
Current, Interesting, Offbeat, Music Biz News Updates Curated from Various Sources.
“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
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For 27+ years as a Music Professor teaching Music Business and Recording classes, as well as being a professional musician, one of my favorite classes was Intro to Music... more
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Ticket Scalpers for a Charles Dickens Reading Tour were called 'Sidewalk 'Men'.
The term scalper was first used in a book about the railroad.
The first bot scalper was used for U2's Vertigo Tour.
Now Ticketmaster/Live Nation are in court (now sett... more
While AI detection tech is improving, SONY announced it has the tech that can identify the original music in AI generated songs by percentages...“30% of the music used is by the Beatles and 10% is by Queen.” Should artists begin the celebration? It m... more
A historical dive into the demise of live local music.
(Note: This is not an endorsement of drinking)
Looking back to the glory days when band's were prolific and there were plenty of venues to play in, packed with fanatical music lovers. Small l... more
I ask anti-AI musicians if they had ever had actually checked out what it's capable of, most say no.
So I decided to demonstrate how over 70+ million Alexa subscribers can now ask Alexa to write a song, by just talking to an Alexa enabled speaker. ... more
After music publishers lost the 1st round against Anthropic and Claude last year, they're back with a vengeance!
Anthropic failed to reveal it had used BitTorrent to download millions of lyrics, songbooks, etc. Even though they did inform the book ... more
ElevenLabs and Spotify just released an album, The 11 Album featuring Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel, and others all using AI in some way. "This is the first known direct deal between Spotify and an AI company to easily and directly distribute AI songs... more
Bandcamp is be promoted as the first major music company to ban AI music.
While Humans rejoice, there's more here than meets the eye.
I do a deep-dive into Bandcamp's recent history, Songtradr - its owner, questions about the new policy, and what... more
This is for anyone who records music, and is looking for a tax write-off.
The HITS (Help Independent Tracks Succeed) Act was passed last summer (2025), but it hasn't been publicized like No Tax on Tips. (Side note...the tips you get at gigs don't c... more
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