New Music Business

  • Do-It-Yourself Bluegrass Biz

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    While there are independent artists in virtually all genres of music, and there are resources for learning to manage your career as an indie artist, each genre has its own distinguishing peculiarities. From bluegrass festivals, to coffee shop jam sessions,

  • Bluegrass A La Carte (3/27)

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    HEAR music, LIKE music, BUY music It’s so simple and obvious. It’s always been true. It only happens that way, and it only happens in that order. If your online music strategy doesn’t follow that universal truth, then you’re only making

  • NMB: The Long Tail

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    This is the third in a series of articles about The New Music Business. Before I undertook the writing of this series on music business I wrote about the decline of CD sales and mentioned a book called The Long Tail.

  • NMB: Dropping DRM

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    This is the second in a series of article about The New Music Business. I've been a bit out of pocket this week as I'm on vacation, but even so I noticed the news concerning EMI's decision to license DRM free

  • NMB: Death of the CD

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    This is the first in a series of article about The New Music Business. To get us started on this topic of The New Music Business I'd thought we talk about an article that appeared in the New York Times a

  • The New Music Business

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    A lot has been said recently about the business of music here on Bluegrass Today. We have covered the recent changes in copyright legislation surrounding internet broadcasting. We've also recently talked about the decline in sales of physical CDs in