No More Coke and Hookers for EMI
CFO.com: Never Mind the Music "Beyond the digital revolution, however, there’s arguably a much more profound transformation going on at EMI. As Faxon explains, during the growth years of the… Read more »
Category: music
And now for something different
There’s this weird kind of music which you don’t really know whether it’s deep and magnificent or just vain and pretentious. Challenge your ears a little bit and find out… Read more »
How the Music Industry Shields Itself from Market Forces
Umair Haque: The New Economics of Music: File-Sharing and Double Moral Hazard "Moral hazard happens when the actions of an agent can be hidden from a principal, creating agency costs… Read more »
NYT’s Jazz Critic Makes Sense
After looking at the tasteful and ecclectic Albums and Songs of the Year selection by Ben Ratcliff, I wanted to know a little more about him and found this interview… Read more »
Wharton Brainwashed by Majors
Knowledge@Wharton Online music’s winners and losers This moronic article takes the current recorded music value chain as a given basically swallowing the whole RIAA party line), without even questioning the… Read more »
Jazz Fusion Can Be Soft Too
Bright Size Life, Pat Metheny’s first studio record, is the kind of mellow music you’ll love to listen to with your family for a laid back winter vacation afternoon. As… Read more »
Proof that Hip Hop Didn’t Die in 1991
I’m at track 5 out of 20 in Aesop Rock’s Float. With about 4,000 albums in my collection I’m starting to develop a decent intuition for good records after listening… Read more »
Somewhere Between Jazz and IDM
Jaga Jazzist – The Stix is a Norwegian record that doesn’t really choose between jazz and electronic music. The kind of music that feels somewhat cold and cerebral yet manages… Read more »
If You Have a Playlist… Your Music Collection is Simply Too Small
The music playlist, now that’s a concept I never understood outside of the radio paradigm. Why do you want to listen to the same music over and over again? To… Read more »
Progress on the mp3 Metatagging Front
I’ve mentioned Helium a couple of times as my favorite music management app. It still has a few flaws but the developers are working on it: BPM automatic calculation (great… Read more »