This guy is a well known rock drummer, admired by many. I admire his choice in publicist. This pic first caught my eye, then I see he’s allegedly dating Rihanna. I see Travis Barker in the news every week. Granted, he’s not making world news headlines, he is a headliner in entertainment, music and drum [...]
Tagged blink, dj whoo, rihanna, travis barkerDW recently announced that it plans to move all drum production to its facility in Oxnard, CA. This will bring a close to production that’s been done in its Ensenada, Mexico facility. The transition will begin in March. According to DW’s Director of Operations, the decision is, “the result of an ongoing campaign to improve [...]
Tagged dave grohl, Drum Workshop, jason bonham, Matt Sorum, Roger Taylor, Sheila EDespite the fact that Swedish streaming service Spotify is raising a strong round of funding, Apple’s App Store subscription fee is said to threaten derailment of the companies business model. Without even trying, I’ve seen multiple subscription services complain openly about the 30 percent fee. What this likely means is that most subscription services wouldn’t [...]
Tagged spotifyWhat? A cool record store is still in business? Apparently Fingerprints Records has been build on a model that works and is perhaps similar to the model of those other little known about record stores still in existence. The beauty of this, is that it supports the independent and local artists. Arguably the coolest thing [...]
Tagged Black Flag, Cold War Kids, Damien Rice, Husker Du, Minutemen, Rilo Kiley, Sparklehorse, the Hold Steady, the Watson TwinsI’d been wondering what the state of the sheet music space is. As best I could tell, it’s maintained a hold on to its profit stream and old school model, despite the digital music scene. That’s apparently been the case until somewhat recently. A game changer is ZMX Music, which has cut the inefficiencies out [...]
Tagged sheet music, yahoo finance, zmx musicWhile it’s not a first, it may be a first by a rock drummer. Former RATT drummer Bobby Blotzer, is according to BlabberMouth.net, launching a new informational book series that will include interaction from readers. I wonder if the any subject on anything model is an approach that will work for Blotzer, but otherwise love [...]
Tagged BlabberMouth.net, Bobby Blotzer, RATT, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert KiyosakiI’ve long been a fan of Rhapsody’s subscription model, favoring it over the iTunes model. Not only is it more affordable, it has always offered a variety of plans for streaming and downloading. Apple is in the process of being very Apple in making arrangements for an unfriendly competitive environment (Rhapsody CEO Blasts Apple: New [...]
Radiohead broke ground in the industry with its release of “In Rainbows,” and its online pay-what-you-want model. Their forthcoming album will, not surprisingly, sell by a more traditional model–the price is this. Even so, the band is still doing some unique things. In addition to a traditional download, there will be special pricing for WAV [...]
Tagged in rainbows, thom yorkeSpeaking of streaming music, Google is said to be rolling out its own music service with the forthcoming Android upgrade. DMW Daily The model that I’ve been a big fan of (downloading music) will apparently go away soon; but I’m OK with this. I’ve been hanging on to a real piece of crap Blackberry, and have [...]
Tagged android, dmw dailyBritain’s Universal Music seems to think so, or so says Wired.co.uk. I’ve given it some thought. About 5 seconds into that thought, I remembered that the sound coming from my computer was Pandora. Throughout my work week, which is largely spent working my life away on a MacBook, I’m either piping tunes via Pandora, Rhapsody, [...]
Tagged kfog, macbook, npr, pandora, rhapsody, universal musicLast month, Wilco announced that they were parting ways with their record company, deciding to release under their own label. Check out Sarah Szczerbiak post on Culturemob.com. The story just caught my eye, as Wilco is a major influence in my band Redwood, largely because founding member Kit Bragg is a huge fan. I was a [...]
Tagged chance elysee, culturemob.com, kit bragg, sky blue skyIn a Rolling Stone story by David Fricke, Win Butler describes the moment he knew that his band Arcade Fire was special and destined for greatness. In 2003…Butler was driving up to La Sala Rossa, a hip Montreal venue where Arcade Fire had a gig. “There was a line around the block,” Butler, 30, recalls. [...]
Tagged Arcade Fire, David Fricke, Grammys