral candidate in composition at the University of Minnesota, and he will be talking about his thesis on Hip Hop music in Minneapolis.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Music News
Let there be music -- and let it be legal, poll shows
SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) – Music really makes the world go round, with most people listing it as their favorite pastime, and one that they're willing to pay for to enjoy legally, according to a global survey.
The "Music Matters" survey of 8,000 adults in 13 countries, by market research firm Synovate, showed 63 percent ranked themselves as being passionate about music, with Brazilians at the top of the scale and Australians at the bottom.
Only 6 percent of people across the world say they "couldn't care less" about music.
"Since the beginning of humankind, there has been a passion for music," Steve Garton, global head of media research for Synovate, said in a statement.
"From the primitive beating of drums, to even before we are born when we're already used to the steady beat of our mother's heart, we are programed to have a passion for music."
This love for music drove nearly four in 10 people to buy a music compact disc from a shop, compared to the 11 percent globally who confessed to buying pirated music CDs.
More than two-thirds of respondents said they had paid for music they had downloaded from the Internet, and 8 percent said they paid for music applications, or apps, on their phone.
Music streaming is also a big fan favorite, with one in five people globally, topped by Korea at 60 percent, streaming songs in the past month from legal music streaming services.
Robert Alleyne, research manager for Synovate in Britain, said that while illegal downloads and counterfeit CDs still plague the music industry, the stigma attached to these activities had largely succeeded in reducing piracy.
"For a long time downloading illegally was easier and faster than downloading legally but not anymore. And consumers have taken to these new legal services," he said.
"I fully expect the number of people who are illegally downloading to decline over time. If it were not for the strides taken in 2009, I would have expected the 13 percent of Brits who admitted to file-sharing to be double, even triple that."
Not only are consumers willing to pay for music, they're also happy to spend cash on getting to know their favorite performers better through attending performances or gaining access to exclusive information or parties, the poll showed.
Americans are the most likely to pay extra for these "member-only" privileges while more than two-thirds of French say they're willing to pay for access to artists' other creative output such as poetry and artwork.
But, given an opportunity, most people would rather have music for free, even it means putting up with all those advertisements on music downloading sites.
Forty-four percent of people globally are happy to listen to ads if it lets them download free music while 41 percent are ok with it they can get access to free music streaming.
And almost one quarter of people globally would happily provide personal information in exchange for access to free downloads, topped by Britons (38 percent), Australian and Koreans (37 percent each).
For details, click www.synovate.com/insights/infact
(Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
Taken from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100128/lf_nm_life/us_music_1
SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) – Music really makes the world go round, with most people listing it as their favorite pastime, and one that they're willing to pay for to enjoy legally, according to a global survey.
The "Music Matters" survey of 8,000 adults in 13 countries, by market research firm Synovate, showed 63 percent ranked themselves as being passionate about music, with Brazilians at the top of the scale and Australians at the bottom.
Only 6 percent of people across the world say they "couldn't care less" about music.
"Since the beginning of humankind, there has been a passion for music," Steve Garton, global head of media research for Synovate, said in a statement.
"From the primitive beating of drums, to even before we are born when we're already used to the steady beat of our mother's heart, we are programed to have a passion for music."
This love for music drove nearly four in 10 people to buy a music compact disc from a shop, compared to the 11 percent globally who confessed to buying pirated music CDs.
More than two-thirds of respondents said they had paid for music they had downloaded from the Internet, and 8 percent said they paid for music applications, or apps, on their phone.
Music streaming is also a big fan favorite, with one in five people globally, topped by Korea at 60 percent, streaming songs in the past month from legal music streaming services.
Robert Alleyne, research manager for Synovate in Britain, said that while illegal downloads and counterfeit CDs still plague the music industry, the stigma attached to these activities had largely succeeded in reducing piracy.
"For a long time downloading illegally was easier and faster than downloading legally but not anymore. And consumers have taken to these new legal services," he said.
"I fully expect the number of people who are illegally downloading to decline over time. If it were not for the strides taken in 2009, I would have expected the 13 percent of Brits who admitted to file-sharing to be double, even triple that."
Not only are consumers willing to pay for music, they're also happy to spend cash on getting to know their favorite performers better through attending performances or gaining access to exclusive information or parties, the poll showed.
Americans are the most likely to pay extra for these "member-only" privileges while more than two-thirds of French say they're willing to pay for access to artists' other creative output such as poetry and artwork.
But, given an opportunity, most people would rather have music for free, even it means putting up with all those advertisements on music downloading sites.
Forty-four percent of people globally are happy to listen to ads if it lets them download free music while 41 percent are ok with it they can get access to free music streaming.
And almost one quarter of people globally would happily provide personal information in exchange for access to free downloads, topped by Britons (38 percent), Australian and Koreans (37 percent each).
For details, click www.synovate.com/insights/infact
(Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
Taken from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100128/lf_nm_life/us_music_1
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Upcoming local shows.....
Greta from the Hush Sound presents:
Gold Motel
at the Fine Line Music Cafe (318 First Avenue, Minneapolis)
February 23, 2010
Doors: 7pm, show: 7:30pm
Opening acts: Total Babe and Now, Now Every Children
18+ show
Cost: $7 for 21+ and $10 for 18+
Visit http://www.goldmotel.com/, www.myspace.com/goldmotel, www.twitter.com/gretamorgan, www.twitter.com/goldmotel, www.finelinemusic.com, or www.facebook.com/goldmotel .
