Since the days of Sam Goody and long before – since the days of Gilbert and Sullivan, of Johann Sebastian Bach, of traveling minstrels,...

One music teacher noted that as time went on, student attendance at events like orchestral concerts and ballets had dwindled. “The reason...

This effect is not necessarily a conscious phenomenon, either. In a study of first and second graders in a Rhode Island school district,...

If a person eats only swill, then the only judgment he can make is what kind of swill he likes. If a person only hears the music that’s...

All this is to say that the modern consumer faces an unprecedented number of choices for his or her entertainment and media dollar. And...

The music business still counts on “the kids.” That phrase has been on the lips of every record executive for at least as long as one...

Television presents another possibility for reaching the “lost audience,” especially as two things happen: web technology and television...

Independent record labels can create the music that will reach the rock-and-roll adult, and they already do. Putumayo does very well with...

One music industry expert recalls; When I was a kid (we’re talking Bedrock here, folks: stone cars you drove with your feet, birds on...

Nearly 20 years later, the leading edge of this key demographic faces turning 60, and the bulk are in their 40s. the generation that...

Pete Townshend, at the tender age of 23, wrote an anthem for his age called “My Generation.” One of the most controversial lines in the...

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...