by David Bruce Murray | Nov 8, 2018 | Music Business, Rant
Music streaming giant Spotify is routinely accused of shortchanging singers and songwriters on royalties. I’ve been giving them the benefit of the doubt for some years now. After an experience I had yesterday, however, it appears they’re even sleazier than...
by David Bruce Murray | Oct 22, 2018 | Music Business, Rant
As our regular readers may know, I’ve been making efforts to get into the business of creating unique print music arrangements for several months now. So far, my efforts have been focused on distilling songs from recorded artist performances down to a basic SATB...
by Kyle Boreing | Aug 27, 2018 | Commentary & Observations, Music Business, Music Tech
One of my most common complaints any time I do an album review is the level of auto-tuning involved. Nearly every album I review includes SOMETHING about tuning being too high (to the point that I actually started using a “tune-o-meter” scale when rating...
by Kyle Boreing | Aug 13, 2018 | Commentary & Observations, History, Music Business, Music Tech
In 1990, Hank Williams, Jr., won a Grammy award for Best Country Vocal Collaboration for “There’s A Tear In My Beer,” an award he shared with his father, Hank Williams, Sr. The video for the song, in which father and son perform the song together,...
by Kyle Boreing | Jun 18, 2018 | Commentary & Observations, Music Business, Music Tech, Oddities, Recording Oddities
The first time I heard Brian Free & Assurance’s 2007 album, Real Faith, my initial reaction was, “Man, that sounds almost TOO perfect!” The album, produced by Barry Weeks, was slick and highly-polished, but what really stood out to me were the...
by Kyle Boreing | Apr 23, 2018 | Commentary & Observations, Music Business, Music Tech
In our last Music Biz Monday, we looked at the rise of music streaming (and rather rapid decline of downloads) as the primary method of consuming recorded music. We’ve addressed in the past the pro’s and con’s of streaming music as a whole in the...