Mike McCready

There’s a documentary that you can probably find on Pay-Per-View Movies or Movies On Demand or whatever your cable company calls them. It’s called “Collapse” and to say it was thought-provoking is an understatement. If you don’t read any further or do anything else, do yourself the favor of watching the trailer video below.

ReverbNation has teamed up with AudioLife to create the Reverb Store. This looks like a great new offering for new artists and existing artists who do not have the resources to be able to create and sell their own merchandise. As the press release states “Free Service Empowers ANY Artist to Sell Music, Ringtones, and [...]

This is an interesting article in today’s Washington Post about Facebook’s purchase of FriendFeed for $47.5 million. If the author is right and it really does give Facebook a competitive edge they didn’t have without it, I think they got it for a song. What do you think? Read the article here.

The realization that a competitor who is socially networked better than you will eat your lunch has started a stampede of businesses and brands that are jumping on the social media bandwagon even faster than individual users were adopting Facebook last year – when 100 million users joined in just 9 months.

If you’ve been in the music industry for long you probably get asked all the time to listen to new music, provide career advice, critique songs, make introductions and promote artists within the industry to your network of colleagues and contacts; a network that has taken you years of hard work to build. As you know, [...]

Click here to read Part I “It’s not show friends. It’s show business. ” – Bob Sugar (Jay Moore): Jerry McGuire (1996) What will happen to the major labels? The labels were only ever going to survive as long as they remained the powerful gatekeepers between the artists and a mass audience. To the artists, they are like [...]

“In the race to adopt new technologies, the music industry historically has finished just ahead of the Amish.” – Stan Cornyn, former Warner Music Group executive What is happening to the music industry? In short, the traditional music industry has been beaten, battered and completely transformed by a perfect storm of new technologies. It actually started with [...]

More mainstream awareness for Platinum Blue! On May 9, 2008 Platinum Blue’s Music Xray™ was a central part of the story line on the CBS television series Numb3rs. As we’ve seen before in the NBC series Studio 60: On The Sunset Strip, Platinum Blue makes for good and interesting drama. Music Xray is not always [...]

In Spain the government collects value added tax (VAT) on exchanges between retailers and consumers. It’s similar to the sales tax in that it’s an indirect tax that is collected from someone other than the person who actually bears the cost of the tax (namely the seller rather than the consumer). This is gripping [...]

The Washington Post has a story today that was all the buzz within the music industry yesterday and one that has been the topic of heated debate and controversy on various industry email groups I belong to. It’s about Warner Music Group hiring Jim Griffin, (a well known industry analyst and leading thinker) to [...]