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 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 [...]

Duke’s Note: Speaking as one with something of a “vested interest” in artists’ embracing of the web, I’d like to apologize on behalf of aspiring producers everywhere. Admittedly I’m a bit of a noob to the new music industry, and I appreciate deeply the reiteration of basic truths that have been taken for granted [...]

Duke’s Note: This is an excerpt of Part 3 in a series of posts by Paul Chodirker, an entertainment lawyer at Heenan Blaikie LLP in Toronto. He is also featured on the “law boys” radio segment which can beheard every Wednesday night on the Toronto-based radio station, 102.1 The Edge.
Limited Media and Internet Rights
The film [...]

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 [...]