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Immergent launches at NARM: Embraces social music shopping experience

May 19, 2010

On Sunday, May 16th, I watched John Trickett, CEO of Immergent, kick off the NARM 2010 Convention by launching the “ultimate online record store.”  Immergent.com completely embraces the digital world by making it easy for music lovers to share and recommend music to friends.  Built into the interface is the ability for people to share [...]

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Heavy Metal and Progressive Rock – Putting Bodies in the Theaters and Killing the iPod?

May 5, 2010

I recently read two interesting blog posts which made me think about how quality metal and progressive music is surviving the declining music industry and increasing its fan base. Maybe People Don’t Go to Shows Because Bands Suck Eyal Levi’s post on metalsucks.com, “Maybe People Don’t Go to Shows Because Bands Suck,” describes how progressive [...]

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Copyright Dilemma, The Internet, and The Music Industry vs. The People

February 19, 2009

Since the emergence of the Internet, the music industry has fought a losing battle – copyright.  As a musician, I have a unique vantage point understanding the music industry’s complaint over file sharing, copyright infringement, and how the internet has amplified these habits.  And, they are habits. As a musician, I, technically, hold all the [...]

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Is Progressive Rock Really Progressive: Part I

August 27, 2008

I am doing something a little different this time around by writing a series of posts about a topic that I have been contemplating a lot about these past few days – progressive rock.  When I first started thinking about this subject, I didn’t think I would have so much to say.  I learned that [...]

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The Music Industry Fued- CD Sales Fall, Gene Simmons Blames P2P, Kid Rock Bans iTunes

June 19, 2008

The music industry continues to point fingers at the very people that keep it breathing.  Yesterday, Timesonline published an article reporting the continued decline of music sales caused by the drastic decline in CD sales.  Members of the music industry continue to blame peer-to-peer file sharing.  As the transition from CD buying to MP3 downloading [...]

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Music Listening Habits – Helping a Music PhD Candidate

June 13, 2008

Image via Wikipedia This post is to help a fellow musician out. After reading WIRED’s Listening Post helping a PhD candidate, I couldn’t help but oblige. After reaching out to Melissa Avdeeff, the Musicology PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh who is studying how MP3 players and the digital music culture are changing our [...]

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If You Tweet on Twitter, Then Do You Bleep on Blip?

June 7, 2008

Yesterday, I discovered the wonderful world of Blip, I new service offered through Fuzz.com. The craze at the moment is Twitter. Until recently, I really couldn’t understand why Twitter was so popular, but after figuring it out and participating for work purposes it is a really powerful forum for people to communicate.  It allows people [...]

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