Random Music News for Tuesday, May 24, 2016
On a plane all day flying back from Asia. This will be the longest I’ve been offline in months, which makes me anxious. Is that wrong? Good thing I finished up filing music news before I left.
- If you know the rules of Eurovision, you might have wondered how the song from Ukraine was allowed in the competition. Now there’s a dispute.
- Bandcamp is doing really, really well. It grew by 35% last year.
- If you love vintage synths, take a look at the new Minimoog Model D.
- Here’s a look at why old media is in trouble. It’s the culture, man.
- This radio station is digitizing its entire record collection. Wow, what a project.
- Speaking of records, Canadian Vinyl sales are still pacing 39% ahead of last year.
- Great article on “the dark art of mastering music.”
- Streams now account for the equivalent of 27% of music sales in the UK.
- Adele’s new record deal is worth $130 million.
- Why is the music industry at war with YouTube? This explains everything…
- …and this goes a little deeper into how Silicon Valley regards music.
- How to scam Siri into playing your songs on Apple Music.
- A whole whack of cool rock’n’roll memorabilia was auctioned off over the weekend for big, big money. And then there was the Ramones sale…
- Facebook gets deeper into virtual reality audio.
