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A Quickie: XBox Music Royalties 14 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm
Just a quick “what’s streaming worth to ya?” update. I don’t believe I mentioned XBox Music before (and frankly, I wasn’t even aware such a service existed), but exist they do and we’ve actually got s...
Bomb Chilling Effects 7 Aug 2013 | 03:04 am
Here’s an idea for a fun project, y’know, one of those “meet a fellow creator” kind of affairs. Why not get everyone in the creative industries together, pick a nice date and carpet-bomb Chilling Effe...
Copyright: The Inverted Human Pyramid 6 Aug 2013 | 03:20 pm
You are no doubt aware of the hearings currently being undertaken by the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet – part of a major review of existin...
The Found Sale 5 Aug 2013 | 04:38 pm
I’m taking some time off work for the next couple of weeks and I thought I’d use the opportunity to actually write something. It so happens I’ve had a lot of old-school TCM stuff going through my mind...
Privacy and Anonymity 11 Jun 2013 | 09:50 pm
Here’s something I’ve been inching towards for some time that seems strangely appropriate now, what with the whole PRISM brouhaha. Before I get on to what I want to write about today, let me just go o...
Market Slippage 10 Jun 2013 | 10:16 pm
Yes, I know that I said previously I wasn’t going to be doing music biz commentary anymore, but there are times when I really want to talk about some industry-related stuff. Besides, I still have Cyni...
The Right Questions 8 Jun 2013 | 12:39 am
It’s been real quiet around here for a while now and many reasons – some of them good, some of them less so. This got me thinking about the future of The Cynical Musician and the more I do, the more I...
We Now Resume Regular Service (Hopefully) 23 May 2013 | 02:54 am
I’d like to issue a brief apology to anyone who may have experienced difficulties in using The Cynical Musician – especially anyone who tried to leave a comment – within the past week or so. It seems ...
Digital Royalties Update – First-ever YouTube and Highest-ever Spotify 2 Mar 2013 | 03:15 pm
I keep coming back to the issue of digital royalties and how much I’m getting paid per transaction every now and again, mostly to note any interesting developments. Today I had a peek at my CD Baby ac...
The Musical Supermarket 1 Mar 2013 | 10:50 pm
You may be hearing good tidings coming from here and there, with the general gist being that the period of free-fall in the music industry has finally come to an end. Given that it’s been going on for...
