Record producers not only had to concentrate on where to edit hit singles, but also had to separate out 15-second snippets of songs for...

For the most part, the companies that made these products tended to be small. They also were generally run by technologists intent on...

Another piece of musical techno-geek wet-dream hardware announced in May that became vapourware by September was the Indrema. While on...

Unfortunately, while downloadable digital music had broken through the underground like spring crocuses, via the peer-to-peer services on...

Say what you will about his music or his politics, Ice-T is smart. When he addressed the MP3.com convention in San Diego in 2000, he...

Of course, just because legal downloads were now available, it didn’t stop people from downloading from P2P sites. Estimates put the...

Some wonder if the record business can come back from these mistakes. Many fear that a decade of free downloads, coupled with the sense...

Nor is viral marketing on the internet the sole domain of rock and pop bands. Country artist Michael Lee Austin created an internet-based...

Todd Rundgren is another very technical fellow, an early adapter of most things technological. In the early 1990s, he presaged the way...

We’ve already established that the record industry likes to blame new technology for its woes. In the 1930s, the culprit that nearly...

The rise of home studios and inexpensive digital equipment wrought yet another major change in the recording business. At my right elbow...

As of this writing, a good console could cost a million dollars or more. With the cost of the audio accessories not included on the...

Four-track recording became de rigueur around 1964. With each subsequent bump in technology, the process of making a record became both...

But as in Miller’s day, it was important that the artists came in prepared. Sessions for a recording were still a matter of hours rather...

Amusic industry expert and acclaimed author, Hank Bordowitz, shares his story about the role technology has played in music throughout...

This led Music Boulevard to start an experiment in 1997. It was aware of the collegiate using MP3 to exchange music files. Why not, the...

Fortunately, there are alternatives for those who cannot get to a record store besides Wal-Mart but don’t want the expurgated version of...

Indeed, the hearings and his high-profile wife brought Al Gore into the limelight, as well as 1984 presidential aspirant Ernest Holdings....

But the PTA’s resolution was relatively toothless – it really had no enforcement power and stopped short of calling for a boycott of all...

Specialty record stores – even the huge chains such as Tower, Trans World, or Musicland – pale in penetration when compared to Wal-Mart....