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Kanye West Heal Thyself: What Would Taylor Swift Do?
Filed under: Celebrity News Is there a more lazy and insipid industry than the music industry? No seriously. Instead of coming up with an effective business model to adapt to the ways in which technology has changed the way we listen to and purchase music, the industry keeps looking for some magic bullet instead of doing the hard work required to evolve. First they thought that suing their own …
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By Colleen Flaherty Killeen Daily Herald
The national music industry has the Grammy Awards. Thanks to Renae Noriega, Killeen has the Killeen Music Awards, or KMAs.
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EVENT: Midem Charging Bands 1,000 Euros to Perform…
Like other music industry conferences, Midem is suffering from lower attendance and sinking sponsorship revenue. And over the past two or three years, this has definitely been a thinner event—and we’ve been going for years. Sounds like a serious problem. So why not charge bands to fill the gap? Well, that’s exactly what the Midem organizers are doing, sort of like payola for a high-end music …
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