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In this clip, we get a glimpse into the creative process as J. Cole hits the studio with Queens rapper 360 and builds a beat from scratch.
In the modern music industry, songwriters are finding less money from album sales and more from the collection of all sorts of royalties. Bands like the Black Keys, who spent over a decade trying to break through to the mainstream, finally did so with the …
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Spotify and other streaming services were the talk of the Midemconference which just wrapped up in Cannes. During the gathering, U2 manager Paul McGuiness labeled Spotify as nothing more than a “promotional medium”, while Sony’s Denis Kooker claimed that streaming services “do not cannibalize sales”. 2011 saw Spotify’s …
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The Music Industry is different than the Recording Industry, and these terms should not be used interchangeably.
Allow me to explain.
The Music Industry is a huge, overarching behemoth that includes all kinds of different smaller industries. For example:
Recording
Licensing
Touring & Live…
Apple’s iPad can do many things. It can be an e-reader, it can be a video game console, it can be an instrument, it can even, as Stephen Colbert demonstrated, chop vegetables. We’ve now found another use for the best-selling tablet: Slapping the shit …
By: Ariel Hyatt
Google, in my humble opinion, is the most amazing invention since anything else I can really think of. And Google is not just a big search engine, although it would still be awesome if that’s all it did.
Google has …
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There are plenty of things Siri can do. Now the iPhone’s personal assistant tries her hand at music.
For The Flaming Lips’ new single featuring Erykah Badu and Biz Markie, the band asks Siri if she understands “Wayne.” Apparently not, because she answered “I don’t understand. The moon, …
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NBC will be streaming this Sunday’s Super Bowl online at no extra charge, marking the first time the big game will be seen live in its entirety on the web.
The decision by NBC is based in the theory of the “second screen” experience—people …
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Snoop Dogg took to Facebook to flex his influence by uploading a picture of Ron Paul with a headline, “SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY.” It’s unclear if this is Snoop’s way of endorsing Paul, or just his way of further encouraging the use of marijuana, but he followed the picture …
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We can all agree that YouTube is probably, and by some measure, the most visited, ubiquitous site on the web. The numbers back it up.
According to Google, the site sees 4 billion views per day, a 25% increase since May. There’s also been an increase, …
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