Music

  • spinme.com Updates: Social Media, Mailbag

    Things are picking back up at the music business blog, now that I’m shifting back from book-writing mode and into blogging mode. Recent headlines: Social Media Tools that Grow Your Audience I hear echoes of what I wrote five years ago in Zach Pentel’s dismissive comments about MySpace Music in this Mashable writeup of music…

  • Can Spotify Satisfy American Copyright Laws?

    As we hear more about Spotify, especially involving mobile apps and in-car services, I fear we might be getting ahead of ourselves. Specifically, I worry that users’ fervor for the system overlooks the core reason why similar concepts have failed in the U.S.: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Read more at spinme.com…