Teyana Taylor talks about just skateboarding to getting to her audition completely unprepared and how she goes from 0 to 100. According to Teyana nothing is impossible.
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Big names in music huddle at the Hollywood Reporter's Full Songwriters 2017 Oscars Roundtable Roundtable to talk recording experiences for films, staying true to your self, guilty pleasures and musical experimentation.
Songwriters at the table were Justin Timberlake ('Trolls'), John Legend ('La La Land'), Pharrell Williams ('Hidden Figures'), Tori Amos ('Audie & Daisy'), Alicia Keys ('Queen…
As a film composer, Brian has won several awards, including the IFMCA Awards 2014 Composer of the Year, the ASCAP Awards, and 23 BMI Film Music Award for Best Film Music.
In this video, the amazing musician, composer, and producer, Brian Tyler shares some advice from the experience acquired during a life of music and cinema.
This piece composed by Don Felder is magic and mysterious. Its solo has been voted as the best guitar solo of all the time, and decades after its release, stories and rumors about its background still wander. Here we include some behind-the-scenes from the 1976 hit.
Big Data is hot. Big Data is bad. But is Big Data is at all useful in the music industry? Watch this great MIDEM panel with experts and their views of how they use Big Data in daily business decisions in the music industry.
Who's Investing in Music?
Many major labels report that only 10% to 20% of their investments in new artists are profitable. That means that 80% to 90% of the time, major record labels loose money.
To make matters worse, the recorded music industry overall is experiencing a significant decline, shrinking from $35 billion in revenues…
Managing Innovation in the Music Industry
Ever since the advent of P2P sharing with Napster, the music industry really hasn't been managing innovation. If anything, they've been acting like a deer caught in headlights and stalling innovation.
Indeed, the CEO's of the large record labels and royalty societies have been without an exception old…
The Rise of the Musicpreneur
With the rapid decline of the music industry as a whole, it is becoming increasingly difficult for both signed and unsigned artists to make a living from their music in the long-term.
Only the top 0.1% of artists can make a substantial living. But few people are in the…
Interview With The Guy Who Killed The Music Industry
Did Napster co-founder Sean Parker kill the music industry by facilitating the illegal downloading of music via P2P? Here he is more than a decade and a few hundred million dollars in his pocket later talking about his latest start-up forays. Should we love him or…
Is Taylor Swift The Smartest Person In Music?
Maybe an exaggeration, but Taylor Swift certainly got attention when she pulled her catalogue from various streaming music services in protest of the low royalties being paid.