(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 [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) It’s a bad time to a major record label. First, eMarketer is out with a report predicting that worldwide spending on music will decrease from $31.8 billion in 2006 to $26.2 billion in 2011, a decrease of nearly 20 percent. In comments made at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) I have a confession to make. I once ran an Amway business. I know what you’re thinking… and you’re right. But I was young, in college, and I needed the money. Amway, for those of you who haven’t heard about the multi-level marketing wonder, Amway is a company that [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) It has been a very interesting week in the music world. First up, Radiohead signed a deal with British indie label XL Recordings for the physical distribution of their CD “In Rainbows”. This follows their much talked about digital release of the CD where the band allowed its fans [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade group that represents the US recording industry. While not every label is a member, there’s a huge list including all of the major labels. Their primary purpose over the past decade has been to lobby Congress for tougher copyright [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker has a problem. The distribution method for media content is changing. It’s a topic that the music business has grappled with for nearly 10 years and one that NBC Universal and News Corp’s joint venture hulu.com aims to tackle head on. Though it is [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) Two weeks after Trent Reznor announced distribution details for the Nine Inch Nails Year Zero remix CD Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D comes word of a collaboration project between Trent Reznor and Saul Williams titled The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust. There are at least two reasons to get excited about the [...]

(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.) I was in high school when Nine Inch Nails released The Downward Spiral. Many of my friends were obsessed with March of the Pigs, Closer, and Hurt. It wasn’t until college that I developed my own taste for Nine Inch Nails. I remember reading an article in Rolling Stone [...]