I was working at It’s A Gas Management/Marketing in 2001 when The Strokes’ debut album “Is This It” came out.  We worked our asses off promoting the album.  Vinny Rich, the owner of It’s A Gas, had managed Ryan Gentles, the manager of The Strokes when he was in a band called The Selzers. We [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) Inauguration day was coming to an end, another dozen balls and the first couple could finally call it a night. Throughout the day, a nation buzzed with happiness over the end of the rein of Bush the Younger and the beginning of America’s 12-step program back to fiscal and [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) Earlier this week the Center for Social Media, a project at the School of Communication at American University in Washington DC, released guidelines on fair use practices for video. These guidelines provide valuable insight as to what is and isn’t allowed under the fair use statue in Copyright Law [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) Michael Robertson, founder of mp3.com and persistent tech entrepreneur posted on his blog today about a new music service called Lala.com under the headline “$20 Million Dollar Experiment to See if You’ll Rent a Song for 10 Cents”. In his post he talks about how the new service works. [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) In the summer of 2007 news that the Copyright Royalty board was set to raise the amount Internet radio webcasters paid in performance royalties hit the Internet. The Huffington Post, Ars Technica, Wired, and Daily Kos, among others carried dire warnings that the new performance royalty rate would be [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) I came of age during the height of gangsta rap. The albums that defined my high school years were 2pac’s “Me Against the World” and “All Eyez On Me”, Snoop’s “Doggystyle”, Bone Thugs n Harmony’s “E. 1999 Eternal”, Biggie’s “Ready to Die”, Cypress Hill’s “Black Sunday” and Wu-Tang’s “Enter [...]

According to a new NPD MusicWatch Survey, and first discussed on ArsTechnica, Apple has for the first time beaten Wal-Mart to become the nation’s largest music retailer by capturing 19 percent of the music retail market in January 2008. Wal-mart came in second with 15 percent market share. The day when digital downloads would exceed [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) You’ll have to excuse me if this editorial seems a little more stream of consciousness than normal. I’ve been listening to Ghosts I from the new Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts I-IV that I downloaded from the official ‘leaked’ torrent on The Pirate Bay. “This collection of music is [...]

(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 [...]