The SF MusicTech Summit brings together visionaries in the music/technology space, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with them
This summer jam-pop trio Dispatch will head out on their first extended tour together since 2002, which kicks off with a three-night run at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre from
The crowd requested “Mardi Gras.” Pandora provided the “playlist” – Sullivan Hall, March 3
The music industry is lost. The labels really have no clue as to how they can turn things around. And realistically, they probably can’t. At least not in terms of putting it back to where it was. After all, when you can purchase the one good song an artist puts out on a new album for about a buck, why would anybody spend even $9.99 for an album worth of filler material? And even more importantly, with the days of records stores all but over, people have no connection to the music anymore. It’s simply a digital file.
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And this now leads to the next problem for the industry. Why even buy that track when you can stream it from endless sites? And since you no longer have the Robs, Dicks & Barrys of High Fidelity or the staff of places like Smash on St. Marks to ask for recommendations, how can you find new music? Are you really going to put all of your faith into everything Apple and listen exclusively to what the “Genius” tells you?
Pandora Radio has been making music recommendations since being founded by the Music Genome Project 11 years ago. It’s not perfect. It doesn’t have an endless library. However, it does continue to expand. And it’s nice to be able to plug in the name of an artist (The Meters) or a song title (Bennie & The Jets) or a genre (Funk) and just let it go. And besides, nothing is perfect and none of us can own every song no matter how many blogs we may scour. And when it comes to the music biz, it’s ideas like Pandora and live concerts that actually work.
READ ON for Marc’s take on the Pandora Radio party…
As we previously reported, we were psyched to see that Solid Sound Festival will return for its second year to MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. As promised earlier this
The music of Wilco has moved beyond the aural realm and into the gastronomic world with the introduction of a Wilco-themed brew and sandwich shop. The Sky Blue Sky Sandwich
