Tag Archives: music

Spreading The Noise

By Parker Mason | Published: February 17, 2010
As regular readers of BlogCampaigning might know, I also write a music blog. That means aspiring artists, their labels and their PR people always email me new music. Some of it is good. Most of it isn’t. Nearly all of the pitches I get are amateurish at best, and nearly all of them are poorly targeted. However, [...]
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More thoughts on laptop DJing (in response to…)

By Adam Gorley | Published: October 29, 2009
Recently I wrote a post for BlogCampaigning on my experience transitioning from a vinyl DJ to a laptop DJ, which, from personal comments, appears to have been generally well received. But the only comment anyone actually posted on the blog was quite negative and passively critical. Initially, I wanted to tell the semi-anonymous commenter where [...]
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The DJ Edits My Blog

By Parker Mason | Published: October 17, 2009
Adam Gorley is BlogCampaigning’s resident copy-editor, but he also moonlights as a DJ. Here’s his take on using a laptop to spin tracks. Imagine this: you’re the DJ at a bar—the night’s entertainment. You’re using a laptop; you’ve got some software that you’ve tried out before and you like better than anything else you’ve tried for [...]
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The Future Of Music (It Was A Good Day)

By Parker Mason | Published: August 7, 2009
It has been fairly obvious that the record industry is in decline, has been for years, and will probably continue to decline for some time. That’s because the RECORD industry is based on a decades-old business model of selling discs of either the vinyl or laser-read variety. The music industry, it seems, has never been better. Artists [...]
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The New Music Industry

By Parker Mason | Published: January 21, 2009
The New Music Industry Part One: Little Boots As I’ve alluded to a few times here, I’ve been working on a music blog as a side project. One of the coolest things about it is that artists are constantly sending me tracks to listen to and post on the blog. They recognize the power [...]
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On Piracy and The Future of the Entertainment Industry

By Parker Mason | Published: October 21, 2008
I’m a “pirate.” Everyday, I steal. I steal music, by downloading it from music blogs. I steal movies, by downloading them or streaming them from websites. I steal information, by reading it online. Except that stealing information isn’t exactly stealing it. Websites everywhere are giving it away. People set up blogs for the sole purpose of giving away what [...]
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Hype Machine Rocks User Stats

By Parker Mason | Published: August 5, 2008
One of my favourite websites is The Hype Machine, a music blog aggregator. What it does is search through a directory of music blogs, allowing you to listen to the tracks without visiting each site individually. Think of it as an MP3 RSS reader. Start using it, and you’ll become more common with CSS standing [...]
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Believe The Hype(Machine)

By Parker Mason | Published: October 24, 2007
First there was Napster. When that fell, we had Kazaa and a host of imitators. Pandora rose to prominence a few years ago, but seems to be plagued by the same copyright and licensing limitations that the other systems had. There are BitTorrents, but these seem to be only good for popular or newly released albums. The [...]
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