(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) I love the Guitar Hero franchise. Even the 80′s version that was only for the ps2 and only had 35 songs but still cost 50 bucks. If you’re keeping score, that makes 4 titles for the franchise, to this point. The titles span all major consoles and according to [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) Five issues, insights, and observations shaping the future of music and the music business from the editors of Artists House Music. 1. An Interview with Swedish Pirate Pary leader Rick Falkvinge The P2P Consortium has published an interview with Rick Falkvinge, leader of the Swedish Pirate Party (a political [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) Now that the holidays are over, the new iPod’s unwrapped and all the family’s mp3 collections have been combined and shared now’s not the time to focus on RIAA lawsuits, slumping record sales, or whether downloading a torrent of “In Rainbows” from Radiohead from The Pirate Bay for free [...]