By James Pew
This post is the first place we send new Studio 2.0 clients and new Euphonic Community interns to learn about the social web. We always share what we discover about the new music business, the social web, and all things related to direct-to-fan, the long tail and 1,000 true fans with our Studio [...]

By: Nick Ratcliffe
With continually dropping CD sales and the rise of mp3 streaming services, consumers seem to be forced to choose between recording quality and the use of a streaming service. Considering the popularity of iPod ear buds and music played on cellphone speakers, audio quality may no longer be a [...]

by Duke
Everyone knows now that Hip-Hop Culture is a global, socially conscious movement. There will always be times when it is highjacked and exploited by maniacal capitalists, or ridden by unscrupulous thugs with no interest in making the world better (often the same people). Those are the times when the music gets boring [...]

By: Connor
Why listen to the top 25 pop songs of 2009 (according to billboard) when you can listen to DJ Earworm’s mashup of them? His 2009 mashup is the 3rd in what has become an annual tradition – scroll down for links to previous years. Check out the video below, it’s pretty cool [...]

by James Pew
Here is another excerpt from my book Studio Manifesto: Exploring the Possibilities of Indie. As always please leave your thoughts in the comments section. Thanks for reading.
Looking at it from a technical point-of-view, the musician is like a musicologist. The word musicology “is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses”. “In the intermediate [...]