Jesse Cannon has been a great friend to PropertyOfZack for years now and has produced bands like Man Overboard, Transit, and Lifetime out of his Cannon Found Soundation. Jesse also has a great website called Musformation, which fueled the fire to reboot his Contributor Blog feature into a special series of blogs called The Industry With Jesse Cannon. In the bi-weekly column, Jesse will talk about select stories that have been floating around the music industry for the past few weeks. We cover music news every day on the site, but it’s important to us to highlight some of the happenings in the industry as well, and we’re stoked to have Jesse put his own spin on it. Check out the first feature below and be sure to come back every two weeks for more!
Kickstarter now funds more projects than the National Endowment of the Arts. A huge turning point for people and an immense statement on the growing power of crowdfunding. This is also a relief for those of us who worried our tax dollars only go to supporting Opera instead of bribing bands into reunion shows, maybe the NEA will take the hint and start funding all those experimental iPhone cases all over Kickstarter.
Adele is the first artist to go double platinum on iTunes. Considering this is the only record that has shown major record sales in years, it isn’t a shock. What is shocking is I thought the only place people bought her music was online at Starbucks?
iTunes has announced a new section entitled Mastered for iTunes. As you probably guessed, this is another major label scam to try to get people to buy their favorite albums again and pretend they can hear a difference in them as they listen out of laptop speakers.
Pinterest is one of the fastest growing websites in the history of the Internet. If you have not come across it yet, it is basically a place where you can make “pinboards” of everything you are interested in. This could be YouTubes of your favorite songs or a bunch of pictures of band T-Shirts you like. Bands can also use it to bond with their fans.
Shockingly, major labels are still trying to screw artists out of as much money as possible. EMI records has been pushing a new work for hire law that will lock its artists into an even more gruesome royalty and payment plan. A great move by fat cats who still don’t get that they need to rehabilitate their image if they want people to pay for music ever again.
PropertyOfZack Special : : The Industry With Jesse Cannon
The people in and behind Man Overboard have been nothing but wonderful to us over here at PropertyOfZack since the release of the band’s debut LP, Real Talk. While the band just released a new 7”, The Absolute Worst, on Rise Records, they decided to play something even newer for us that will be…
