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 […]

You don’t quite get it until you go there. And that’s what’s so great about the Sphere. Or, to adapt Don Henley’s lyric, we haven’t had that spirit here since 1995 and the advent of mass use of the internet, never mind the launch of YouTube in 2005. Suddenly everybody could see everything. You could […]

She’s not going to sacrifice her new album, she’s not going to shoot herself in the foot, in a world where it’s nearly impossible to reach everybody you don’t want restrictions, you want the advantage of every outlet of distribution and promotion possible. But Taylor Swift, as a result of her success, has a unique […]

“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 […]