State of the Concert Industry? It ain’t that good.
Michael Rapino of Live Nation spoke about the state of the live concert industry and its future (at the Concert Industry Consortium). He says there needs to be more focus on the Fan…damn right! More on this later, but for now, here are some links:
Helping Independent Bands Succeed:
Hypebot drops knowledge on two new businesses that are geared towards Independent musicians:
Music Arsenal offers a service for tracking data and contact info. Hypebot interviewed Music Aresenal’s Jimmy Winter.
Musicane gives artists the ability to offer downloads from their own websites; and (again) Hypebot has a good summary. Musicane has also partnered with Neilson Soundscan to allow independent musicians more access to the charts.
Speaking of new sites and businesses: Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is a term that supposedly encompasses the next generation of web apps and businesses that boast more interactive capabilities.
Hypebot made a list of emerging music sites that would fall under the Web 2.0 umbrella.
Wired’s MonkeyBites Blog ponders the potential of web 2.0, and wonders if the blogosphere web-world is too small and esoteric to make that large of an impact, or if it just needs more time to disseminate.
And if you’re curious about all these new web apps and whether they’re really the next big thing, here’s a more comprehensive listing.
Other Digital Music Notes:
- The European Press has a positive outlook on the future of Digital Sales vs. CDs.
- But will the younger listeners really pay?
…because there’s certainly a lot of youthful animosity towards the larger recording industry and its focus on lawsuits and Digital Rights Management. An “I Hate DRM” site just launched, and appears to be more focused on info-sharing than anti-corporate ranting (thanks to the Digital Music Weblog for the tip).
- Once again NPR is pushing forward as one of the more innovative players in the new digital broadcasting realm, now hooking up with Melodeo to provide mobile podcast content to users.
- Digital music’s unexpected boom genre: Classical?
- Last.fm and Pandora are two of the emerging players in the burgeoning music recommendation/sharing market, but they work in very different ways. TechCrunch has the scoop on an app that tries to piece them together.
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In stead of your link to Sacred Cowdung, your might want to refer to the actual, unabridged list of EVERYTHING 2.0 at http://bobstumpel.blogspot.com.
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Aug 06 06 at
4:53 pm
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