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I Teach Guitar to Students Aged 10-24. And This Is How They Consume Music... By Paul Resnikoff - March 7, 2013 - Digital Music News I teach guitar to about 34 students. Age range: from 10-early twenties. So that is pretty much the people that you would like to sell (your) music too, right? Pretty much the kinda folks that (we) try to convince to use legal music subscription services. So what I gotta tell you about them is this: None of them have an iPod. They all have cell phones with unlimited internet. What do they do with it? Text, use WhatsApp to text even more and they sure as hell don't use a music subscription service that is legal - even though it doesn't pay a fair rate to the artist - etc.

5 Tips On How To Break Into Music Journalism By Dan Harfield - Feb. 12, 2013 - From Hypebot.com If you're passionate about music, then being a music journalist has to be one of the greatest jobs in the world, right? You get paid to review albums, get free backstage passes to gigs and festivals and hang out with musicians; well, yes, I suppose this is all true, but what they don't tell you in 'Almost Famous' is that it can be a brutal industry to break into and once you're in, you still have to prove yourself week in, week out or some other young buck will take your place. However, there are a few rules that you can follow that can give you the edge and as someone who has worked in the industry for over 5 years, please heed my advice! Read More: http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/02/5-tips-on-how-to-break-into-music-journalism.html

Tammy Wynette in the studio with cowriter Billy Sherrill, about 1970 The Love Song of Virginia Pugh By Marc Meyers - Jan. 31, 2013 - Wall Street Journal Long mislabeled as Tammy Wynette's rebuttal to the feminist movement of the late '60s, "Stand By Your Man" was actually just a country love song, co-written by producer-songwriter Billy Sherrill and Ms. Wynette. Recorded 45 years ago, the song was a No. 1 country hit for three weeks in 1968—crossing over to the pop charts, winning a Grammy and becoming a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee in 1999. When the entire song was played during the opening credits of the hit movie "Five Easy Pieces" (1970) , a generation of young people unfamiliar with country music was introduced to it. The song resurfaced in January 1992, when Hillary Clinton told "60 Minutes" that she wasn't "some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette." The reaction was "instant" and "brutal," ...

Amoeba Launches Digital Music Store for Rarities By Aubin - Feb. 1, 2013 - PunkNews.org Beloved California music store chain, Amoeba Music , has launched a new digital rarities store. Unlike other services, the company is focusing on older, mostly out of print vinyl. The owners explained: We've been digitizing a lot. What you see now is the lost-between-the-cracks, underappreciated, undervalued (music) from dead labels, (obscure) artists, stuff that we really stand behind. It's mostly in the rock genre, with a lot of jazz, a lot of blues, some country, some spoken word. There are some oddities for sure. In many cases the company was unable to find the original rightsholders so they're keeping sales proceeds in an escrow account and allowing songwriters to either take the profits or remove the music from the store. Along with actually digitizing the LPs, Amoeba is remastering the original records and have about 1000 recorss for sale now with more added every day. Read More:...

1 In Every 43 Venture Capital Dollars Is Now Flowing Into Music... By Paul Resnikoff January 22, 2013 From Digital Music News Is this a simple case of dumb money, or the beginnings of a totally new industry? Because for all the collapse and total devaluation being experienced by the music industry, there are still plenty of people willing to gamble. That is, to the tune of roughly $621 million in 2012 alone according to Digital Music News stats, which now turns out to be roughly 1 in 43 dollars committed by the broader VC investment community last year. The math is a little rough, but the conclusion pretty stunning. According to figures just released by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Reuters, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), total financing across all sectors topped $26.5 billion in 2012. That was a drop of 10 percent, the first fall in three years, yet music jumped a healthy 34 percent. Read More: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2013/20130122investment