File this one under too good not to mention. If you don’t already read Digital Music News, you should.  This is the brainchild of Industry pundit Paul Resnikoff.  Established in 2004 (I think) this is one of the places I go for my up-to-date music industry info…  Today’s post (excerpted below) is just a taste

Guest Writer – Katie Butcher

THERE’S STRANGER THINGS TO DO ON THE INTERNET…

We’re lucky at my firm, West End Enterprises, that we enjoy the benefits of an absurdly qualified team of staff and volunteers when we work here in Nashville. Our events are generally populated with people who come from great educational backgrounds and have solid industry experience. However, even through we made our home-base here, occasionally, like everyone else, we have to leave. Working out of town for almost any firm can be scary. (No, I’m not talking about shipping your gear…but that can be scary, too.) No matter how good your connections are or how well you know the area, at some point, you’ll likely exhaust your resources and

Full disclosure: I have been a longtime hater of Autotune. For years, I have found Autotune to be repulsive… in pop music it makes up for singers’ inadequacies and in rap music it creates “music” for those who have no such talent.  This disdain has been only further flamed by artists like T-Pain and Lil

It is no surprise that technology has launched the distribution of music into an entirely new sphere of creativity. Since the rise of peer-to-peer file sharing software in the 90s (Napster), the invention of iTunes and its associated hardware devices (iPods and iPhones), and the creation of music streaming websites (Pandora, Last.fm), the potential of new media in the music industry is following a path that will ultimately lead to more opportunities to market and sell music. Although a lot of major record labels and Performance Rights Societies are butting heads with these new outlets, it can’t be denied that, whether it’s resisted or embraced, the advent of digital music is spearheading a new business model for the music industry.

We are on the verge of taking yet another

I Just saw this video and decided that even though I have been living under a rock and missed this when it first came out, I needed to do my job and share it with the other 6,693,254,041 people of the world who hadn’t yet seen it.  (Mildly NSFW …