MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #54

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enjoy reading the latest music tech news and have a fantastic weekend.

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Matt

Lisa Rovner’s “Sisters With Transistors: Electronic Music’s Unsung Heroines” spotlights the pioneers who harnessed technology to do more than “push around dead white men’s notes.”

The company pays the music industry a penny per stream on its service, a disclosure it made as part of an effort by music-streaming services to show they are artist-friendly.

Michael Weissman, CEO of SoundCloud, answers MBW's questions on payout models, tipping, and where the music industry'

Introduction – Rebalancing the song economy After half a decade of streaming-driven growth the global music business hit a speed bump in the shape of the COVID-19 pandemic. Live music stopped in an instant,…

In this week’s episode of Switched on Pop, co-host Nate Sloan speaks to Devine, author of ‘Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music,’ about the hidden costs of our modern soundtrack.

For the purposes of this article, we will assume that you already have a basic understanding of what NFTs are. If not, we recommend you check out Verge’s NFTs, explained first, and come back to this…

Changes that had been simmering in the live music industry for years accelerated during the pandemic. It’s hard to find an artist who hasn’t done a livestream nowadays and this has pushed musicians to ask more directly what their fans want and want to pay for. Similarly, games have provided stages for music in lieu […]

A number of streaming services offer "high-quality" options, from Amazon Music to Spotify's upcoming tier. Here's how to demystify them.

Penny Fractions - Happy to be back, folks! Taylor Curry, one of the copy editors for this newsletter, made a website called “Here Before A Million,” where he sel

as music companies and creators explore new ways of sharing their music and connecting with audiences, particularly through live-streaming, they must also rethink building and monetizing fandom.

Regular readers will know that MIDiA has been analysing the creator tool space for some time now and building the case for why the changes that are taking place will be transformational not just for the creator tools space itself but for the music business as a whole. In fact, we believe that the coming…