“What happened is way worse for musicians. It has forced musicians to be marketers.”
John McVey, producer, Coupe Studios
“I fear that in general the only musicians able to create a truly independent and successful career are those who had one bef…
When Microsoft piled on the Xbox media channels last year, we didn’t realize just how long it would take for some of those channels to come to fruition. We’re quite possibly on the cusp of new hardware, and Machinima’s app is just now making its X…
Well, it looks like you can soon expect to see yet more information to the right of your Google search results. The company’s announced today that it has begun integrating activity from certain apps into its results, with a number of music and mov…
“I think the consumer is going to be driving this train for quite a long time.” — Casey Rae, deputy director, Future of Music Coalition In 2003, the iTunes Music Store established an environment for downloadable music at exactly the time when con…
“iTunes is a stepping stone along the way.” — Jim Griffin, OneHouse LLC On April 28th, the iTunes Store basked in a milestone 10th birthday. Two years before its 2003 launch (as the iTunes Music Store), Apple introduced the iTunes client as a des…
Whether it’s politics or flamboyant music videos, YouTube certainly has a little something for (mostly) everyone on the interwebs. But, if you’re a fan of comedy, things are about to get a tad bit better: on May 19th, YouTube’s set to launch its o…
These days, music and technology are inexorably linked — from creation and recording, to distribution and discovery, it’s hard to imagine a song reaching our ears that hasn’t made its way through some electronic filter. Being the huge music nerds…
Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. It’s funny how things come back around. When I was growing up in the ’80s, music was looking back at the ’50s and …
The tenth anniversary of the iTunes Store is looming on April 28th, and Apple wants to do more for the occasion than treat itself to a nice dinner. It just launched an interactive Decade of iTunes timeline (within iTunes itself, naturally) to remi…
While we like the convenience of shopping the iTunes Store from any device, that doesn’t mean we want the download wherever we happen to be — just ask anyone trying to buy the Beatles Box Set using a flaky coffee shop hotspot. As of a quiet updat…
