By James Pew
1. Monitoring too loud in your headphones. An overly loud playback mix will distort what you should be hearing clearly, and damage your hearing. Duh!
2. Not listening to your instrument with, and without, your headphones. If it doesn’t sound good in the room…its not going to sound good in your headphones. So start [...]

By James Pew
Another interactive music format comes from MXP4. In their words “MXP4 Powers New Interactive Listening and Personalized PlayBack Experiences.” The MXP4 allows music fans to remix different elements of songs on the fly. 
Here’s the MXP4 widget for the new Michael Jackson “The Stripped Mixes” release. I honestly found it kind of awesome being [...]

A Guide to Crowdfunding Success covers some legal considerations, literature, and examples to guide one through the pros and cons of crowdfunding (a way to finance projects without ending up on the hook or in someone’s pocket). My Band Stock, the crowdfunding platform for musicians, seems pretty cool tool. Do any of you have experience [...]

by Nate Anderson
Rightsholders can’t understand why people who bought DRMed music only to have the authentication servers go dark might demand the right to crack the DRM. Big Content believes the idea that rightsholders “are required to provide consumers with perpetual access to copyrighted works” is laughable. Ha ha.
Full story at Ars Technica

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By Shawn Daley
As you should have heard by this time, the Harmonix published video game Rock Band will soon be opening an online network allowing artists to submit their own music to be downloaded and played within the game itself.
The software used by the game developers will be available to the public via the Rock [...]