Before touching down in Austin to perform at the annual South by Southwest music bacchanal this year, folk-pop duo Lily & Madeleine received a curious email from their manager. It said that, while at the festival, the two artists should make sure to go talk to a small industry group …
Read More »Album Sales Are Dying as Fast as Streaming Services Are Rising
In 2018, Best Buy decided to stop selling CDs, with the change partly brought on by record labels’ increasing reluctance to even issue them.Both choices are symptoms as well as causes of a seemingly inevitable trend:Buying music is now going out of style nearly as fast as streaming music is …
Read More »Sony's New Concert Venue Is Also a DIY Recording Studio
Sony has set up shop on Mulberry Street in New York’s Soho neighborhood this winter — not with a store, but a pop-up concert venue that doubles as a immersive recording studio offering “multi-dimensional audio technology” for people to create their own songs for free. For the third installment of …
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