Category Archives: Digital Distribtution

Access to Free Music and Emotional Connections

Last week after recording a podcast for Minneapoliscast with Stook, Steve McPherson, Kyle Matteson, Sam Keenan and Peter Lochner, we discussed (off mic) McPherson’s post on the Reveille blog regarding “classic albums”. Stook made the point that there’s such easy access to music now that consumers don’t have the same emotional connection with artists as [...]

Radiohead’s Chicken & Egg Marketing Conundrum

Radiohead does it again. By now you’ve probably heard that Radiohead is offering the raw tracks of their “Nude” single for remixing. A few years ago this sort of thing would not have been possible, but with advent of GarageBand and other free and low-cost digital audio suites, thousands of people can participate and engage [...]