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Music, Economics, and Beyond

oparadio — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 16:53:23 +0000

The whole point of digital music is the risk-free grazing” Cory Doctorow, Canadian journalist and co-editor and of the off-beat blog Boing Boing, is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available [...]

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Practice in Public Makes Perfect: how playing for your fans makes you better

oparadio — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 19:55:12 +0000

Price, 57, has played music nearly her whole life, starting with piano when she was five years old. But in the fall of 2009, the guitar was still something of mystery to her. She had been playing for only a couple of months and was struggling a bit with the [...]

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The Complete Definition Of The Music

oparadio — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:51:57 +0000

Music is a form of art that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. It is normally expressed in terms of pitch (which includes melody and harmony), rhythm (which includes tempo and meter), and the quality of sound (which includes timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture). Music may also involve complex [...]

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Portland EDM Greats Announce Break Up

oparadio — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:42:16 +0000

The group announced the disbandment on Facebook with an official statement, followed by a more personal one from founder and singer John Monster saying the decision rested on his shoulders. If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and [...]

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4 Things That Kill Your Chances For Music Career Success

oparadio — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 16:54:34 +0000

What do you believe is the number one thing that musicians are doing to ruin their chances at succeeding in the music industry? Is it: not practicing their instrument enough? Not putting together enough good music industry connections? Living in a city with no music scene? The answer to all [...]

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4 Questions About The Music Industry You Should NOT Be Asking

oparadio — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:55:29 +0000

Chances are, you are already ruining your potential to succeed in the music industry because you believe in one or more music career myths. How do I know? I am sent e-mail messages on a constant basis by tons of musicians (all seeking the answers to the WRONG questions). These [...]

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Living in New York as a musician of the Opera’s Grand Theatre

oparadio — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:05:18 +0000

Multiple studies link music study to academic achievement. But what is it about serious music training that seems to correlate with outsize success in other fields? The connection isn’t a coincidence. I know because I asked. I put the question to top-flight professionals in industries from tech to finance to [...]

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Does A Woman Help Progression In Music?

oparadio — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:23:31 +0000

As festival season rapidly rolls in, we’re constantly being reminded of the continuing lack of diversity on our lineups. With a recent study indicating 86 per cent of the lineups of 12 major music festivals last year including Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds and Creamfields were male, it seems that the [...]

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Skillax Preparing ‘Harsher, Brighter’ New Album

oparadio — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 19:29:55 +0000

The National have confirmed that they will start recording their next album “soon”. The US band released their sixth album ‘Trouble Will Find Me’ in 2013, more recently showcasing new song ‘Roman Candle’ live. With frontman Morgan recently saying that the group need to “change and evolve” on their next [...]

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This Is What Live Music Looked Like Last Week

oparadio — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 20:13:21 +0000

We had some truly stellar photos come out of our photographers this week, as they attended shows from Vance Joy, Ball Park Music, Matt Corby and Groovin The Moo sideshows, with the common theme being some amazing light shows. As Forbes notes, in the missive, Sixx and bandmates James Michael [...]

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