Duke’s Note: It’s pretty easy to find yourself dug in with a militant camp when you’re involved with something controversial. The music industry these days is no exception. There’s been trash-talk (guilty), name-calling (guilty) and uninformed blustering (matter of opinion).
I’m always glad when somebody takes the realistic position. It has a [...]

By: Philip Newman
Kyle Bylin writes about the changing of times, how both fans musicians, have adapted to these changes, and how they’re exploiting them.
The artists exploit them to keep fans interested, and the fans exploit them to keep interest with the artists. Its an amazing cycle.
As has been stated before, there’s much detail put into [...]

by Duke
Artists often make the mistake of assuming they only have to meet the right person for their career to take off. While this may be true of a few, it is always preceded by a history of working your ass off and overcoming what a lesser person might call “failures” (or what Einstein [...]

By: Philip Newman
Streaming, once toted as being the solution to lost profits suffered by music piracy, seems to be stumbling in picking up the slack.
As documented by Wired, most ad-supported “freemium” streaming music services are struggling to keep up payments to labels for use of their music.
Someone needs to figure out a way to make [...]

by Duke
From Look to the Stars:
The National Museum of Hip-Hop (NMoH) will host an exclusive celebrity fundraiser to benefit the development of the “first ever” true Hip-Hop Museum. This Red Carpet affair will take place on Feb 9, 2010 at the M2 Ultra Lounge, 530 West 28th Street, NYC.
Hosted by Chuck D and KRS [...]