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Apple’s vision of iTunes in the Cloud: Is it cloudy enough?

June 8, 2011

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Free Friday: SXSW Edition

March 10, 2011

It was about a year ago that we launched the Free Friday series with the Austin Edition. We head back to Austin next week for the 25th Anniversary SXSW Music and Media Conference. Founded in 1987, SXSW started as a regional event with 172 bands playing at 13 venues. This year will see around 2,000 [...]

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2010 Music Sales: CDs Cave and Digital Drags as Vinyl gains Velocity

January 12, 2011

Billboard reported that US Album sales dropped 12.8% to 326.2 million units for the 52 weeks ending January 2nd. That compares to 373.9 million units sold in 2009. Digging into the numbers: CD Sales > Down nearly 20% for the fourth year in a row Digital Tracks > 1% increase to 1.17 billion units Digital [...]

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Cover My World #4: Best Covers – 2010

December 29, 2010

As we look back on 2010, we see a few loose ends here at MMT, and none looser than our “Cover My World” series. We left left you last September with a list of covers that eclipse the originals. Before that, we looked at artists covering themselves and Amanda Palmer’s ukulele take on Radiohead. Onward! [...]

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FMC #2: T Bone Burnett vs. The Internet

October 5, 2010

T Bone Burnett stuns the audience at the 2010 Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit by suggesting that musicians “stay completely away from the internet.”

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Free Friday: Esperanza Spalding Edition

October 1, 2010

What makes music “beautiful”? While we wrestle with the metaphysical aspects of this question, in practical terms, one answer is “Esperanza Spalding”. The bassist, vocalist, and composer recently released her second album: Chamber Music Society, a follow up to her well-received 2008 debut, Esperanza. Where Esperanza melded jazz, funk, and latin rhythms with vocals in [...]

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Play > Backbeatless R&B/Hip-Hop Groove #74

September 9, 2010

Back on Cinco de Mayo, we learned to play tambourine thanks to Latin Percussion (LP). Today, we pick up a groove from Tommy Igoe courtesy of Vic Firth — another company with a strong and generous education program. Vic Firth (awarded Best-Dressed Male by MMT at NAMM 2010) is himself a leader in percussion education, [...]

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Free Friday: Zoe Keating Avant Cello Edition

August 25, 2010

One Cello, a MacBook Pro, Ableton Live, and SooperLooper: that’s what it takes to reach the #1 Spot on iTunes Classical and Electronic charts. That and Zoe Keating to compose and perform the music. Zoe has taken the concepts she learned as an Information Architect and applied them to music; creating modular pieces that sequence, [...]

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Free Friday: Peter Gabriel Edition – Here Comes The Flood

August 12, 2010

Ok, so it’s more like trade your email address for a free MP3 download Friday. But you’re probably already on Guitar Center’s mailing list, and you should be on Peter’s. (You can unsubscribe at any time.) Peter’s performance from the unlisted (i.e., don’t try to search for it) YouTube video below is available as an [...]

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Why You Hate Your iPod

August 5, 2010

The Paradox of Choice and Learning to Savor Your Music I’ve had a nagging feeling that the thousands of songs spread among my multiple iThings and iTunes libraries are beginning to taunt me. Since I’m old enough to have actually worked in a record store, I can remember the excitement when new releases arrived each [...]

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