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The Depressing State of the Music Industry, or: How Artists Must Learn to Not Cover Songs Nor Give Them Away For Free

I received an email from Google in August of 2013 explaining how the status of the two cover albums I recorded around Christmas time in years past had been put on hold from distribution from Google’s Music service. I inquired as to why this happened and the following is the email exchange that ensued. August 23, 2013 from artist-support@google.com: Hello, Thanks for contacting artist support….

Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Music fans, RHCP fans, and even football fans were outraged that the half-time show of Super Bowl XLVIII featuring Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers had all instruments miming to a pre-recorded track with only vocals being performed live. There is an outcry of fans who are in disgust with RHCP over this “controversy”. The fact that a fan would place blame and…

Curation Is The Cure

Copyrights, sampling, mash-ups, riffing, cover songs, and everything in between within the music industry is a mess when it comes to legal ramifications, but why does it have to be this way?  Consider this:  A photographer who makes a living taking beautiful photographs of architecture.  He owns those photos despite the fact that the architect as well as the planning and construction crews who created…

Mastered For iTunes: A Step in the Right Direction?

As we move toward the the future and technology evolves at an incredible rate we are seeing higher resolution TVs, Bluray discs offering unparalleled picture quality, and even HD displays in phones. On top of that, it is all but official that the next version of the iPad to be unveiled next week will feature double the resolution. But all this advancement in picture quality…

Parker Nitefly-M

This is hands down, by far, the best guitar I have ever owned or played. The versatility of this guitar is unparalleled. Along with dual hum-buckers, the Nitefly also sports a Piezo acoustic pickup and a switch to choose between either the hum-buckers, piezo, or both. The hum-buckers also feature a coil-tap switch which wires them as a single-coil so you can achieve that stratocaster…