Just a hop skip and a jump (across the pond) to Music Tech Fest: London 2014
Gatherings that involve amassing lots of creative energy often lead to new discoveries, new efforts or new relationships that may not have formed otherwise. This is…
Players, perfection and paranoia of a different color
Stage fright, performance anxiety, plain nerves…whichever label one prefers to reference, the general experience associated with these terms tends to be one that nobody wishes on…
Music: The middle ground amidst the arrival of (more) emotional data mining?
The hot topic as of late seems to revolve around further inclusion and analysis of human emotion and that information from such being applied to…
Fire up the band and lead us to indie-pendence!
This piece was inspired by a question posed via tweet, by web designer, Ross Barber (@ElectricKiwi) Independent artists need to work together and support one…
Chaos and concert etiquette 3.0: The Freedom Edition
What’s the definition of freedom in regards to concert behavior? Is there any semblance of reliable lists of expectation or, short of stopping before total anarchy,…
The Met on the Death of Klinghoffer: Clinging to a half-baked solution for sensitivity?
In a single afternoon, and with a single announcement, multiple news outlets (New Music Box, the New York Times, The Guardian and the Los Angeles…
Human vs. Machine: Big Data and the Artificial Recommendation Engine
This article was originally posted at SoundCTRL.com on June 11, 2014 I’m sure there’s hardly an active internet user today who if asked, would actively elect…
Is the way of traditional fan appeal and aggregation gone with the wind of subcultural change?
Just shy of a month ago, a fellow music industry writer and general knowledge enthusiast, Sunny Stuart Winter, posted his essay on “The Importance of Sub-Cultural Identity,”…
Dying to see that posthumous performance!
What will the music business look like in 10-20 years if and or when holographic performances become the norm…the usual –that they are so expected, they do…
Wouldn’t it be nice…
This might not be a post themed around the Beach Boys but their popular song, with the same title, is rather apropos for what is the…