January 2012
10 posts
“Y Combinator, an early stage investment company, announced on its Web site that...”
– Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood
“Consider the player piano. When it arrived on the scene in the late 19th...”
– SOPA, Meet The Player Piano Copyright Threat
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
14 posts
99.9% of Tunecore Artists Make Less Than Minimum... →
Hit Songs Deconstructed Releases Its Latest Trend...
“Below are a few new findings from the Q3-2011 report:
-Top 10 hit Pop songs that feature a synth as the primary instrument saw a substantial drop in number from the previous quarter, decreasing from 79% to 59% of songs.
-While vocal gender evened out a bit during Q2, Q3 saw the gap widen once again with male lead vocals now comprising the majority of top 10 Pop hits.
-Love/Relationship...
All The Samples From Notorious B.I.G.'s "Life... →
Watch(via Listen to a 40-Minute Unearthed 1990 Nirvana Show)
“It’s obvious why Viacom and its copyright lawyers want this change in the law:...”
– Mark Lemley. (via arishahdadi)
8 Most Over-used Samples In Hip Hop History →
Hear 10 Seconds from Every Hit Song of the '70s →
October 2011
7 posts
Billboard Tumblr Top 30
“Attorney Annie Lin of San Francisco’s Brave Noise Legal (content licensing, rights management, digital media distribution, deal-making) doubles as music supervisor/co-founder of the San Francisco Mixtape Society. She posts links to stories like “A Brief History of Contractual Obligation Albums, Good and Bad,” as well as graphics that will tell you “what your indie...
Spotify Needs U.S. Success After Losses Deepened... →
A Brief History of Contractual Obligation Albums,... →
September 2011
5 posts
August 2011
4 posts
July 2011
5 posts
The Gong Show: Venture for America →
garychou:
thegongshow:
A friend of mine, Andrew Yang, is running a very cool organization called Venture For America. The idea is simple, take fresh graduates from school and encourage them towards entrepreneurship in struggling cities like Detroit, where the costs of starting a business are substantially lower….
This sounds really awesome. Who wants to go?
June 2011
5 posts
“British labels are staging a candlelight vigil on this one, but HMV might not...”
– Brick n’ Murder: HMV Annual Losses Approach $200 Million
Material — Do great work. (p.s. We're hiring!):... →
materialco:
Everyone talks about Work/Life balance. But they’ve got it all wrong. Work and life aren’t rivals. They’re best buds, inseparable partners, and both inherently good.
We love Mondays, and we think everyone deserves a job where they do, too.
We believe that doing good work is an essential…
“Like dusty and determined archaeologists, Google’s massive bots crawl the Web...”
– How Facebook Can Put Google Out of Business