Listen to Gold Motel tracks at www.goldmotel.com, www.myspace.com/goldmotel, or via iTunes.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Indie Pop - A Blanket Sweep
Genres in music are intended to narrow the field of musicians, a way to classify and group artists and their sound. But what does one do when a band defies description, a band that borrows elements from every genre? Simple - create a generic sub-genre. Indie pop, short for “independent popular,” defines all those bands that are popular among music lovers in the underground scene, rather than the generic public. Bands, such as Stars, Death Cab for Cutie or The Sounds, who don’t sound similar to one another but also don’t sound like anything else fit perfectly in this sub-genre. These bands are perfect for those looking to increase their “music cred” with their peers, as these bands aren’t typically played on the mainstream radio stations. What bands do you listen to that aren’t mainstream? Comment and let people know!
Technology
This comes from the tangled web P2P USERS, TAKE HEART: Veteran rock act Heart is the latest group to test out the peer-to-peer waters in an attempt to use one of the news-making illicit networks as a distribution channel for legitimate licensed music. The band is making tracks from its new album, "Jupiter's Darling" (Soverign Artists), as well as the exclusive song "Love Hurts," available to fans via P2P service Morpheus in the form of Weed files -- Windows Media Files encoded with Microsoft's
e chosen format will allow fans to download the files and listen to each three times for free. After three "preview" listens, the file will lock up and the user will have to purchase it via online music distributor Weedshare to continue listening. Once a track is "shared" with another network user, it will once again allow that user three free listens before prompting for the fee.Interestingly, each Morpheus user who redistributes the tracks will be able to profit financially for his or her contribution to the distribution chain. Users will receive payback on a sliding scale of 20% for direct sales, 10% for secondary-level sales (the buyer got the track from someone who got it from the distributor), and so forth. The band hopes empowering users to take part in distributing its music and getting compensated will result in a profitable marketing opportunity. The effort marks the first time Morpheus has been involved with selling music to users via its P2P networks.YOU'RE SUCH A WIRE: MP3 blogs seem to be thriving recently in spite of the music industry's attempts to curb online piracy. One of the guiding concepts that the blogs have used to escaped the biz's wrath is to focus on music by little-known acts, primarily independent artists who consent to fans sharing their music online as a form of marketing. Swen's Weblog provides blog addicts with a fresh angle on MP3 subject matter -- it concentrates on music made by artists covered in U.K. magazine the Wire. The 20-year-old Wire certainly fits into the "flies under the RIAA's radar" category, as it covers "a wide range of progressive, adventurous and non-mainstream musics," according to its own Web site.The majority of the bands covered in any given issue of the magazine aren't likely to be found on the radio, so Swen and others of his ilk -- try The Unofficial Wire Companion -- frame their sites as unaffiliated 'services' to the Wire's readers and other fans of outré music.Then again, the magazine also provides Web-based readers with a home-cooked music trove of its own. Its site hosts a rotating free-MP3 gallery currently featuring the likes of Jim O'Rourke, Kid 606, Electrelane, Autechre and Anticon. Also in its "Web Exclusive" section is an archive of radio programs -- the Wire's creators have been hosting a weekly show on London's 104.4 FM since January 2003. The most recent 20 or so of the 90-minute shows are archived on the site, each presented as a single free MP3 download.
e chosen format will allow fans to download the files and listen to each three times for free. After three "preview" listens, the file will lock up and the user will have to purchase it via online music distributor Weedshare to continue listening. Once a track is "shared" with another network user, it will once again allow that user three free listens before prompting for the fee.Interestingly, each Morpheus user who redistributes the tracks will be able to profit financially for his or her contribution to the distribution chain. Users will receive payback on a sliding scale of 20% for direct sales, 10% for secondary-level sales (the buyer got the track from someone who got it from the distributor), and so forth. The band hopes empowering users to take part in distributing its music and getting compensated will result in a profitable marketing opportunity. The effort marks the first time Morpheus has been involved with selling music to users via its P2P networks.YOU'RE SUCH A WIRE: MP3 blogs seem to be thriving recently in spite of the music industry's attempts to curb online piracy. One of the guiding concepts that the blogs have used to escaped the biz's wrath is to focus on music by little-known acts, primarily independent artists who consent to fans sharing their music online as a form of marketing. Swen's Weblog provides blog addicts with a fresh angle on MP3 subject matter -- it concentrates on music made by artists covered in U.K. magazine the Wire. The 20-year-old Wire certainly fits into the "flies under the RIAA's radar" category, as it covers "a wide range of progressive, adventurous and non-mainstream musics," according to its own Web site.The majority of the bands covered in any given issue of the magazine aren't likely to be found on the radio, so Swen and others of his ilk -- try The Unofficial Wire Companion -- frame their sites as unaffiliated 'services' to the Wire's readers and other fans of outré music.Then again, the magazine also provides Web-based readers with a home-cooked music trove of its own. Its site hosts a rotating free-MP3 gallery currently featuring the likes of Jim O'Rourke, Kid 606, Electrelane, Autechre and Anticon. Also in its "Web Exclusive" section is an archive of radio programs -- the Wire's creators have been hosting a weekly show on London's 104.4 FM since January 2003. The most recent 20 or so of the 90-minute shows are archived on the site, each presented as a single free MP3 download.
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