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Canadian Music Week Report

The best thing I saw was a demonstration of Steve Stewart’s Songhub: https://songhub.co Yes, the manager of Stone Temple Pilots has solved some of the biggest issues in royalties, data and creation by starting from the bottom up, with the songwriters as opposed to the publishers, who embrace change at about the speed of the […]

Damon Krukowski On Streaming

“How are musicians supposed to survive on $0.00173 per stream?”:  “The Guardian”: https://shorturl.at/mCIJ6 This is what I hate about America, it’s all about self-interest, people believe they’re entitled to a living, and the truth is irrelevant. Mr. Krukowski was in the band Galaxie 500. Their albums were released by Rough Trade. Assuming the label gave […]

Authors Equity

“A New Publisher Promises Authors ‘the Lion’s Share of the Profit’ – Authors Equity is tiny but has big industry names behind it. Its founders hope their profit-sharing approach and experience will entice authors.” Free link: https://shorturl.at/cfwHK Musical artists don’t know how good they have it. After all, they could be AUTHORS! Talk about an […]

Disruption

The two biggest stories in America today are AI and the Sphere, and neither were in the public consciousness a year ago. Oh that’s not right Bob, what about Taylor Swift, and Gaza? Well, the Israeli/Arab conflict is always simmering, it’s always in the news. As for Taylor Swift… This is not a new story. […]