MADE

One of the most curious things about the music industry is that despite its rapid digitization, it never really seized control of the marketing/fame aspect of the business from the record labels. That’s the one area where record labels are still somewhat relevant today. Music companies still have a hold on creators of music in [...]

One of the best ways to predict the future is by looking at what American companies are doing. And since we live in the computer age, we should look primarily at what the most innovative American technology companies are doing and thinking. Google and Apple are the major players right now and the game [...]

The graph below really caught my eye. One of the side effects of the mobile trend it shows is going to be the eclipse of Internet access over PC by Internet access over mobile devices.

This is going to have significant implications for the music business. Many people are currently under the impression that the major [...]

I spent part of last weekend cleaning out my CD collection. By that I mean I threw it in the trash. Some of the albums were somewhat obscure and stuff I’d probably  never find in a store. But I threw them all out for the simple reason that I don’t need them anymore. I can [...]

I usually write about the intersection between music and marketing. I want to get off the beaten path a bit with this article because I know that an indie music career is about more than marketing and money.
It’s about your inner spirit too. It’s about what you’re made of on the inside. It’s about how [...]

One story that got a lot of online buzz this week was the one about a 22 year old Boston rapper named Sam Adams who was accused of buying up his own album to top the iTunes charts. His freshman album Boston’s Boy debuted at number one on iTunes, ahead of DJ Khaled.
The fishy [...]

Mobile is the future of communication and collaboration. You know it is because of its meteoric rise all over the world. According to Morgan Stanley, 42% of Americans now own a Smartphone.
There’s a prominent venture capitalist by the name of Fred Wilson who wrote a brief post on his blog titled The Golden Triangle. He [...]